Cisco 360 CIERS1 - Review

This week i had the pleasure to take the CIERS1 course.
On the first day, i've done my first CCIE-like lab ever. The CIERS1-CA-LAB01.
My Score was 71/100 (Cisco states an average score on all attendants of 53/100)
So i think this was quite good for the first time.
Day 2-4 we had some lectures and smaller technology focussed labs (BGP,QoS,Multicast etc.)
But on the fifth day i made a momentous mistake, i didn't take the CIERS-CA-LAB02 guide to to the tasks. I  used the CIERS-CA-LAB01-guide. So i wasted 3,5 hours on doing CIERS-CA-LAB01 on a preconfigured network for the CIERS-CA-LAB02. I wondered about the wrong configured IPs, but didn't thought about it too long. I was just hunting for full IGP reachability. After 3 hours i had full IGP reachability and realized that i used the wrong lab guide. This made my day. I was so frustrated, that i didn't had passion to really start again.
I was very angry about myself. I did a write-erase-reload on every device and started again. But now with CIERS1-CA-LAB02-guide. My motivation was below -39843 and i only got 14 out of 75 point. I'm really pissed. I mean really really pissed.

So remind -> ALWAYS READ THE ENTIRE LAB BEFORE YOU START !!!!!!
 ALWAYS!!!!!!!!

The course consisted of 30 % lecture and 70 % labs.
- 1. Day - Assesment Lab (Frame Relay, Catalyst Configuration, IGP (OSPF,EIGRP,RIP), Reistribution,BGP)
- 2. Day - Review Assesment Lab and Technologys, Advanced BGP Lab (a bad next-hop issue)
- 3. Day - Review BGP, Review MPLS, Review Multicast, Multicast Lab
- 4. Day - Review QoS, QoS Lab, Troubleshooting Lab (CIERS-TA-LAB02 - 2 hours)
- 5. Day - Configuration Lab (CIERS-CA-LAB02 - 6 hours), Review Lab

My recommodations before go for the course :
- Master the Frame Relay-thing. I think younger network engineers (like me) don't understand Frame Relay at all, because they never ever used it. Frame-Relay is contained in every lab, i think. I will have to study on this section, especially the different ways of running OSPF over Frame Relay
- do a lot of small technology based-labs (master IGP) before you attend the course
- don't go there just after the written exam, the written exam is a piece of shit. Further study in every topic is necessary to get most out of CIERS1 (after this week, i have to admit that it was to early to attend this course)