From: cciestudy (cciestudy@mid-world.net)
Date: Fri Jan 09 2009 - 12:11:53 ARST
What Cisco needs to do is put a suicide booth outside every lab site and
charge for the service. Just kidding.
Good luck.
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Joseph Brunner
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 7:03 PM
To: 'Christopher Copley'; 'Cisco certification'
Subject: RE: Does any one have the # to the suicide hotline???
Its only money bro... who cares? I went through a similar scenario...
I just blew $1,000! I messed someone's car trying to prove the Al Pacino
scene in Scent of Woman was impossible... that you can't drive blind even
for 3 blocks... we'll guess what?
You can't! He was definitely either-
1. looking behind those dark shades
2. he was more likely not driving at all, and being pulled on neutral!!!
LOL
Just do the retake- ask for cert support to get you in tomorrow and waive
the 30 days retake policy...
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Christopher Copley
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 7:55 PM
To: Cisco certification
Subject: OT: Does any one have the # to the suicide hotline???
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)
Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Sun Mar 01 2009 - 09:43:37 ARST