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930/1000.
I didn't think it was that bad, honestly, I thought it was almost fun. Mind you, there were quite a few times where I was thinking "Why the $%#@%#@ did they ask this?" Time and time again during the exam, all my practical experience and lab work paid off, but talking with xphil3, this probably hurts me now for the lab, which is muchhhhhhhh worse than the written.
Preparation was very intense since November 2008. I read LAN switching, both Doyle routing books, multicast book, part of the QoS book and read the cert guide twice. Also, from the cert guide, I practically memorized the appendix at the end that lists all the tables from every chapter (read that on the subway all the time haha
). In addition, if some of you read http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1372523, you would know that I have a kick ass environment to learn on, where I'm doing Cisco stuff nearlly 40/5+ at work. I also built several multicast labs, IPv6 labs, MPLS labs, and anything else I wasn't very comfortable with.
It's definitely a load of my shoulders. I know, though, that this isn't the peak of the mountain. I wish xphil3 the best of luck in his lab coming up soon. I don't think I'm ready to take a stab at it yet... sometime in 2010.... which means I'll be taking version 4.
For anyone going for it, without breaking the NDA, I'll tell you this much. You REALLY need to be able to look at a topology and know exactly what the route table looks like, as well as any thing special about that route. Basically, you almost need to be running SPF or DUAL in your head. If you can do that, and you're fairly comfortable with everything on the blueprint.. you'll pass no problem.
Oh, and one thing to note that's kind of ironic. After all this, I still don't have any cert to show for it. That'll give me motivation for the lab I'm hoping.
Thanks for all the support guys (especially those who post weird cisco problems)
I didn't think it was that bad, honestly, I thought it was almost fun. Mind you, there were quite a few times where I was thinking "Why the $%#@%#@ did they ask this?" Time and time again during the exam, all my practical experience and lab work paid off, but talking with xphil3, this probably hurts me now for the lab, which is muchhhhhhhh worse than the written.
Preparation was very intense since November 2008. I read LAN switching, both Doyle routing books, multicast book, part of the QoS book and read the cert guide twice. Also, from the cert guide, I practically memorized the appendix at the end that lists all the tables from every chapter (read that on the subway all the time haha
). In addition, if some of you read http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1372523, you would know that I have a kick ass environment to learn on, where I'm doing Cisco stuff nearlly 40/5+ at work. I also built several multicast labs, IPv6 labs, MPLS labs, and anything else I wasn't very comfortable with.It's definitely a load of my shoulders. I know, though, that this isn't the peak of the mountain. I wish xphil3 the best of luck in his lab coming up soon. I don't think I'm ready to take a stab at it yet... sometime in 2010.... which means I'll be taking version 4.
For anyone going for it, without breaking the NDA, I'll tell you this much. You REALLY need to be able to look at a topology and know exactly what the route table looks like, as well as any thing special about that route. Basically, you almost need to be running SPF or DUAL in your head
. If you can do that, and you're fairly comfortable with everything on the blueprint.. you'll pass no problem.Oh, and one thing to note that's kind of ironic. After all this, I still don't have any cert to show for it. That'll give me motivation for the lab I'm hoping.
Thanks for all the support guys (especially those who post weird cisco problems)