From: Muhabat Khan (muhabat@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Nov 24 2008 - 18:59:14 ARST
well said......... but were answers from ALi about other technical
questions.
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Huan Pham <pnhuan@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Nki,
>
> Well, ... interesting story. I guess he failed the Interview, right? I
> guess probably, he did not try to memorize Testking CCNA braindump,
> expecting only hardcore CCIE questions.
>
> I am not a CCIE yet, so I do not mind the embarashment. I just want to
> clear any doubt I have so I can pass next time. Welcome corrections from
> group :-)))
>
> May I try to answer this question?
>
>
> Q. The network is operating well with no errors. After you complete your
> WAN router install, what recommendation can you make to the customer
> concerning their HUB?
>
> A. If your network is operating well with no errors before introducing an
> Internet link, there's a good chance that it will be OK after the new
> Internet link (assume the WAN is < 1Mbps). There will be some errors seen on
> the router interface connecting to the switch, but small number of CRC
> should not degrade too much the throughput to the Internet. In this case, I
> would NOT recommend to replace the hub, especially in this budget tightening
> period (e.g. for customer than cannot approve $20 for a new switch from
> ebay)!
>
> ONLY if I start seeing many errors, especially true when your LAN/WAN
> traffic ratio in a form of 20:80, instead of the norm 80:20. This may be due
> to your staff spending their time surffing the net, watching youtube, rather
> than using Intranet applications (btw, do you have any intranet application
> in the first place??), then I would recommend to buy a Switch.
>
>
> Q. Ali what is your reason for this recommendation.
>
> The first reason is ... it is cheaper to buy a Switch than a hub! In fact,
> it is harder to find a hub nowaday than when I started learning my CCNA 10
> years ago.
>
> The second reason is ... heheh, sure I know you know it already (why would
> you ask :-) ) is to remove the colision domain in a hub. I would keep
> reminding to myself to remember to hard code duplex on SW and Router, or it
> wont make much difference.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Huan
>
>
>
> --- On Tue, 11/25/08, Nki <nkionlab@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > From: Nki <nkionlab@yahoo.co.uk>
> > Subject: CCIE True Interview Story
> > To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 7:09 AM
> > I interviewed this CCIE from Saudi. He just became one this
> > september and his
> > name is Ali. From basic switching and routing questions, he
> > did very poorly in
> > his answers.The one that really stumped I and my manager
> > was the following
> > question.Q. Ali you have been assigned a ticket to install
> > a Cisco router for
> > Internet connection. The customer site have 10 users, with
> > a 24 port hub
> > installed.The network is operating well with no errors.
> > After you complete
> > your WAN router install, what recommendation can you make
> > to the customer
> > concerning their HUB.A. I will ask them to rplace it with a
> > switchQ. Ali what
> > is your reason for this recommendation.Ali could not come
> > up with one. Here I
> > am a dual CCIE sitting with my boss, I felt my number
> > shrink in
> > embarassment.B What is going on here, are guys out there
> > buying their CCIE? If
> > they are at least read the study guides.B B
>
>
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