Fail on Aaron's Worthless Words

CCIE R&S Written - Epic Fail (Again)

Sun, 07 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Yes, I failed. I think it’s pretty typical when you’re at Cisco Live, you stay out drinking and smoking cigars until 01:00, then you sit the exam at 08:00 the next morning. Considering the situation I put myself in, I wasn’t very optimistic about passing, but I figured I had maybe a 40% chance to pass since I didn’t really even study. Are you sensing a theme of ill-preparedness and self-sabotage? Yeah, me, too.

Stubby Post - Final Tally of 3750 Failures

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

It’s pretty widely known that I hate Cisco 3750 switches. We’ve had so many hardware and software failures with them that I’ve got a seriously bad taste in my mouth. Since I’m leaving for a new company, I thought I’d publish some statistics while I still have access to the numbers.

Total TAC cases online casino usa european roulette opened related to 3750s: 21 Number of 3750G-12S-S replaced: 21 Number of 3750G-24TS replaced: 7 Total number of RMAs issued: 28 Total number of 3750s in the company: ~120 Failure rate: 23.3%

SWITCH - Epic Fail

Thu, 06 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

I did my standard 2ish-hour drive to the closest testing center today to take the SWTCH test (642-813). Utter failure. That’s 3 for those scoring at home.

The test was the absolute worst I’ve ever taken. I know that I complain a lot, but this is totally justified in my eyes. My 4th grade spelling tests were better than this. I’ve seen kindergarten plays with better production value.

First of all, it was poorly written. Whoever wrote those questions has a few pieces of information about English sentence structure missing from their skill set. A sentence needs a verb, right? Well, a lot of the sentences were missing those. It’s kind of important to know what the whole point of the sentence is, or is that too much to ask? The “drag this over here” exercise questions all started with the same 13-word phrase that left the question so long that it was unreadable. A couple of commas would have been nice in some. Others I just had to infer from the answers what they were trying to ask.

ONT - Epic Fail Part 3

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

It’s not what you think.

I was talking with a buddy online last night, and he made a good point. If you keep putting off taking a test, you’ll never make any progress. I took that to heart, went online, and scheduled another sitting of ONT for today at 3pm at the closest center. I took the day off, too, so I could get some tax stuff done and get over to the center and back before dinner. I got some really good rest last night for sure, too, and had some very productive study time before heading off for my day’s adventures.