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

What are the issues? A lot of people have them and it seems we hear it from
a lot of candidates. It is consistently a reason people say they failed.

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Anthony Sequeira <asequeira_at_ine.com> wrote:

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> On Sep 24, 2009, at 1:54 PM, Johnny B CCIE wrote:
>
> A lot of people have this problem. Who is teaching us how to fix it.
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:10 AM, 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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