Re: Lunch: 1 Person: $1400

Andy,

The OEQs were from the Lab blueprint. I cannot say anything more without
breaking the NDA.
For my strategy for the config section, I used Internetwork Expert's Vol 1,2
and 3 labs.
I also took their Mock Lab Workshop - I would recommend that to anyone in
their final stages of preparation.
I also used TCP/IP Vol1 and 2, along with Internet Routing Architecture by
Sam Halabi.

My weak areas in strategy came to light during the mock lab workshop. As has
been said hundreds of times (at by Scott Morris!!)
Read and re-read the lab at least a few times. During my lab, I discovered
at least 3 issues/tasks that were dependent on my solution of a previous,
relatively easy and innocuous task. However, to fulfill the requirements of
later tasks, I had to change the solution.

If I had not read the lab a few times, I would have spent at least an hour
trying to troubleshoot something that would not have been a creation of the
lab (but my own!!).
I was able to pace my self based on the tasks I had marked. Leaving the few
contentious (not non-core!) tasks for the end really helped me complete well
ahead of the time.

Hope this helps you in your preparation..

Piyoush

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Andy Hogard <andyhogard_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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