Re: My First $1.750 Lunch (Finally, but it's not Final)

Sorry to hear that Mr OSPF ver 2,

I hope you will do it next time ver 4.0 :)

don't worry man you know how the exam now and you know what is your week
areas focus on them and you will do it for sure next time,

off course Scott will help you also ping the group any time we will reply :)

Good luck

SE

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:10 PM, ospfv2 <ospfv2_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Finally i did the lunch, the most expensive ever in my life
>
> hope i don't break the NDA
>
> proctor was nice and friendly, very helpful
> we were on the same desk, its mobile lab, no cubicles
>
> first the core questions
> it was four of them
> u need to make three of them right
>
> my core was so easy, it was ccna level, my report for this was excellent
>
> pressed submit button
>
> then the real big thing, it was there on the binder
>
> for L2, i thought it was easy, until it waste me an hour to found the
> error.
>
> so make sure you read your L2 diagram carefully
>
> what you see is not what you think
>
> Just do INE mocklabs (all of them), u will know what i mean
> do the mocklab on rack, dont just read the lab and type the answer in
> your notepad
> do it like a real lab, u will find problems
>
> finally i'm done with L2, but some of my BBs is not reachable
> i'm still have no idea how to fix it
> so when your L2 is not right yet, it will cause you loosing points for
> the next Qs.
> make sure you understand what problems those BBs could give u
> and how to handle it
>
> next, with BB headache still in my head, i try to move on with RIP
> the RIP gave me headache as well
> using debug ip rip i know my config isn't right yet
> RIP waste more time than i thought
> finally my debug ip rip is right
>
>
> EIGRP was not tought, but due to my BB problem, i know my EIGRP wont
> fulfill the requirement.
>
> i went back to L2 technology
> a lot of them, easy but it test your accuracy & details
>
> OSPF was easy (in my opinion,not in cisco report)
>
> Redistribution
> not so hard, but...
> again with BB problems, my redistribution solution will not satisfy
> the requirement.
>
> BGP
> i think you know why i cannot get full point for BGP
>
> so i really lost a lot of points due to dependancy at L2/BB
>
> non core topic, make sure u repeat your lab to gain speed and accuracy
>
>
>
> unfortunately the docs was not working as i expected
> Jesus Christ,i clicked the link and it take almost a century to load
> i think cisco better provide the DVD to avoid this kind of problem
> so make sure u don't rely too much on the doc, in case u have the same
> problem
>
>
> i just remember that i always have problem with BBs reachability, even
> in INE mocklab
> so i need to get those BB things right first before my next v4
> but i dont know what is the the problem anyway
> Scott i think i will need your help on this, if u dont mind :)
>
>
> total damage = $1.750+$1000 ++ (for travel expenses) , almost $ 3.000
>
> i hope my next lunch with proctor will be the last one
> lunch with number offcourse
>
>
> wish you all the best with v3
> see u all in v4
>
>
>
>
> Ok Mr President, u make me feel better with those words...( plenty of
> failure along the way)
>
> Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do
> it.
> But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes
> with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you
> avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden
> or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you
> choose to persevere. (Barack Obama)
>
> did he really say that ?
>
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