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

Thanks Joe, it's all part of the process. I'm looking forward to it again.
I have a significant amount of work ahead
To you all at GS, thanks for the encouragement and working with me on all
this over the past several months.....I'm looking forward to working with
you all in the next few months too.
I will say this, as I understand it, ccie has always been an open book
test....however if you find yourself on test day looking up answers over and
over again on the doccd, it would seem you aren't ready.
Also, if you are praying days prior to your test that oh God, please have
Cisco not ask me question on the test about EEM or OER....you probably
aren't ready.
Embrace OER
Master EEM
Love RMON
Get intimate with MPLS L3VPN's
You will probably do well

:)

Aaron

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Astorino [mailto:joeastorino1982_at_gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 2:23 PM
To: Aaron
Cc: Cisco certification
Subject: 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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