Re: My Failure Report

Don't give up! The efforts and the work you have put thrown in for the CCIE
is a lot so don't put that to waste. As the others have said, we need to get
back on the horse and fight again! Thanks for lab eye-opener. It

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Nickelby Thane
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On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Tony Schaffran (GS) <
groupstudy_at_cconlinelabs.com> wrote:
> Don't let it slow you down.  Not many pass on their first attempt.
>
> You have a great attitude.  You will pass.
>
>
>
> Tony Schaffran
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Ravi
> Singh
> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 1:02 PM
> To: Cisco certification
> Subject: My Failure Report
>
> 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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