From: b r (broy79@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 20 2008 - 20:36:54 ARST
Did the Cisco employee ever mention them coming up with a list of banned
test vendors? For example a while back i bought a practice test for another
networking companies certification exam. The vendor that I purchased the
practice test from is very well known and respected. To my surprise there
were many questions on this practice test that were almost identical on the
real test. Iam not an idiot if the vendor boasts of actual exam questions
from the real test I know to stay away from it, but this one didnt. If
Cisco would list approved and banned vendors this subject would be more cut
and dry, but without that for them to search for route-map names and prefix
list names is ridiculous.
Roy
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Darby Weaver <darbyweaver@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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