Re: Lunch: 1 Person: $1400 - Try Narbik workbook 2.0 to avoid

Piyoush,

I was on the same boat as you in my last attempt.

My recommendation for this will be Narbik's NEW workbook.

I think Narbik's workbook 2.0 is the best workbook around to prepare
yourself for OEQ's or LAB.

Narbik recently shared his newly written RIP ( 58 pages Labs) which was
simply great

1) Each lab is a full fledged lab in itself. Although you will be preparing
on a particular technology ( RIP in this case). Topology has used all three
babckbone routers, 4 switches and 6 routers.
2) It comes with a great explanation for every single command and force you
to know what exactly is happening at every step.
3) It covers almost every thing in the DOC cd related to the LAB blueprint.
4) Easy to understand and best for the self study incase you are not able to
attend Narbik's bootcamp ( although I strongly recommend)

I don't think OEQ's or Troubleshooting section ( for NEW CCIE) will be of
any problem once you will go through his workbook 2.0.

Thanks,
Raman

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Piyoush Sharma <piyoush_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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