RE: Lab exam in Sydney...

Many Thanks Rick... All sorted :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Mur [mailto:rmur_at_ipexpert.com]
Sent: 22 August 2009 14:57
To: Azhar Mirza
Cc: CCIE Groupstudy
Subject: Re: Lab exam in Sydney...

1. All the exam locations use the same layout of keyboard, so it will
be a US keyboard.

2. Some older version of SecureCRT is used, before tab support. You
have availability to the keyboard mapping icon, so yes you can make a
mapping.

3. send * should be available to you, if it's not, tell the proctor
and he should fix this.3

4. No you can't add bookmarks or make shortcuts, you can however open
multiple windows of IE (not by default, but you can use some
imagination for that :-). If you have multiple windows just open the
ones you'd like.

5. I'm not sure which version of IE runs, last time I didn't have
tabs, but it was quite a recent version of IE.

6. You can't take anything with you, you have to leave everything in
a locker. You can try to bring a brand new sealed pack of pencils and
ask the proctor, but he can deny it. You receive a can filled with all
kinds of writing materials, including colored pencils.

7. If the platform supports it, you can configure it. For the 'over'-
configuration you won't lose any points, but would this really matter?
I would only reload the rack once or twice and if your time management
really depends on those 1 or 2 minutes, something is wrong ;-) Please
keep in mind that the proctors will NOT reload your rack when grading!
So if something doesn't work after a reload, but does work somehow,
just pray that they will give you the points ;-) The only way a
proctor will 'reload' your rack is if you request a re-grading, then
your configs are loaded on an entirely different rack.

Hope I gave you all the answers you wanted and this doesn't break the
NDA as I didn't tell you about the contents of the lab :-)

-- 
Regards,
Rick Mur
CCIE2 #21946 (R&S / Service Provider)
Sr. Support Engineer - IPexpert, Inc.
URL: http://www.IPexpert.com
On 22 aug 2009, at 15:43, Azhar Mirza wrote:
> Hello All,
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> My lab is in Sydney - final 25 days of prep - just trying to attack  
> the
> lab from all possible directions...
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> Few Qs:
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> 1.       Can anyone plz tell me what keyboard type is used in Sydney  
> RS
> lab - so I can practice using the same? I am very much used to the UK
> K/B  (with | on the bottom left ) and don't look at the K/B while
> typing.
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> Is the layout like this
> http://www.redgrittybrick.org/terminals/win95us.gif
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> 2.       What version of SecureCRT is used? Can you map keys e.g.  
> Map F3
> to "\036X" for Ctrl+Shift+6  X?
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> 3.       Is the "send *" command available to send one command (or
> multiple commands) to all the devices from terminal server?
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> 4.       Can you add the DocCD URLs to favourites for shortcut?
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> 5.       What Internet Explorer version is available? Is it v8? Do you
> get tabs?
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> 6.       Can you take colour pens or these are provided during exam?
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> 7.       One last questions: Can you use "Warm Reload" feature to  
> reload
> the routers in 20-30 seconds as compared to 2 or 3 mins; bypassing IOS
> decompression stage?
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> Normal Reload :
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/technologies/tk869/tk769/images/0900aecd80178
> d8d_null_null_null_09_21_04-1.jpg
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> With Warm Reload:
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/technologies/tk869/tk769/images/0900aecd80178
> d8d_null_null_null_09_21_04-2.jpg
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> Warm Reload Feature info:
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/technologies/tk869/tk769/technologies_white_p
> aper0900aecd801778e8.html
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> I hope none of above will break NDA? J
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> Thanks in advance for you help.
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> Kind Regards,
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> Azhar
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