Cisco certification

[Dragonfighter]

...Access Control Lists...

Ugh, ACLs! That was the only part of my exam where I was nipping badly - my keyboard was double-spacing for some reason, so I couldn't just up-arrow and accurately edit the previous line eg. from permit to deny, so I had to wipe everything and do each line manually.

That was fine once I got going, but when I went to apply my ACL to a specific interface on the router, I typed access-group 101 in - and the command wouldn't work

Blood was hammering in my ears and all I could think about was how I'd let everybody down if I walked out a failure. I knew I couldn't skip the question and come back to it as the exam doesn't allow that, so I looked at the clock and went "Calm down, don't panic - you've got plenty of time and you've done this a thousand times. Close your eyes and see the command...."

And then after 30 seconds or so, realised I'd left out the prefix ip - dummy! I literally shivered with relief once I got it in and it worked!

Ooo. My head hurts.

[RPB]

...Access Control Lists...

Ugh, ACLs! That was the only part of my exam where I was nipping badly - my keyboard was double-spacing for some reason, so I couldn't just up-arrow and accurately edit the previous line eg. from permit to deny, so I had to wipe everything and do each line manually.

That was fine once I got going, but when I went to apply my ACL to a specific interface on the router, I typed access-group 101 in - and the command wouldn't work

Blood was hammering in my ears and all I could think about was how I'd let everybody down if I walked out a failure. I knew I couldn't skip the question and come back to it as the exam doesn't allow that, so I looked at the clock and went "Calm down, don't panic - you've got plenty of time and you've done this a thousand times. Close your eyes and see the command...."

And then after 30 seconds or so, realised I'd left out the prefix ip - dummy! I literally shivered with relief once I got it in and it worked!

Ooo. My head hurts.

Seems mind-boggling at first, but after you are around it for five to ten years, you'll spot a simple typo or something real fast that others work hours to figure out.

I actually audited a class (in like Netmeeting chatroom environment at MSN) on access lists and after the instructor was holding up class (ran about 2 hours longer than it should) trying to help a girl who couldn't "get it" I got busted whispering the answers to the girl. Boy was that instructor mad ... I ended up being that instructor's supervisor soon afterward, and we laughed about it years later. (We didn't put the person who didn't "get it" in a position where she needed it either though .... I was tired and didn't want to spend the entire night in that class lol.

[rob845]

Congrats!! I am actually taking mine this Friday.