Not only him, but countless others. I'll pass this on to our support guys ;-)
-- Marko Milivojevic - CCIE #18427 Senior Technical Instructor - IPexpert FREE CCIE training: http://bit.ly/vLecture Mailto: [email protected] Telephone: +1.810.326.1444 Web: http://www.ipexpert.com/ On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 20:42, Tyson Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > So we helped jay prepare for the lab > > Regards, > > Tyson Scott > CCIE # 13513 (R&S, Security, SP) > Managing Partner/Technical Instructor - IPexpert Inc. > [email protected] > > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "Marko Milivojevic" <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, Mar 16, 2011 2:11 pm > > Subject: [OSL | CCIE_RS] Lab experience > To: "Liqua" <[email protected]> > Cc: "CCIE OSL" <[email protected]> > > > It's a complaint about R2 in ProctorLabs, which has chronic problem of > sometimes not booting and requiring either to be initialized or power > cycled > to do so. > > -- > Marko Milivojevic - CCIE #18427 > Senior Technical Instructor - IPexpert > > FREE CCIE training: http://bit.ly/vLecture > > Mailto: [email protected] > Telephone: +1.810.326.1444 > Web: http://www.ipexpert.com/ > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:19, Liqua <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Congrats - Nice write up, plus you deserve a beer or two after that. > > > > Perhaps being dumb (and hope it's not NDA) but what does "had a router > pull > > an 'R2' on me" mean please ? What's an R2 ? > > > > Liqua. > > > > --- On Wed, 16/3/11, Jay Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > From: Jay Taylor <[email protected]> > > Subject: [OSL | CCIE_RS] Lab experience > > To: "CCIE OSL" <[email protected]>, [email protected] > > Date: Wednesday, 16 March, 2011, 15:41 > > > > > > Pi day (3/14) was good to me; I passed the routing and switching lab to > get > > my digits! CCIE #28391 > > > > I stayed at Comfort Suites this time rather than the Wingate next door > and > > was happy I switched. Much nicer hotel - cleaner/newer room, better > > breakfast and free beer from 5-7pm (Mon, Tue and Wed only I think.) They > > will shuttle you to other nearby places but I didn't ask about the lab. > > Regardless, I recommend renting a car so you don't have to rely on > someone > > else on such an important day. > > > > Overall I felt my lab this time was more difficult than last time but I > was > > more prepared. Strange how a day can feel like it is dragging on forever > > yet > > going by so quickly at the same time. I felt much more rushed on this > > attempt and was very aware of the clock throughout the whole day. For my > > last attempt I also said that I was having fun for about 75% of the day > and > > that was not the case this time. I had a number of times during the day > > where I was rather stressed about either mistakes I'd made or not being > > able > > to think through the solution I wanted to use. > > > > I struggled more with the troubleshooting section this time than before > and > > ended with only 2-3 minutes to spare (after 1 round of verifying all the > > tickets at the end.) One good thing about the TS section now is Cisco is > > VERY clear about what you need to accomplish in order to consider a > ticket > > solved. Even so, there were a couple tickets that I felt I made too > drastic > > of changes to fix the problem and wasn't sure if I'd get the points for > > them. Even though my solution matched the output they wanted I wouldn't > be > > surprised at all if I missed points on those. > > > > Config section was more complicated than my first attempt but there was > > nothing in there that I had absolutely no idea how to accomplish. There > > were > > several topics I needed help from the DocCD and I asked the proctor quite > a > > few questions again. I got off to a fairly slow start and by lunchtime > > wasn't even done with IGP config. After lunch it felt like things were > just > > getting worse as I struggled with a couple sections and started making > some > > really stupid typos. In the end I had to scrap all my BGP config and > start > > over due to non-technical mistakes. By then I was freaking out pretty bad > > and before starting BGP over I took a bathroom break and tried to 'reset' > > myself. I pushed through the rest of the routing config and by the time I > > started on services and misc topics I didn't think I had enough time to > > finish. Somehow I was able to knock all those tasks out in a pretty short > > amount of time and still had an hour left to verify. Line by line I went > > through the entire lab and verified points for each section. In the end > > there were a couple tasks that I wasn't sure if I'd get points for but > the > > rest I felt very good about. I did go back and change a few things in > that > > last hour and had a freak out moment in the last 15 minutes when I > couldn't > > get something working again that I tried to fix. That last change took me > > right up until the last 5 minutes. > > > > You hear it all the time from IPexpert instructors and I can't stress > this > > enough - READ THE ENTIRE LAB BEFORE YOU START. Tasks at the end can have > a > > big impact on how you do things early on. If you don't read the whole > thing > > you will likely be rebuilding some of the basics to allow later tasks to > > work correctly. > > > > Two things that stood out to me about my lab day: > > > > 1. Had a router pull an 'R2' on me twice throughout the day when I > > rebooted it. The proctor was clear that this was my problem to fix > even > > when > > the router didn't recognize it's flash memory. > > 2. A task was worded using KB for a function that clearly required Kb. > I > > asked the proctor a couple times and she insisted that I should > > configure it > > as if it requested Kb. I almost started the task by converting bytes > to > > bits > > and that would have been completely wrong based on what I was told. > > After > > the lab she agreed with me that the lab wording is misleading. > > _______________________________________________ > > For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please > > visit www.ipexpert.com > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please > > visit www.ipexpert.com > > > _______________________________________________ > For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please > visit www.ipexpert.com > _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com
