Re: Lunch: 1 Person: $1400

Kewl, thanks a lot! :)

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Piyoush Sharma <piyoush_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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