Re: Lunch: 1 Person: $1400

I would say cisco should give a short description on why our answer is not
correct if the answer is close to or fully correct as we believe...

this remember about the good old collegue days where lectures and professors
has a power to decrease your marks in Lab viva, as the sole power of giving
marks is depending on him or her..

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:27 PM, prateek reddy <prateek.reddyk_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> Piyush,
>
> Ya piyush youare right! even I was in the same sitaution a month
> ago.... I was pretty sure that I'll pass...But finally I failed in OEQ...
> But I was very sure that I wrote everything right and didn't know what made
> me fail. I wrote to Cisco regarding reread, the reply was re read is always
> for small margin between pass and fail.... but from the report I can say
> that I scored more than 63 in the lab out of 79.So, If I pass the OEQ I'll
> be passed. But the margin is not in their limit for reread.. So I was
> denied
> REREAD :(. No other go... I had to Admit that I failed and move on... Ya it
> was the COSTLY LUNCH I ever had... that too I jus had a PINE APPLE JUICE
> for
> $1400$ ROFL :P
>
> ALL THE BEST BUDDY for your next attempt :)
>
>
>
> --
> With Regards,
> K.V.Madhu Prateek Reddy.
>
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Piyoush Sharma <piyoush_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Well that is another conundrum, I can only speculate, but since I passed
> > the
> > config part of the lab, I do not have a re-read option.. This would
> suggest
> > that one can only ask for a re-read if you do not pass the config part of
> > the lab.
> >
> > For the OEQs, initially it took me about 5 minutes to write out the
> > answers,
> > I then went back and verified them and read the question again to make
> sure
> > I was answering what was being asked.
> >
> > I was done with the OEQs in 15minutes. However, in retrospect, perhaps I
> > should not have re-visited the questions after typiing out my response. I
> > did change a bit in 3 of my answers, maybe that was my achilles heels...
> >
> > I am planning to take one my next attempt by September. Hopefully my
> > last!!!
> >
> > Piyoush.
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Scott Morris <
> > smorris_at_internetworkexpert.com
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > 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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