Re: Lunch: 1 Person: $1400

Glad to hear that you had your strategy down... Sorry that the OEQs
chewed you up and spit you out. :(

One option of course (assuming your answers were correct as you say!) is
to request a re-read. There's always the chance though, that the next
proctor would agree about the answer not being quite the one they were
looking for!

Did you take your time on the OEQs? Or was it a read --> answer -->
move on approach?

Keep watching for open lab dates, you may yet find one before October!
I'm sure before next time, you'll fill in any blanks and rearrange your
strategy in order to go back and take what is rightly yours!

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Piyoush Sharma 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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