From: Paul Borghese (pborghese@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sat Jan 12 2002 - 03:02:41 GMT-3
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From: <Giveortake@aol.com>
To: <Bobby.Mann@roundheaven.com>; <szigeti@cisco.com>; <jay@west.net>;
<ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 10:29 PM
Subject: Re: at the lab exam
> Can someone explain to me any other type of exam where the NDA is so
strict
> and scary that individuals are afraid of discussing stratedgies on how to
> draw a lousy picture? There is no other exam that does not have
published
> material that covers
>
> 1) How many points do I need?
>
> 2) How many total points are there?
>
> 3) How is the exam marked (which is an answer that no one knows and
> probably highly subjective)? Yes I can ask for a remark by if I failed
why
> bother to spend the extra couple hundred bucks...
>
> 4) What is the structure? As in do I need to get all tasks complete in
a
> section in order to earn the points?
>
> 5) Should I draw my own picture or not?? (which frankly I believe Cisco
> should provide you a picture of the diagram that you can mark on) Just
for
> grins I wonder if the proctor would fail you for writing on the official
> diagram. OOOOPPPPSS I openly stated they may have provided me with a
> diagram. Is that a violation? Then again I said may have provided
me...
>
> Stupid as I am, I actually walked into this exam without the above
> information. Makes it very hard to pass irrespective of how good I may
or
> may not be.
>
> Please do not respond with answers to the above since I know the answers
that
> their are actually answers to. My point is simply that every
professional
> test has basic information about it widely available to the public
including
> but not limited to medical exams, Bar exams, broker exams, insurance
exams,
> CPA exams, etc. so why is Cisco so ridiculous or the cult that follows
Cisco
> so ridiculous to the point that even the above questions are considered by
> most NDA type information. After all they are not openly printed on
Cisco's
> sight which must mean they are NDA violations..... Right?
>
> There is a difference between guarding the integrity of a testing process
and
> providing basic information concerning format beyond 1day,xx routers and
xx
> switches, know everything.
>
> In my opinion the above is not testing knowledge but dedication to a
> "product" and wallet size.
>
> Hope I entertained you all....... Feel better now.
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