Re: Lunch: 1 Person: $1400

Piyoush,

I would also like to hear more about your prep for the config part of the
lab was, what your strategy was?

I see that you were done with the configs two hours before time, which must
have been real great ..how did you tackel this part is what interests me
more! :)

Regards,
Andy H.

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 12:42 AM, 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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