Re: CCIE#27144

Cheers Maarten!

2010/10/17 Maarten Vervoorn <mr.vervoorn_at_gmail.com>

> 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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