From: Anthony Sequeira (asequeira@internetworkexpert.com)
Date: Fri Jan 09 2009 - 02:10:45 ARST
Hi Chris!
Arrrg - this is brutal. I have heard of such things...although I have
never heard of such proctor reluctance though.
I am so thrilled to hear you were offered a retake at least...I know
it is of little solace now. If you were ace-ing this one - I am SURE
you can ace the next!
Anthony J. Sequeira, CCIE #15626, CCSI #23251
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On Jan 8, 2009, at 7:55 PM, Christopher Copley wrote:
> Experts,
>
> I just walked out of the CCIE lab for my 2nd attempt and I am totally
> devastated, but not for reasons you may think. I hope I am not
> breaking
> NDA here, b/c that is not the intent of this post. Basically to
> sum up
> what happened is I had a Hardware failure on my Back Bone routers. I
> trouble shoot this issue for an hour and a half, and went to the
> procter 3
> times, and nearly got in a shouting match to get them to do
> something about
> it. He finally took a look at this when 2 other test takers were
> having the
> same problem. At this point there was an hour left in the day, and
> b/c of
> the failure of the hardware it would have cost me 15 points. The
> procters
> told me to work on with the lab untill they fixed the problem, but
> by that
> time there was an hour left in the day and I was at best 85 points
> if I got
> 100% on every other section that did not involve that BB router. The
> procter was over an hours tring to fix the problem before he called
> someone
> to fix it. Then after he said he fixed it I tried and it still was
> not
> working. I lost serious time on a lab hardware problem! Then after
> all
> this I was so frazzed that I had to sit and relax for 10 min before
> I could
> start again. Here is the really crappy part, I was knocking the
> lab out of
> the park, nothing stumped me untill I got to anything that involved
> this
> hardware. There is still a very small chance I passed, I hope to
> have the
> results back in 24-48 hours, but I dont have a great feeling. With
> 1 hours
> left and 15 points to make up, in some harder areas I dont have a
> warm and
> fuzzy feeling. I got back to the hotel and opened up a ticket with
> the
> CCIE help desk from the website, but the best they could do is give
> me a
> retake. I have never been this disheartend, and dont know what my
> next
> steps are. Has anyone ran into this before? How did you deal with
> it???
>
>
> Chris
> (FYI - the title of the post is just a joke-the situation is not)
>
>
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