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Thats right, failed on my first attempt with stupid mistakes, example (fictitious) forgot to enable pim in an interface after having done a pile of good configuration.

Yes that was mistakes like this that made me fail.

I basically finished the exam before lunch, I had BGP and multicast left but I had already the answers in my head, so after 4.45 I was done. My score was so close i thought I would ask for a reread but i know its a waste.

I think I can do it next time which will be in january. December is full in Brussels.

I think I paid the price of too confident, I spent the afternoon eating bananas and drinking coke, because my lab seemed good and I knew everything...right...During lunch I was already talking to other candidates about the price of a ls1010 for the CCIE SP cuz I really thought I had done it.

My biggest mistake - too confident, lack of testing configuration for the last 2 hours, too much coke and bananas..

Im a lil scared to speak of the exam itself not to break any policy but if u cover all workbook 2 ur good to go. Id say u probably know already too much extra stuff which is good.

The plan now is to become more humble and less excited, go tru my weak areas QOS and Security, in fact my weak areas is reading the question. Im like, read 3 words and im configuring. Imagine I recovered like 12 points after I checked the lab in the end. I had seriously jumped bullet points for lack of reading.

Im a joke sometimes..Anyways i believe a 3 point question more and i had passed

Thats right, failed on my first attempt with stupid mistakes, example (fictitious) forgot to enable pim in an interface after having done a pile of good configuration.

Yes that was mistakes like this that made me fail.

I basically finished the exam before lunch, I had BGP and multicast left but I had already the answers in my head, so after 4.45 I was done. My score was so close i thought I would ask for a reread but i know its a waste.

I think I can do it next time which will be in january. December is full in Brussels.

I think I paid the price of too confident, I spent the afternoon eating bananas and drinking coke, because my lab seemed good and I knew everything...right...During lunch I was already talking to other candidates about the price of a ls1010 for the CCIE SP cuz I really thought I had done it.

My biggest mistake - too confident, lack of testing configuration for the last 2 hours, too much coke and bananas..

Im a lil scared to speak of the exam itself not to break any policy but if u cover all workbook 2 ur good to go. Id say u probably know already too much extra stuff which is good.

The plan now is to become more humble and less excited, go tru my weak areas QOS and Security, in fact my weak areas is reading the question. Im like, read 3 words and im configuring. Imagine I recovered like 12 points after I checked the lab in the end. I had seriouly jumped bullet points for lack of reading.

Im a joke sometimes..Anyways i belive a 3 point question more and i had passed

hello,

I am really sorry to hear that.....

Thanks people.

I just feel that I failed a fairly easy exam, maybe next time I could get a much more difficult one and then is another story.

Hurts to make mistakes, for not paying attention, configuring stuff and not enable it...

But I will keep studying and cheer up!

Hi Ricardo Martins

U must be good now, this is an experience too, this a big practice with stress in play.  Practice alot, be quickly, be carefull, pay attention, and please verify always what you are doing.

Thanks for sharing this experience Ricardo, it gave me motivation to keep study tonight

Sorry to hear!  It sounds like you know the technical aspects of it, just a matter of watching those details ;)

Look forward to hearing you pass.

yeah, it just feels horrible when you put lots of effort on it. There were weeks I studied 16 hours a day, Basically was studying and sleeping. I really thought it would be peace of cake for me.

Im this kind of guy, im very fast thinking and configuring, I just learn very fast, however my problem is the excitment. I get too excited with this stuff...I just need to calm down, and do a better job next time.