Re: Failed 1st attempt Friday

Erm Joe,

I think you missed the announcement from Cisco about their 90-day
cancellation policy. So unless someone out there paid for the lab but dont
feel like attending and cancel, it is almost impossible to get a date before
the blueprint (or topic, as Cisco now calls it) change...

Piyoush.

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Joseph L. Brunner
<joe_at_affirmedsystems.com>wrote:

> 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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