Re: CCIE R&S Discouraged

While I find it difficult to believe that there is Chinese website out
there with an exact replica of your CCIE exam, I think it will be a good
idea if you bring it to Cisco's attention,cos a lot of us cherish the CCIE
certification.

It might be very difficult to pass if you werent 100% like your email
suggested.

No knowledge is lost! If were in your position, after spending the last
two years studying with one attempt, I dont think I would quit at this
junction. But again, everyone has his /her personal reasons for pursuing
the CCIE certifications.

Good luck mate!

Cheers

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Joe Sanchez <marco207p_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> All,
>
> I wanted to send a quick email out to all of you to get your take, and to
> hopefully give me some words of wisdom.
>
> I recently took my CCIE R&S Lab exam at RTP on Nov 9, 2011; I failed and
> I'm ok with that, I knew going into the exam that I was not 100% however I
> scheduled the lab months prior, set my goals and tried to reach them before
> taking the lab. I fell behind on a few of the goals that I set prior to
> taking the exam, but I felt I needed to go ahead and take the lab and get
> the butterflies and overall anxiety out of my system.
>
> I know what I need to do, so that my next attempt at the lab is successful,
> and I'm working on those now.
>
> So here is the part were my discouragement comes into play and really my
> overall mindset to stop studying for this exam and move on with my life, as
> we all know that studying for the CCIE takes away your life for a while.
> I've been studying for the CCIE off and on for almost 2yrs, and there have
> been a few breaks in my studies as I have family and work obligations like
> most of you all, "i digress".
>
> I came back from RTP and I had a few questions on my lab that I absolutely
> had no freakin clue, so I set out looking through the CCO Doc CD and trying
> to figure out the answers to the questions and I read every page on this
> particular subject however, I couldn't find solutions the lab wanted. So I
> set out in the world of google and began using search strings to find my
> answer, and what do you know I found several scenarios from people that
> were pretty close, so I modified my search string and began my
> seek-and-find again. After searching for a few minutes more for my answer,
> up pops a website URL in Chinese that redirects me to a website that has a
> document in adobe web viewer so I think lets read this and see what I
> find. I begin to read the document and see that it is a lab and as I
> scroll down I begin to see the network topology and physical and logical
> layout and the beginning general guideline requirements and I say to myself
> "wow, this is very familiar" as I continue reading I again say " this is
> way to close" and as I scroll down I see a topology that looks exactly like
> the topology I had on my Lab, so I stop... dig out my notebook, "they one I
> drew my LAB topology in, at the airport after my LAB exam" and I say "What
> the hell" this topology is 100% exact to my LAB in RTP and not only that
> but 100% ip addressing, vlan names and numbers, IGP AS numbers, BGP AS
> numbers, "yes" i continued to read and yes everything, again everything was
> 100% my LAB " I found the answer to my question". So I stopped... stared
> at the wall for hmmm... a long time then said "Why" Why do I nearly kill
> myself studying trying to get these digits when people are out there
> cheating, but not only cheating but killing the reputation of a Expert
> community because they feel that if they get the Digits they can make more
> money than what they deserve. So I went home, because I don't study at
> home as this is distraction most of them, and I asked myself the entire
> ride home to whether or not a should continue.
>
> So I suppose my Question is to the whole community here is "should we even
> continue", I've spent thousands or dollars getting equipment, labbooks,
> video's not to mention the hours, but what is the point if people are
> cheating and Employers know that people are cheating, and I've seen this
> over the last few years that some CCIE's don't have a clue.
>
> I'm frustrated, p'd off, and discouraged.
>
> I await your thoughts and reply's.
>
> Please do not email me or request that I give you the website or name of
> the company that is supplying the exact labs, as I will make you publicly
> known for asking in this email group and forums. Really it's not worth it.
>
> Joe Sanchez (Chicago, IL)
>
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