RE: Failed CCIE lab

Learning from a failure can certainly be part of this process. I am so excited to read how motivated you are now. This is perfect.

I love the modifications to your strategy that you are suggesting. It was a pleasure speaking with you last week, and I look forward to more of that now that we have a bit more time in front of us before your next (and final) attempt.

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Stefan Geutjes
Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 5:55 AM
To: Cisco certification
Subject: Failed CCIE lab

Hello all,

I did not make it...... not in both sections.
I failed troubleshooting en configuration with 60% each.

Troubleshooting i got stuck in basic l2 wan configuration. (it cost me 2 tickets). At home i feel expert of l2 but in the lab i didnt see the right solution.
Configuration i handed wrong approach. My advise, read first the whole L2 section (same for l3 ofcourse) and then start configuring with the part its most logic to you (so not first ticket 1 then 2 then 3 but maybe 2,3,1) There were some parts in it i never labbed up (technics you know they exist but not used often) , and i forget some basic knowledge of those technics so i configured just parts of it and thought it was completed but if you know the basic theory you should know that there was more to configure.
I think its not too difficult, i made stupid mistakes and forgot basic things. I'm already preparing again, studying again (start with basic theory).
They dont ask you to configure strange things or use ninja technics as you must do in some of the INE labs. They test you if you understand the basics fully and can find things quickly on the doccd (you need those because some of the strange parameters in some commands you need to use).

I'm not demotivated now. I think i'm extra motivated now. I know its passible.
In 2-3 months i take another attempt.

And dont get frustrated as the interface to the routers/switches is very slow in the lab..... i hope they fix that part.......

Kind regards,

Stefan

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Received on Sun Dec 12 2010 - 05:48:04 ART