Well enough is enough !! I am not going to let the exam beat me up !!I will fight and pass the exam !! I am beginning with MPLS ! I went through the theory again today used the MPLS fundamentals book , its a pretty neat book !!
The Idea is to get the following completed this week !!
* MPLS
* BGP
* IGP
* Multicast
* Switching
If can have all of this digested by 17th which I should be able to comfortably I will go on with the other sections the next week.
The Plan is to work out 5 to 7 workbook labs before I determine am ready for the real lab !! The sooner I go for the lab the better it is as I intend to take it up before end of the year !!
All the best to me :)
Monday, October 11, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
2nd Time Unlucky
Well i went for my second shot at the lab and my first for the v4. Was in the cisco office by 7am and was the only one there. 30mins later i was joined by other folks. 4of us all for R&S. The only good thing was that everyone were light headed and talking about cisco and ccie. I felt good, no anxiety or tension.
We got our name badges with "CCIE" written below it ( thats the closest i have got to being a ccie).The proctor came and took us inside briefed us about the exam.
Went to my pod logged in and the first section was the Troubleshooting section. The interface is really well done with neat diagrams !! I felt very comfortable using the UI on the large monitor. Took about 2mins to understand the various options available for us and then started with the tickets.
I took the full 120 mins to solve what i believe was 9 tickets, the rest i dont think i got them working or had the configs required. Well i was happy because i though i will pass as i had enough tickets resolved. With that confidence i moved to the configuration section.
I went and brought myself a cup of tea and started out with the config section. Read through the entire lab, saw the various diagrams presented(which were very neat and dint have to be redrawn). Got a good idea about the overall lab and started out with the L2. The L2 and L3 went well !! We went for lunch. After lunch i resumed my lab, got stuck in a certain task but got it working eventually !! I finished the lab with 60mins to spare !! I went through the entire lab and config again tweaked some areas !! I told myself i was going to pass , even if i did fail will do so by a few points !!
4 hours later i checked my mail !! Lab score report had come ... I though oh no ... opened the link provided and was actually startled to see some of the section i had scored less than the expected level and i had eventually failed. I was shocked, i dint expect to fail and certainly not with that kind of score !!
Well I really dont know what went wrong, but here i am ready to go for my 3rd attempt aain !! But this time i will nail it no matter what !!
We got our name badges with "CCIE" written below it ( thats the closest i have got to being a ccie).The proctor came and took us inside briefed us about the exam.
Went to my pod logged in and the first section was the Troubleshooting section. The interface is really well done with neat diagrams !! I felt very comfortable using the UI on the large monitor. Took about 2mins to understand the various options available for us and then started with the tickets.
I took the full 120 mins to solve what i believe was 9 tickets, the rest i dont think i got them working or had the configs required. Well i was happy because i though i will pass as i had enough tickets resolved. With that confidence i moved to the configuration section.
I went and brought myself a cup of tea and started out with the config section. Read through the entire lab, saw the various diagrams presented(which were very neat and dint have to be redrawn). Got a good idea about the overall lab and started out with the L2. The L2 and L3 went well !! We went for lunch. After lunch i resumed my lab, got stuck in a certain task but got it working eventually !! I finished the lab with 60mins to spare !! I went through the entire lab and config again tweaked some areas !! I told myself i was going to pass , even if i did fail will do so by a few points !!
4 hours later i checked my mail !! Lab score report had come ... I though oh no ... opened the link provided and was actually startled to see some of the section i had scored less than the expected level and i had eventually failed. I was shocked, i dint expect to fail and certainly not with that kind of score !!
Well I really dont know what went wrong, but here i am ready to go for my 3rd attempt aain !! But this time i will nail it no matter what !!
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