Re: My Failure Report

Dear Ravi,

I'm so sorry to hear that, but Beleive me you will do it, now you know how
the exam look like,

and you know your week areas, work on them hard this time u will do it,

Cheer up :)

Good luck in your next shot,

SE

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Anthony Faria <tfaria72_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Dont give up I felt the same way. I was a little took back when I seen the
> wording of the exam. It is different than the other vendor wording. One
> thing I can say is know the doccd in and out. The Aset labs are good to get
> a feel for the wording. Try not to use the doccd unless you have too. Any
> labs you cant remember syntax do it over and over till you can do it in
> your
> sleep. I agree Narbik is a stud!! The CCIE is like a relationship sometimes
> it sucks but you have to hang in there because you have invested so much
> divorce or quiting is not an option. Just my opinion. Dont weaken Cowboy!!!
>
>
> Tony
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Ravi Singh <way2ccie_at_googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > HI Group,
> >
> > I failed my first attempt at Brussels yesterday and looking at the score
> > report I feel I missed it by just a few points ...I would not say that I
> > was
> > not prepared .. I was very much prepared technically but what I was not
> > prepared with was the format the actual lab is given .. So here I present
> > to
> > you a small report on what are my observations, opinion and
> recommendations
> > about the lab ..This is just my opinion of how I felt so it is totally
> upto
> > you how you take it..there may be people agreeing to this ..there will be
> > lots of them not agreeing to it ..
> >
> > PREPARATION
> > 1) If you think you will focus on just the core topics and will manage
> the
> > non-core ones...you may be proved wrong on your lab day ..I'd suggest you
> > should know every part of the blueprint in-and-out ..I learnt it the hard
> > way ..
> >
> > 2) Whichever vendor's workbooks you are doing do it only to understand
> the
> > technology and concepts..If you are doing the full scale labs to build
> your
> > strategy/speed or whatever for the actual lab, no matter whatever
> > difficulty
> > level it is, it won't help much because the actual lab is not formatted
> > that
> > way ..In fact if you have completed all the labs that a particular vendor
> > has and you can now complete any lab that vendor gives you, you will
> > definitely pass an exam that is that vendor's own certification but not
> > Cisco because you haven't had a taste of the actual lab ..But since
> > practice
> > is also one of the keys to passing the lab , the labs may be helpful in
> > some
> > sense who knows ..
> >
> > OBSERVATION on the LAB
> > 3) Due to the NDA constraints the only thing I can say is remember point
> 1
> > above..
> >
> > RECOMMENDATION/ADVICE
> > Since I haven't passed the exam I cannot really recommend anything but
> for
> > people who would still like to know ..here is some advice/recommendation
> >
> > 4) For the learning material I found Narbik's workbooks the best because
> > they explain the technology very clearly and in a very simple and
> straight
> > forward manner..I mean if ARP ,for example , can be explained using two
> > routers why go and build an enterprise network setup for it..Narbik's
> > bootcamp is also highly recommended because the guy knows the value of
> your
> > money..It would have hurt me more if I would have failed the exam after
> > taking a 5000$ bootcamp and some 1000$ workbooks ..During the preparation
> > for this attempt Narbik had been a great mentor and a very good friend
> who
> > had helped me more than he actually could ..Narbik, I am sorry to
> > disappoint
> > you on not passing the lab but I am personally very satisfied that your
> > mentorship had helped me so much in the exam that I was really not
> worried
> > about the technical difficulty of the questions being put in..
> >
> > NEXT-STEP
> > 5) I still haven't decided anything on it yet, because all these gone
> days
> > and months when I used to study in my room and my 15 month old daughter
> > came
> > to me asking me to play with her I would have to turn her away on the
> > pretext that I would surely spend time with her soon..And now when I see
> > her
> > face I just don't get the courage of doing the same thing again ..Its
> just
> > one day that has passed so once I get over the "loser syndrome" , I would
> > think about it...I am not gonna give up so easily ...
> >
> > LAST FEW WORDS
> > 6) As I mentioned initially there will be loads of people saying .." He
> is
> > just a whiner ..had he been technically prepared he would have passed
> the
> > lab " but according to my score report I scored a 100% in what everyone
> > calls the core topics and the OEQs..What took me to doom was two things
> > a) even though I had a strategy/plan etc. ready for the lab it didn't
> > actually work because it was not made while doing any labs of that
> > calibre..
> > b) Point No. 1 of this email
> >
> >
> > Now for people who have passed the lab,,it's easy to say that failure is
> a
> > part of the journey or stuff like that..but for people who failed nothing
> > can be more consoling than the CCIE number in the signature..I anyhow
> > accept
> > that in my failure it was nobody else's fault than mine so I would now
> need
> > to work much harder and rise back from the ashes ;-)
> >
> > I forgot to add that this forum is still the best place to be for the lab
> > prep..and I would in anycase would like to thank people who are a member
> of
> > this forum ..Keep up the good work guys
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ravi
> >
> >
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