Re: Failed 1st attempt Friday

Good attitude Marcus.
You will likely smash it next time.

As for Multicast I can recommend the following link.
It saved my butt in the lab.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/tech/tk828/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094821.shtml

As it may be different in the lab, the name of it on the Doc CD is "Multicast
Quick-Start Configuration Guide"

It is like multicast in a can.

Keep up the good fight!

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Marcus Bedford
<marcus.bedford_at_mebway.com>wrote:

> 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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