Re: Changes to CCIE Lab and Written Exam Question Format and

From: Rick Tyrell (rtyrell@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 14 2009 - 12:49:06 ARST


I hope it is just a rumor.
My LAB is scheduled Feb. 10th. So yeah a little more notice would of been
nice? On the upside at least Cisco didn't just file for bankruptcy -

Nortel files for bankruptcy:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aWAnpcreboWE&refer=home
-Rick

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Tony Schaffran (GS) <
groupstudy@cconlinelabs.com> wrote:

> Since I do not see this on the official Cisco CCIE news web site,
>
> http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/ccie/announcements/index.html
>
> I have to discount it as rumor.
>
>
> Tony Schaffran
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> Subject: Changes to CCIE Lab and Written Exam Question Format and Scoring
>
> Changes to CCIE Lab and Written Exam Question Format and Scoring
>
> Effective February 1, 2009, Cisco will introduce a new type of question
> format to CCIE Routing and Switching lab exams. In addition to the live
> configuration scenarios, candidates will be asked a series of four or five
> open-ended questions, drawn from a pool of questions based on the material
> covered on the lab blueprint. No new topics are being added. The exams are
> not been increased in difficulty and the well-prepared candidate should
> have
> no trouble answering the questions. The length of the exam will remain
> eight
> hours. Candidates will need to achieve a passing score on both the
> open-ended questions and the lab portion in order to pass the lab and
> become
> certified. Other CCIE tracks will change over the next year, with exact
> dates announced in advance.
>
>
> Effective February 17th, 2009, candidates will also see two other changes
> in
> CCIE written exams. First, candidates will now be required to answer each
> question before moving on to the next question; candidates will no longer
> be
> allowed to skip a question and come back to it at a later time. Second,
> there will be an update to the score report. The overall exam score and the
> exam passing score will now be reported as a scaled score, on a scale from
> 300-1000. This change will not affect the difficulty of the current set of
> exams and will assure CCIE written exams will be consistent with Cisco's
> other career certification exams.
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