From: Ronnie Royston (RonnieR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sat Dec 23 2000 - 15:04:04 GMT-3
For those of you who haven't been yet, here's what I saw. (I didn't pass,
...this time - neither did anybody else)
I went to RTP. Cisco has a campus of about 5 buildings, all facing a big
open parking/park area. When I arrived to the right building, the door was
locked just like every other door at Cisco and it was about 20 degrees,
...damn! Anyway, there were three guys sitting in the reception area. A
guy came in about 8:15 and grabbed those guys ( who were there for day 2).
By 8:30 all of us day 1 guys were there. We were brought to the lab room.
It was a big corner room on the first floor full of cubicles that stood
about 3 feet high. Each cubicle had a rack of gear. The proctor gave us a
very brief tour of the rack and walked us to our respective stations.
The lab test was made up of many 2 point questions. You'll be given patch
cables and have to wire up your rack appropriately. Under the pressure of
the CCIE lab clock, I was uneasy about getting all of my layer 1-2 up, but,
you'll figure it all out, I did in about 30 minutes, except for one thing,
...crap!
I believe that it is safe to say that you can expect to be asked to do
things that you haven't done before. I was. That wasn't that bad though,
if you believe, and hit "?" enough along with the command reference to
double check, you'll get those points. What will kill you is not knowing
every layer 2 technology that Cisco supports well enough to configure it and
tweak it, and routing. I recommend that no matter how much you're missing,
stop building at 4:00pm and start checking what you have built. You WILL
find many simple mistakes that you will know how to fix. Do NOT build until
5:00pm. Make yourself stop at 4:00, ping, telnet, show ip route, show dlsw
peers. I sat there on day two after being failed and fixed more than half
of what I got wrong in one hour.
Good luck everybody and Happy Holdiays.
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