From: Troy Rader (troy@xxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 16:41:14 GMT-3
I thought that your time was given back to you in full for issues that
turn out to be non-test related. I thought that even people on this list
had attested to that experience. Sounds like they are not exactly
consistent based on the two posts today with hw issues.
Troy
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, DAN DORTON wrote:
> Well I probably could have dealt with it if we could have fixed the
> problem, but again we couldn't & I lost way more than 30 minutes!
>
> I understand the whole real world thing, but in the real world I
> wouldn't have spent over 3 grand to get there & work on a network, they
> would have been paying me!
>
> >>> MADMAN <dmadlan@qwest.com> 02/07/02 12:06PM >>>
>
>
> DAN DORTON wrote:
>
> I see somethings haven't changed!! I had my RP in a 7000 croak
> during
> my first try, bad memory. The proctor found another RP and we
> installed
> it, lost about 30 minutes. I was told the lab is suppose to test real
> world and that was real world:(
>
> good luck
>
> Dave
> > I only have one MAJOR complaint.
> >
> > Excuse me for being vague, but I don't want to break the NDA in any
> > way.
> >
> > I had some equipment that failed at layer 1.
> >
> > I pointed it out right away, but they were unable to fix it.
> >
> > They told me to configure it like I thought it should be & they
> would
> > take it into CONSIDERATION. (Too my surprise I did very badly on
> this
> > section when I checked later!)
> >
> > Unfortunately that left me at a VERY big disadvantage, because
> > troubleshooting as you go is part of the test, but I didn't have
> that
> > luxury on a VERY LARGE part of my test.
> >
> > This happened to me right after lunch which basically screwed my
> entire
> > thought process & made me about ten times as nervous. As if I was
> not
> > nervous enough in the first place.
> >
> > It was something that I had torn apart a hundred times over in my
> home
> > labs & I KNOW if I could have tested it that I would have been able
> to
> > fix it, but again... I did not have that luxury.
> >
> > My advice to you is that if you have equipment failure on your lab
> that
> > you stop & insist that it is repaired, before you go on. I really
> wish
> > that I had done this.
> >
> > Overall it was a gut wrenching experience, but again the test is
> very
> > passable. I believe that if my equipment had not failed & I had not
> let
> > my nerves override my experience that I would have passed. In fact I
> was
> > fairly confident that I did pass until I got home to see the
> horrible
> > results.
> >
> > I will be going back in a few months to attempt it again & hopefully
> my
> > experience will be a little better this time.
> >
> > After this e-mail the proctors that are watching will probably have
> it
> > out for me, but I wanted to try to save some other people the
> problems
> > that I had if at all possible.
> >
> > Anyways, good luck on your attempts & see you in CCIE land one of
> these
> > days.
> >
> > Dan
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