RE: CCIE V4 lab failed yesterday

Hang in there! It is passable!

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Stefan Geutjes
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:13 AM
To: Cisco certification
Subject: CCIE V4 lab failed yesterday

Hello all,

I'm gonna join the unlucky ones who failed the v4 lab exam r&s.
Yesterday i took my first attempt in Brussel.

The oeq's was fairly easy.

Then the hell began........troubleshooting section..
Ive read a lot of reviews concerning "time management" before i went to the
lab. I said to my self before i took the lab that i must spent at max 15
minutes on a troubleshooting ticket. I wouldnt be that stupid to spent more
time on a ticket..............?
First ticket, 15 minutes past, i found no solution but i thougt im almost
there.........25 minutes still not working but i'm almost there, 40 minutes
damn then i realised it that i was stupid!!!! still not working and lost 33%
of my time..... then a couple was easy and i fixed them in 10-15 minutes
each. But ofcourse there were still 3 tickets open at the end of the 2 hour
section (plus the first so i realised that that was the end of my lab).

But ok i wouldnt give up and thought lets do my best on the config section
so i be prepared better next time im gonna take the lab. (and YES i will do
that soon...)
L2 was easy.
IGP's werent that difficult also, but was a lot of work for just a couple of
points............ In the test labs i did for internetworkexpert i could
earn 3 times 3 points for the same as on the real lab 1 time 3 points.......
Its look like the put different questions all in one question and just for
that damn 3 points..
Next BGP.............also practised a lot before entering the lab ofcourse,
and i also has read a lot of tips that they say that you must read first the
whole question before start typing.,..... And yes ofcourse i didnt do that
also. I had configured the whole section (at least 3 different questions on
a internetworkexpertlab again put in 1 question) then i read the last line
of the question..........and yes i had to make some changes to all routers
again...
Advanced services wasnt that hard if you had time to read on the doccd. I
knew the technics and the commands but ofcourse the asked something special
so you had to look it up and that takes time. Some 3 point questions in
here was just 2 lines in config (that are easy points......) next time skip
BGP en add static routes en focus on the easy quick points ;-). The time was
far too less (i needed at least 1,5 hour extra to complete everything) so i
couldnt do all the tasks.

To make the story finishing i past the oeq and failed on the other 2.
If i stick to the rules i had learned before the lab maybe i made it i dont
know. But it was a good lesson for me.
I know i can succesfully beat the exam if i dont give up and study harder..
So thats what i'm doing right now.. I started today again with reading
doccd..
I'm planning to do the exam again in jan of feb 2010. And that time i dont
**** up!

Stefan

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Received on Wed Nov 04 2009 - 09:29:17 ART