I have no nda stuff to share (either should anyone else) so no need for private e-mail.
Taken from my experience: If it's your first time you will meet the following: Unfamiliar with environment. Unfamiliar with the PC, can't beat the nervousness, the anxiety, the frustrations you will encounter, the anxiousness-no matter how you say to yourself that you are ok. Remember you only have a 20 point margin. If you get IPCC questions and they are worth 5-10-whatever points, your margin dropped by a LOT. You will encounter small problems on the test that didn't happen during your studies. These take time to fix (because you are an expert and know how to fix them) but eat up your time. A lot of people say most people don't finish due to running out of time. I knew how to do EVERY question. I didn't have time to properly test everything-taking a lot of questions on faith that they worked. I also couldn't get things to work that I knew how to do from customer experience and practiced in the lab many times and when I got home and tried it, it also worked. Could have also been just mental blocks. I'd say at the 5 hour mark, you better have a running tally of how many points you think you have. If not over 80, you better work on the low hanging fruit to try to get those points back. At the 6 hour mark, your configurations are supposed to be complete and you test for 2 hours. If your tally is not above 80, then you get into my situation of taking some things on faith, testing others and resolving issues on others. You should know whether you passed or failed during the test. If you think you got everything correct and you end up failing (which I've heard from people,) then you were kidding yourself somewhere. You should know in your configurations and your testing whether it worked or not. There are always the points for "what the proctor was looking for", but I don't think there are 20 points worth of those. I wish you luck, but your statement "but for the most part i have most of the topic down cold" you will wish you never wrote. It will haunt you. And I do believe some of the test is luck and things falling into place vs giving trouble just to give trouble. Karma is huge. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of sean hurricane Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 12:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_Voice] LAB in five days my e-mail address is [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> if anyone wants to contact me privately. On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:25 PM, sean hurricane <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: My lab is in five days, any advice? especially from those who have passed. i have some issues especially with IPCC but for the most part i have most of the topic down cold. I will appreciate any advice even from those who failed, at least i wont have to repeat their mistake.
