Lunch: 1 Person: $1400

Hey everyone,

So I took the lab on May 27th. More like an expensive lunch....
As you can probably guess, I did not pass. The really frustrating part is
that I passed the config, but got a 0 in OEQs
Now I can tell you that you do not have to look at theory to pass the OEQs.
Nor do you need to memorize the RFC numbers etc. They are based on concepts.
I was sure that I answered the questions correctly... but I guess my answers
were not "Cisco's correct answers".

Having said that, the lab itself was easy enough. I would say that with the
OEQs, they have made the lab alot easier. There were less caveats and/or
tricks in that tasks.
The config is 79 points with OEQ's being 21 points.

I am not sure what I should do next, considering that I did pass the config,
I am pretty comfortable with my speed and every thing else. I finished the
lab with 2 hours remaining and verified all my answers. I reckon I scored
enough points to pass the config part. I was a bit nervous about the OEQs.
The challenge is that the answer to those questions is tricky. They (Cisco)
says that the answer is normally not more than 1 sentenance. But it depends
on the interpretation of the answer.

Anyways, just to let everyone who is preparing for the lab before Oct 18,
ensure that you are clear on your concepts. Things like
what does EIGRP use for metric calculation, what are the default parameters
it uses...
what ospf types are compatible etc..

I used Internetwork Expert's vol 1,2 and 3. I took the Mock lab workshop
that it helped to clarify a few things for me, as well as show some of the
common mistakes I was making. Scott, thank you for your insight on the lab
strategy. Because I read the lab 3 times, I was able to identify some of the
dependencies in tasks not directly mentioned. Those points, I believe were
crucial to scoring in the config portion.

Piyoush.

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Received on Mon Jun 01 2009 - 12:12:07 ART