From: Radioactive Frog (pbhatkoti@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 09 2009 - 22:06:08 ARST
When I was doing my attempt and another guy was doing "SP lab". his hardware
broke but proctor gave him another attempt.
I didn't know about that but when I went to have some lunch with proctor and
I ask him 'hey where other guy has gone' , he said he's gone home. Curiously
I asked him why - was he not feeling well? he said no, his lab had hardware
problem and nobody is in the STATES to fix it and he will get a free
attempt.
Christopher - normally proctor should give you extra time as the hardware
fault was at his end [as u said] and you went to tell him 3 times.
You did 85% and to pass you only need 80%.
-frog
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Christopher Copley
<copley.chris@gmail.com>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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