Re: CCIE#27144

Larry,

My 360 vendor was global knowledge. I would like to give a honest review
about the program

Kind regards,

Maarten Vervoorn

2010/10/15 Larry H <larryh12203_at_gmail.com>

> Maarten
> Who was your 360 vendor?
> If you would like to do a review of the 360 program to help others who
> might be trying to decide to use or not, let me know.
>
> Thanks
> Larry Hadrava
> CCIE #12203
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Oct 15, 2010, at 8:32 AM, Maarten Vervoorn <mr.vervoorn_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Rob,
> >
> > I used the 360 program from Cisco. I had 12 graded assesment lab. All
> > assesment labs were before my first attempt. I requested two more for my
> > second attempt. After the first attempt I spended lots of time on the
> doccd
> > research each topic
> >
> > Troubleshooting is performing a stratagy you create for your own. The
> rest
> > comes up with technical knowledge of the topics. Different tickets
> requires
> > a different step by step troubleshooting procedure. Also a lot of hands
> on
> > experience would help you in the troubelshooting section.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Maarten Vervoorn
> >
> >
> >
> > 2010/10/15 Rob Clav <robclav_at_gmail.com>
> >
> >> Congrats Maarten!. Can you explain which material did you use preparing
> >> troubleshooting section? And also, did you test before go to the exam
> using
> >> graded labs, or mock labs?
> >> thanks in advance,
> >> Robclav
> >>
> >> robclavbcn.blogspot.com
> >> www.kubsolutions.com
> >>
> >> 2010/10/15 Maarten Vervoorn <mr.vervoorn_at_gmail.com>
> >>
> >> Julius,
> >>>
> >>> Be sure you know you stuff every topic. The first time I went to the
> exam
> >>> there were some topics I did not know good enough, I needed to do
> >>> researching on serveral topics, this costs time. After that I failed my
> >>> exam
> >>> I went topic my topic and especialiy the topics I wasn't very good at.
> >>> Know
> >>> every item for inside out. You need to dream about it. Make notes short
> >>> notes of every thing. This helps memorizing the difficult things. When
> you
> >>> get such topic you know what to do. Be sure When the date of you exam
> is
> >>> coming near that you are confident of everything
> >>>
> >>> All things you have controle of arrange them as good as possible, Take
> a
> >>> hotel the day before have a nice dinner and a good time of sleep. In
> the
> >>> morning of your exam, take your time. Have some breakfast and drink a
> nice
> >>> cup of cofffee. Arive ealy at you lab location so you know your on time
> >>>
> >>> Kind regards,
> >>>
> >>> Maarten Vervoorn
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 2010/10/14 Bisi Julius <julius4success_at_gmail.com>
> >>>
> >>>> Hi Maarten,
> >>>> Congratulation man. I am happy for you. I will be entering lab in Dec.
> >>> pls
> >>>> what is your advice for me.
> >>>>
> >>>> Br,
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Maarten Vervoorn <
> >>> mr.vervoorn_at_gmail.com>wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Finaly I got it, my number! Prety confident I went to my second
> >>> attempt
> >>>>> of
> >>>>> my lab. I know all my stuff made notes everything I encountered on
> >>> during
> >>>>> my
> >>>>> studies. I learned from my mistakes last time. I took a hotel and
> have
> >>> a
> >>>>> good sleep. Next morning woke up early, took a breakfast and a nice
> cup
> >>> of
> >>>>> coffee. I went to the Cisco building at 7:45 to be on time. The
> proctor
> >>>>> arived at 8:15 and brought us to our place
> >>>>>
> >>>>> First the troubleshooting section. The interface was a bit slow and
> >>> also
> >>>>> the
> >>>>> terminal response was slow. I went ticket by ticket, skipped one
> ticket
> >>>>> which I couldn't find the answer of. There were some difficult
> >>>>> troubleshooting tickets in there. I thought it was harder than the
> last
> >>>>> time
> >>>>> I sat there. I finished the tickets in 75 minutes. So I had 45
> minutes
> >>>>> left
> >>>>> to check them all once again and look after the ticket I skipped.
> After
> >>>>> 115
> >>>>> min I ended the troubleshooting session.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The configuration section. I went on question by question in the lab,
> >>> did
> >>>>> not make a task tracking sheet. I only wrote down difficult things or
> >>>>> things
> >>>>> that needed to be rechecked. I drew a L2 and L3 diagram to get
> >>> familliar
> >>>>> with the topology. There were some very difficult questions in there
> >>> which
> >>>>> needed a lot of thinking and drawing so that why I drew my own
> topology
> >>>>> diagrams. After 4 hours and 15 minutes I finished the last question.
> >>> Now I
> >>>>> had enough time to recheck my work. And it was good I had this time.
> I
> >>>>> filled the time with reading the question 2 or 3 times more try to
> see
> >>> if
> >>>>> it
> >>>>> can be interpet any other way. I asked the proctor a lot of question
> >>>>> during
> >>>>> that time to see if I interpet the question right. That was very very
> >>>>> helpfull. I corrected 4 or 5 questions during that time.
> >>>>> After finishing the lab at 16:45 I had a good feeling I might pass
> this
> >>>>> time. Troubelshooing was good and configuration was good.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I needed to drive back home for 210 kilometers I know its rush hour
> so
> >>> I
> >>>>> didn't want to get stuck in traffic there. I avoided the highways a
> >>> took a
> >>>>> nice meal in a little village. at 19:00 I left and went back to home.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The next morning started the cisco ccie tool to check my results, no
> >>>>> results
> >>>>> there, The whole day I keep on checking, no results. The last time a
> >>> check
> >>>>> was about 22:00 and still no result.
> >>>>> The next morning I woke up early I needed to check it right away. And
> >>>>> there
> >>>>> it was: my number and the word PASS never felt that good.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I very very happy I finaly got It took me 18 months of studying. Each
> >>> week
> >>>>> 2
> >>>>> or 3 nights and one day. No excuse.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
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