Everything is subjective to some extent. This hasn't
changed over the years....
When people fail the real lab, you'll frequently hear
things about how difficult it was and how there were so many tough things on
there, or some version of that.
When people pass the lab, you'll hear "it was fair" or "it
was easier than last time" or things like that.
In the real lab, there is much more consistency than our
labs, but it all depends on what you are used to! Bottom line is that the
lab hasnt' changed. People's knowledge or comfort level
does!
In terms of the QUANTITY of deliberately difficult things,
you'll find the real lab on par with a 6.5-7 of our rankings. But any
particular individual topic/gotcha is fair game.
HTH,
Scott Morris, CCIE4 #4713, JNCIE-M #153, JNCIS-ER, CISSP, et al.
CCSI/JNCI-M/JNCI-ER
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Eeeeviiiil......
Hey All,
For quite a while now I've being meaning to share the
following thought... Let's see what you guys/gals have
experienced.
Either I've got progressively thicker by the lab or the
latter lab ratings are tougher than earlier ones - Let's take lab 18 as an
example, rated an average 7. Why is it that this "7" seems to be tougher
than all the previous 7's. Don't interpret me wrong there certainly wasn't
anything new not already covered by previous labs, but the wording was very
subjective to interpretation. Minor requirements are not explicitly stated, such
as the creation of two new VLAN's for L3 etherchannel forwarding - things which
were most definitely stated in previous "8"'s perhaps?
I mean this is not
a bad thing - the tougher and more obscure in nature that any question is the
better! It's just that I hope I don't get the CCIE lab proper as a claimed 7
when it really is a a "9".
I know ratings can be fairly subjective so
perhaps I was just better with the technologies presented in earlier
labs.
Hmmm or maybe its the fact that there’s no virtual proctor to
constantly harass...
Anyone else
like to share their thoughts?
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