From: Davis, Steve (steve.davis@eds.com)
Date: Wed Jan 14 2009 - 12:58:59 ARST
It's no rumor. I just verified it on the Cisco Certification Website.
http://ciscocert.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/ciscocert.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.
php?p_sid=Jv4dPUnj&p_lva=&p_li=&p_new_search=1&p_accessibility=0&p_redir
ect=&p_srch=1&p_sort_by=&p_gridsort=&p_row_cnt=173%2C173&p_prods=1964&p_
cats=&p_pv=1.1964&p_cv=&p_search_text=&p_nav=foot&p_trunc=0&p_page_head=
2&p_page=1&p_page_foot=1
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Rick Tyrell
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 8:49 AM
To: Cisco certification
Subject: Re: Changes to CCIE Lab and Written Exam Question Format and
Scoring
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=h
ome
-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
> Sr. Network Consultant
> CCIE #11071
> CCNP, CCNA, CCDA,
> NNCDS, NNCSS, CNE, MCSE
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
> Of hanan
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 12:04 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> 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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