RE: Failed 1st attempt Friday

Like pretty, smart, single, educated women our age, Lab seats become available
DAILY.

Keep looking...

I have picked up both kinds of "dates" at the last minute, when I least
expected it...

The 28 day rule will kick in and smash some guys little Capital One Visa card
with a $1415 limit... his date will be dropped... Take and enjoy

-Joe

From: Ramanpreet Singh [mailto:sikandar.raman_at_gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 11:44 AM
To: Joseph L. Brunner
Cc: Marcus Bedford; ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: Failed 1st attempt Friday

Joe,

You are probably right in your suggestion but there are no dates available (
at least in US) before October 18th. I think for people like Marcus and me, we
only have a option for CCIEv4 which should be doable by the time-frame
mentioned by Marcus.

Marcus,

Hang in there my friend, you will be CCIE pretty soon.

Thanks,
Raman
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Joseph L. Brunner
<joe_at_affirmedsystems.com<mailto:joe_at_affirmedsystems.com>> wrote:
Marcus,

Itb s a process, not a single event to become a CCIE.

I donb t think you should wait so long for your retake.

I think your next retake should come in Sept.

I think you should dive back in, perhaps go over the "Tech" with one of us...
I would be more than happy to get you some webex training sessions with me,
gratis.
Lots of this stuff is quite easy, personally I was underwhelmed by the NON
switching/routing stuff in there... There were some questions that I thought
were canned, and
IT SEEMED CISCO LET A CCNA WRITE PART OF THE LAB

Unicast me and I'll be happy to work with you to "affirm" you
qos/multicast/security facets when you're ready to get back on the horse.

GRIN:)

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com<mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com>
[mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com<mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com>] On Behalf Of
Marcus Bedford
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 11:31 AM
To: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com<mailto:ccielab_at_groupstudy.com>
Subject: 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 - 11:46:22 ART