Newsflash: CCIE Written Exam format totally changed....!!

From: damien (damien@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Tue Aug 15 2000 - 19:52:38 GMT-3


   
   Refer to some of the Questions off Cisco's Web Site for the New CCIE
   Written......just keeps getting Harder... :~)......I thought this was
   quite amusing.....!!!!
   
   They are as follows:
   1. Describe the history of the papacy from its origin to the present
   day, concentrating especially, but not exclusively, on its social,
   political,economic, religious, and philosophical impact on Europe,
   Asia, America,
   and Africa. Be brief, concise, and specific.
   2. You have been provided with a razor blade, a piece of gauze, and a
   bottle of Jack Daniels. Remove your appendix. Do not suture until
   your
   work has been inspected. You have 10 minutes.
   3. 2500 riot-crazed aborigines are storming the room. Calm them.
   You
   may use any ancient language except Latin or Greek.
   4. Create life. Estimate the differences in subsequent human culture
   if
   this form of life had developed 500 million years earlier, with
   special
   attention to its probable effect on the English Parliamentary System.
   Prove your thesis.
   5. Write a piano concerto. Orchestrate and perform it with flute and
   drum. You will find a piano under your chair.
   6. Based on your knowledge of their works, evaluate the emotional
   stability, degree of adjustment, and repressed frustrations of each of
   the following:
   a. Alexander of Aphrodisias
   b. Ramses II
   c. Gregory of Nicea
   d. Iammurati
   Support your evaluation with quotations from each man's work, making
   appropriate references. It is not necessary to translate.
   7. Estimate the sociological problems which might accompany the end
   of
   the world. Construct an experiment to test your theory.
   8. Define management. Define Science. How do they relate? Why?
   Create a generalized algorithm to optimize all managerial decisions.
   Assuming an IBM 3270 with 257 Radio Shack and Panasonic terminals and
   each terminal to activate your algorithm. Design the communications
   interface and all the necessary control programs.
   9. The disassembled parts of a high-powered rifle have been placed in
   a
   box on your desk. You will also find an instruction manual printed in
   Swahili. In 5 minutes, a hungry Bengal tiger will be admitted to the
   room. Take whatever action you feel appropriate. Be prepared to
   justify
   your decision.
   10. There is a red telephone on the desk beside you. Start WWIII.
   Report at length on its socio-political effects, if any.
   11. Take a position for or against truth. Prove the validity of your
   position.
   12. Explain the nature of matter. Include in your answer an
   evaluation
   of the impact of the development of mathematics on science.
   13. Sketch the development of human thought. Estimate its
   significance.
   Compare this with the development of any other kind of thought.
   Extra Credit:
   Define the universe. Give three examples



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