From: Scott Morris (smorris@internetworkexpert.com)
Date: Fri Jan 09 2009 - 16:02:44 ARST
CCIE Base Jumping? :)
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of TCP
IP4
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 11:51 AM
To: Cisco certification
Subject: Re: Does any one have the # to the suicide hotline???
Chris,
Where is test site? Is it on a 20th floor building? So CCIE
candidates can either parachute down or not after the test.
J/K.
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Nikhil Behl <nibehl@cisco.com> wrote:
> 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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