Failed 1st attempt Friday

Hey guys,

I wanted to share my experience from my first attempt in San Jose on Friday 7/17. I passed the open ended questions. I had four of them. Two were very easy, one was borderline CCNA level, and the other 2 were challenging, but are doing if you have been studying for your CCIE. Don't panic so much about those. I think they were inline with the Written exam.

90% in switching, 75% in IGPs, and I nosed dived after that. Getting either minimum to no points. Some partially do that i did not have complete functionality with my IGP's.

I took Narbik's boot camp the weak before and I was weak in Multicast and QOS. I did not have enough time to lab up the workbooks to master those technologies and it showed as i spent much of my time searching the DOC cd for help. The funny thing is, I did take the time to read all Narbik's 2.0 workbooks and I did not get asked a task that was not explained in his books, LOL.

Narbik's workbooks, are like Prego spaghetti sauce, it's in there.

Next steps.

For now, I am taking the remainder of the month off other than some light reading.

August will declare war on Qos and Multicast. I want to get rid of them as I have been putting them off too long. I want to retake Narbik's boot camp in October and get the new materials for the new format and plan to have myself positioned to re-take my 2nd attempt in jan/Feb 2010 time frame.

Advice,
I noticed that the subjects that i felt comfortable in, switching and IGP's(most of the time) I offer my assistance on. Those areas, I was not comfortable in, I would sit back and be quiet. My Lab scoring followed that pattern. I would recommend hitting all core areas that you do not feel comfortable explaining it to someone else, right or wrong, because if you are not confident, you will fail that area or waste time searching the DocCD for answers like I did.

Marcus

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Received on Mon Jul 20 2009 - 10:31:08 ART