Re: CCIE R&S Discouraged

Charlie,

I use to think the same thing. 'While I find it difficult to believe that
there is Chinese website out there with an exact replica of your CCIE
exam', however I spent 6 hours working on my lab, know my topology,
remember the IGP's and particulars of my exam, AND I can tell you this
website had my exam 100%, to include the answers, and I saw the answers
which I put in my LAB as well. I will never forget that first attempt.

As far as telling Cisco, believe me they know that these labs are out there.

Good luck and God's Speed.

Joe Sanchez.

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Charlie::/128 <spycharlies_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
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> It might be very difficult to pass if you werent 100% like your email
> suggested.
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> 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.
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> Good luck mate!
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> Cheers
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> 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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