From: Nikhil Behl (nibehl@cisco.com)
Date: Fri Jan 09 2009 - 12:49:52 ARST
That way Cisco will earn even more then what they get by selling their
gears...LOL!
Cheers,
Niks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "cciestudy" <cciestudy@mid-world.net>
To: "'Cisco certification'" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 7:41 PM
Subject: RE: Does any one have the # to the suicide hotline???
> 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)
>
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