Cisco recently determined that Corporate would only pay for two lab attempts
by employees. After that, it becomes the department responsibility ( goes
against department P&L ) or the employee personally pays. This is at the
department manager's discretion.
Policy apparently kicked in around mid-march. In my ECP1 class there was a
young lady employee who had her lab booked n Sydney. She was told by the lab
manager that the company wasn't paying for her and she had to start making
frantic calls to her manager to see if that person would authorize.
BTW, I believe this policy will help alleviate huge backlog at the testing
locations.
Chuck
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
Roger Sohn
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 2:59 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Congrats [7:4044]
I think most people don't understand that if you do work for Cisco,
employees are required to score 10 or 15% higher than the regular passing
score. And that also goes for the CCIE Lab exam as well as the other CCxx
tests.
Cisco also only allows 2 free lab attempts, and anything after that you have
to pay for the entire amount that everyone else pays.
-----Original Message-----
From: Q [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 2:26 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Congrats [7:4044]
Gee that's kinda like working at Microsoft as a Windowz architech and
getting your MCSE! How hard can that be? Send me the CCIE's work resume out
side of the lab of Cisco, then i'll be impressed..See if you can manage
Riverstone and Nortel equipment as well.....Well first you gotta survive the
Cisco layoffs. Bummer...heh..
Q
"Frank Kim" wrote in message
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> I'm proud of you. Go Vietnamese! I'm taking my lab this November
> also. I hope I will be the second Vietnamese person who will send out
> such good news to the group.
>
> -Frank
>
>
> On Thu, 10 May 2001, DUNG H. LE wrote:
>
> > May 7-8, 2001 - RTP Lab facility
> >
> > This was attempt 2. I changed my study habits from attempt 1, and
therefore
> > testing technique, for my attempt 2 (you perform like you
> > practice..right?). It paid off. The change was to monotonously ping
every
> > interface IP / IPX address from every router. I made a list of the
> addresses
> > and ran through all of them from every router. I believe this lack of
> > attention to detail is what did me in on attempt one.
> >
> > Time management was key. If I didn't know the config off the top of my
> > head, I skipped it. This allowed me to complete the entire day 1
portion 3
> > hours early. I had 4 areas that I needed to think about, so I saved
them
> > for last. I methodically approached each of the 4 areas, knocked out
each
> > requirement, and had 1 hour left to do the testing above. My strategy
was
> > that no matter what, I would take the last hour to test thoroughly, I
just
> > happened to get my 4 items done. Day 2 was the same way...although only
3
> > hours for the first part, I still had 45 minutes to test it all.
> >
> > Troubleshooting was by far the most nerve-racking experience. I had a
> > "trouble ticket" list and was told to find as many problems as I could
and
> > document/fix them (one liners). Unexpectedly I had to troubleshoot a
> > different network than the one I had spent a day and a half configuring.
3
> > hours was the time limit to learn a new topology, IP scheme, protocol
> > intent, and then fix as much as possible. I don't feel like I was ready
> for
> > this, and must have just kept calm enough to manage it.
> >
> > The waiting is a nerve killer. You wait before the lab starts about an
> hour
> > for everything and everyone to get ready. You wait all night long for
> > status on day 1's score. You wait after day 2 build out...1.5 hours for
> > me.... to find out if you made it to troubleshooting. Then you wait
while
> > they add up the points and spit a number out of the computer.... or not.
> > Howard ???? was the best!!! Comic relief goes a long way to ease my
stress,
> > and he delivered. I was very comfortable in the RTP environment.
> >
> > Study material used / frequency:
> > Caslow 2nd edition - read it cover to cover once.
> > Ccbootcamp labs - practiced daily (almost and minus weekends) for 4
> > months.... 4-6 hours per day on a rack of equipment that was very
similar
> to
> > the real thing. I was very comfortable with what was required of me for
> day
> > 1 and 2 build out. In retrospect I would have practiced a bit more on
> > troubleshooting. I was not comfortable with this at all and could have
> used
> > some familiarity with strategy and tactic on this part.
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