Re: CCIE Lab attempt 3/12/2012 - Failed

Hey man, it takes a lot of guts to post on a public forum that you
didn't make it this time around...but you have the right idea --
Forget the word failure, it doesn't exist. This is just one more
experience towards being successful. Best of luck in your studies!

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Aaron <aaron1_at_gvtc.com> wrote:
> Hi GS folks,
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> I tripled my score on troubleshooting from last year's attempt. I only
> answered 8 of the 10 tickets....the other 2 were too complex for me to
> handle in the time allowed....the tshoot pod shut down at 2 hours.
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> The config portion was going fairly well around lunch time (so I thought), I
> was moving along at an O.K. pace, but after lunch I rebooted my routers to
> test out everything and lost core connectivity to the greater part of the
> network....took me about 90 minutes to get it back to where it was prior to
> lunch. Was seeing some strange things. (which probably speaks to my lack
> of readiness as a whole)....got 39% on config.
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> With about an hour on the clock I rushed through bgp (left one or two things
> undone since I didn't know how to do them), rushed through mcast and barely
> touched advanced services. Didn't touch network optimization at all. I
> have a huge opportunity for more points as i'm not nearly touching what I
> could, but that will come with time, study, practice and prayer. I'm
> already looking forward to KILLING, ahhrrm, taking the test again sometime
> in the future.
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> Wishing you all the best in your pursuit to CCIE.and looking forward to
> swapping labels, ahhrmm, ideas with you all in the future. J
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> Aaron
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> Configuration - FAIL
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> Section
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> Section Score
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> 1. Layer 2 Technologies
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> 57%
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> 2. Layer 3 Technologies
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> 72%
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> 3. IP Multicast
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> 50%
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> 4. Advanced Services
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> 15%
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> 5. Optimize the Network
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> 0%
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> Troubleshooting - FAIL
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> Section Score
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> 1. 1. Troubleshooting
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> 68%
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