R&S 4.0 review

Well, I have just finished yesterday my R&S v4.0 and I have nothing
positive to say about it except proctor was OK, which I cannot say for
the other guy last time I took an exam couple months ago. Who took a
lab in Brussels, knows what I'm talking about.
I have to agree with people who gave us reviews here so I don't have
nothing special to add. My opinion is that this new 4.0 is good way
for torturing people. OEQ was really easy and I think I'll pass that
part. Troubleshooting? Lovely stuff :) I've managed 8 of 11. I was so
into it that didn't have time to watch the countdown...after 2h system
just dumped me out of it. So, just for managing between those tasks in
electronic form and that lovely diagram...hmm...at least 15 minutes
take from 2 hours just on that. If the time was at least 2,5 hours it
will make some difference.
And finally, configuration part. Hmm, those nice people from Cisco
really don't won't some new R&S CCIE people :) Totally stupid point
graduation. Just an example: triple redistribution between 3 protocols
- 3 points. BGP implementation - 3 points and the other task which is
literally ONE command under interface mode - 3 points. One easy
command. So, no more philosophy you have to know very well core topics
(SW, FR, IGP, BGP and MCast) and if you know them very well you are
good to go and DocCD can help you with other questions which didn't
have that much points. That was before. Now, you have to now
everything. Maybe two or three task with one command solution can get
you 6 points. Maybe you don't have to know BGP or IGP very well cause
question about DHCP can compensate it. And, not to mention managing in
those diagrams and tasks, moving windows around the screen, etc. etc.
So, in config part I've managed to finish BGP and maybe 2 questions
from QoS. Nothing on IP services and security.

Well, I'm very disappointed. I'm pretty sure that I will fail. If the
exam was like the one last time and with this level of knowledge, I'm
pretty sure that I would pass.

P.S.
I just checked the result and, of course, I failed.

Regards

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Received on Wed Nov 04 2009 - 09:15:18 ART