Re: Chronicles of Narbik - Reloaded 2011

Umm...

I live CCIE Security and CCIE Wireless pretty much every day - no getting
away from it at this point in my career. I guess we'll be adding CCIE Data
Center to that list asap when it comes to light.

I got 400+ APs and 2 new Cisco 5508 Controllers to deploy for Wireless +
more work on WCS.

I got invited to 4 of the beta courses for what will eventually make up the
CCIE DC, so I got cleared by job to go to one of them in just two weeks from
now.

So... still gotta finish the R&S off and it looks like my average score was
62.5 (+2 for the grading script error) and then maybe another few points for
interfaces and addressing issues on a brutally attention to detail R&S lab
offered by the Cisco 360 Program.

So on my blog, I have to come up with a plan of action to get up and over
those 17.5 points or better...

Of course most of those points may be attributed to the fact I've not taken
a graded lab since like 2006 or so with NMC/INE/Cisco so I've got some work
to do.

Back in the day I imporved my game about ~36 points or so in a about 4-5
months or so before going to a lab.

I've seen others score similarly well on exams like this offered by the then
NMC and now Cisco 360 and quite frankly... It's not that far away now.

Anyone's labs - Any time and that was my goal then and is still my goal now.

So...

Let's see what a little strategy and some carefully considered graded labs
can do help me get another 30 points worth of confidence...

Darby

http://www.darbyslogs.blogspot.com

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Radioactive Frog <pbhatkoti_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> Yoooooooooo Darby - welcome back... I thought you were studying for CCIE
> security?
>
> Have you changed your mind now? Hue?
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:32 PM, <darby.weaver_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well back on GS once again courtesy of our host Paul Borghese. He's in
>> class
>> with me this week evaluating, assisting, and may even take to the
>> whiteboard
>> later in the week... as part of the Cisco 360 Program Evaluation Process.
>>
>>
>>
>> http://darbyslogs.blogspot.com/2011/04/narbik-chronicles-reloaded-2011-edition.html
>>
>>
>> I got my graded lab back and have updated with blog with my current score.
>>
>> It's not perfect but for me - It's been a while since I took a graded lab
>> -
>> 2006 or so...
>>
>> So my first score is some ~13 points above my average back in the day and
>> I was
>> trying something new for me in using notepad as a lab configuration
>> technique.
>>
>> I just scored 20/22 tasks on the Cisco 360 Beta Troubleshooting Lab only
>> about
>> 1.5 weeks ago and it had ~30 Routers and was very similar to what I expect
>> to
>> meet in the CCIE v4.0 Lab.
>>
>> I get another TS Lab on Thursday followed by another full 8-hour lab.
>>
>> The Cisco 360 has revamped their labs and these graded labs are similar
>> but are
>> not the old labs either...
>>
>> Lots of tasks, twisters, redistribution is still in there, allong with
>> mostly
>> all the other "gotcha" type topics which are really par for the course
>> anyway...
>>
>> It's a lot of fun and...
>>
>> Being in a class with a pair of illustrious Triple CCIE Instructors...
>>
>> FYI - Paul Borshese took to the whiteboard and quite cl early and
>> consisely
>> delivered a masterful demonstration of Frame Relay to one of the
>> attendees...
>>
>> I think I am in the class with one Cisco employee who has been to more
>> different bootcamps that even I've been too....
>>
>> Hah!
>>
>> Lots of people who have been to the lab and there are at least 2 guys in
>> the
>> class who have caught my eye as immenent CCIE-2-BE's already...
>>
>> Nice!
>>
>> Andrew Lissitz is here and he has "The Eye of The Tiger" for sure.
>>
>>
>> Good stuff!
>>
>> Visit my blog this week if you have time and care to check in on how
>> things are
>> going.
>>
>> I'm going to submit the final and whole report for the CCIEflyer May
>> Edition
>> after I tally the whole week.
>>
>> Narbik is still doing his thing and is the CCIE Instructor to beat...
>> Umm....
>> There are 17 students in the room...
>>
>> I've been to classes with as few as 4... Feast or Famine, this industry
>> is
>> rough.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Darby Weaver
>>
>>
>> http://darbyslogs.blogspot.com/2011/04/narbik-chronicles-reloaded-2011-edition.html
>>
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