Jimmy, Do not worry man! Treat this like a reconnaissance and work out on your weak areas. I'm sure, you're going to nail it next time.
Head up and back to work! cheers, Piotr 2010/7/14 Jimmy Larsson <[email protected]> > I did not pass the test today. > > I just left Brussels after my first take on the CCIE Security lab. I made a > list of tasks and marked each item as it was configured. My sum total was > 78p. (100 is max, 80 is passing score). I am not 100% sure that all checked > tasks was correct so I expect a somewhat lower score. Score report will > probably be available later tonight. > > So, what happened? I Showed up early, 7:40 and was escorted to the lab room > together with 6 other candidates. We had a lunch break that I can barely > remember anything from and all of a sudden it was 5pm and time to leave. > > The first hour I did all preparations. Diagram, task list, lab reading and > all that. After 1:30 I had the basic l2-l3 setup with ASAs and IPS. I got > kinda stuck at the same point as so many times before: understanding the > topology, get a feeling about what part of the network should work like what > and where the boundaries are. Which addresses should be hidden and which > should be universal routable. Doing a few mistakes with that costed me at > least an hour to troubleshoot and fix what I killed by mistake. > > The self confidence was way low when it was time for lunch. After having > serving to eat (a hamburger, but I honestly don't remember what else was on > that plate!) I decided to do some cherry-picking. Selecting and gaining the > easies points in the work book always do miracles to your mind! I summarized > the task list and found that I had cleared about 70p! > > The last hour or 2 I just tried my best to get as many of the remaining > points as possible. > > When I left I had the following list of uncleared tasks: > > * 2 individual tasks within the same technology. I definitely know what to > study for the next attempt! I tried them both bud left them unfinished after > I spent way too much time on them. These could have pushed me over the line! > > * one task worth 5 (or so) points. I left it untouched because I realized > how much work it would have taken. If I had more Time at the end I'd > probably fixed it. > > * one 3p task that I immediately saw that I had no idea how to solve. I > could have done this as well if I had more time. > > Conclusion: I wasn't prepared enough. I need to speed up my workflow even > more and focus on configuring a few specific technologies over and over with > different tweaks. > > Oh. And the OEQ;s. My worst nightmare came thru: I got 2 hard questions. > Now when I think about them I am quite sure that I nailed them. But they are > EVIL! > > I am SO focused on getting this done. I can hardly get on the plane back > to Sweden, I just wanna have one more attempt on it right now! > > Out of those other candidates I met today there was none that was confident > with their result. At least 3 blew it for sure. One candidate lost ALL > configs when doing a reload the last 30 minutes. > > While of course feeling a bit sad and worthless today I keep telling myself > that there would probably be noone except for me at my company that would > pass this test. > > I keep repeating Markos words: there are no failures when it comes to the > CCIE lab exam. There are only "pass" and "no pass". > > Wait and see, I'll be back! > > Skickat från min iPhone > _______________________________________________ > For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please > visit www.ipexpert.com >
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