From: Bryan in Richmond (bryaninrichmond@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 26 2003 - 11:00:03 GMT-3
What are you guys using to do the recert? Are there any books tailored to
the test or are you studying all of the course material? Any help is
appreciated. I have to recert by next Feb. ugh...
Thanks!
Bryan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Miller" <michael.a.miller@att.net>
To: "'Jay Hennigan'" <jay@west.net>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 3:28 AM
Subject: RE: CCNP recert harder than CCIE written
> I think cisco has determined that we already have much too much free time
on
> our hands and want to ensure that network experts don't have any
> disillusionment of having a "life".
>
> Mike
>
> p.s. I just passed the ccnp recert, and it was a pain in the butt.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Jay
> Hennigan
> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 10:03 PM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: CCNP recert harder than CCIE written
>
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Pratt, Jeremy wrote:
>
> > I just recertified my CCNP today as I haven't gone to the lab yet. I
found
> > that this test was harder than the IE written that I took 6 months ago.
> > Based on the input I received from my IE friends they advised that the
IE
> > recert was harder than the original time they took it, one of the IE's
is
> in
> > the 2000's and recerted twice now.
> >
> > I'd say that based on all of this that Cisco is clearing the rif raf and
> > wannabe's from the ranks.
>
> I just took and passed the CCIE Security written which qualifies as an
> R & S (or any CCIE) recert. It's fairly tough, but I found that it
> followed the blueprint on the Cisco website.
>
> There are two types of "hard" when it comes to this type of test. Hard
> as in it thoroughly tests your knowledge in depth and diversity, and
> hard as in it's difficult to comprehend exactly what the questions and
> or answer choices are because they're ambiguous or poorly worded.
>
> I'm finding that the written tests seem to be more clearly written
> now than in the past, but seem to be more thorough in terms of testing
> for depth and diversity. Meaning that if you know the material well
> they're less hard. If you don't they're harder. In other words,
> better tests of your knowledge. No more double and triple negatives
> like "Which of the following is not false?" with answer choices that
> have "don't" or "never" in them. Grrrrr.
>
> > Does anyone know if the NP and DP gives you more access to areas of CCO
> like
> > the IE does. I've heard about this but didn't find anything extra.
>
> I don't believe so.
>
> I've heard that an IE recert automatically renews your NP and DP now,
> but haven't seen my NP/DP status update yet. The NA/NP/DA/DP and IE were
> at one time totally separate programs. If IE recert now renews the NP/DP,
> that's a welcome change.
>
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