From: Darby Weaver (darbyweaver@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Feb 17 2008 - 10:46:00 ARST
Tanvir,
I've heard lots of numbers of how many labs are
actually in production at the same time. And I have
my own thoughts as well.
Perhaps one day when Cisco offers me a position on the
exam development team I might be able to make that
difference. :)
Later
Let's face it the program has guidelines and costs
money to be what it is. It is the most highly
regarded certification there is - or at least in my
little book. I have other certs, but this is the one
I've enjoyed the most so far.
--- Tanvir Afsar <tanvir.afsar@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi..
> Is it not the voilation of NDA to acknowledge that
> some vendors of the
> illicit material are "dead on" and that too from a
> cisco rep?
>
> If it is so and they know it then why proclaim it...
>
> If I was really interested in protecting the
> sanctity of the lab, I
> would make a set of tasks that would be compatible
> with each other so
> that I can mix and match the tasks in a given lab
> and therefore make
> each lab unique
>
> this way if a test is leaked you can trace it to the
> one who actually
> broke the NDA by leaking it.
>
> lets suppose there are 10 sections in a lab with 3
> sub sections each
> lets say we have two possible questions for each
> subsection then we can
> have
> 2^10 = 1073741824 combinations of tasks
> with 7 test centers testing 6 candidates 7*6= 42
> unique sets a day
> 42*5=210 unique tests a week and 210*52=10920
> unique sets for a year
>
> Six months of such pattern and the illicit lab
> business will be on their
> knees with people getting "DE CERTIFIED" due to
> trace back.
>
> Now there Will be people who do it for the money and
> don't care if they
> are debarred from certification .. But then with so
> many unique
> combinations their will be no "Dead ons"
>
> Disclaimer..Its just an idea..I have NO experience
> of making a lab and
> don't know if such a format could be made.
> Would be so much better if it could happen.
>
> Tanvir
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