From: Scott Morris (smorris@internetworkexpert.com)
Date: Fri Jan 16 2009 - 00:24:11 ARST
But you're back to real life now. There's a lot of stuff that oozes out of
ones' head after passing the CCIE lab! however, in the midst of studying
for the lab, I believe you would have known that off the top of your head
because god only knows what kind of messed up question the lab will ask you!
I suppose you MAY have chosen to put that in a "I'll look it up" category,
but too many of those kills lots of time.
I'm having to rethink what "open-ended" questions around the CCIE structure
are. I haven't had enough to drink yet tonight to validate my thinking. ;)
Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: Bogdan Sass [mailto:bogdan.sass@catc.ro]
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:05 PM
To: Scott Morris; Cisco certification
Subject: Re: Changes to CCIE Lab and Written Exam Question Format and
Scoring
Scott Morris wrote:
> However, if I asked you "Please tell me the default OSPF network type on a
> frame-relay physical interface and what timers are associated with that"
are
> you telling me that after months/years of studying for the lab exam that
you
> could not answer that?
>
Actually, this is _exactly_ the kind of questions I would be afraid
of. Why? Because I recently passed my CCIE RS exam, and yet I don't know
the default timers Cisco uses for various protocols on various interface
types.
Why is that? Because I do not need that information in order to
_configure_ and _troubleshoot_ that protocol (which should be the
primary objective of the CCIE lab exam). I know that those timers exist.
I know that for some protocols mismatching timers can lead to neighbors
not establishing an adjacency. Therefore, I know that when my neighbors
do not come up, one of the things I need to check is the value of the
timers on both ends.
However, I really don't see a situation in which I need to know that
"Cisco uses a default hello interval of 10 seconds for OSPF on broadcast
links". Even if I am required not to change the hello time on one end of
the link, I can still go to that router, do a "sh ip ospf int", and see
the current value.
-- Bogdan Sass CCAI,CCSP,JNCIA-ER,CCIE #22221 (RS) Information Systems Security Professional "Curiosity was framed - ignorance killed the cat"Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
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