From: Yandy Ramirez (yandyr@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 14 2009 - 19:38:30 ARST
To me this is an awesome idea, beside weeding out the bad. just imagine all
the confidence you'll get for job interviews later if you do well on those
questions or felt comfortable with them. ;)
Yandy Ramirez
yandyr@gmail.com
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Tony Varriale
<tvarriale@flamboyaninc.com>wrote:
> I think it will impact less than 10%. But, even if it doesn't, I think
> what
> will be more interesting is how it affects which tracks and which
> locations.
>
> FYI, you used to be able to call TAC from your lab exam. :)
>
> tv
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Darby Weaver
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 3:14 PM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: Changes to CCIE Lab and Written Exam Question Format and
> Scoring
>
> It's about time.
>
> The email is no hoax and it is real.
>
> The open-ended questions for all tracks. - SUPER-DUPER!!!
>
>
> Let's see how many CCIE's are made in February?
>
> My guess is the number goes down significantly. Any takers? I think I'm
> goign to run a betting pool on this one.
>
> So many people took the short road. Now that road has a ver sharp fork in
> the middle.
>
> Now this kills the problem of "memorization" the proctors spoke of on my
> last trip to th magical kingdom.
>
> Yes it suck for those who can't speak English and take the exam (I kinda
> wondered what happens on TAC Support calls from these CCIE's, but hey
> that's
> just me).
>
>
> Let's face it a lot of people tried to take the short road and about like
> 90
> days worth of poor souls who sought to take the fast-track to CCIE based on
> whatever they believed was a real lab are now just going to fall into a
> crevice and not be able t get their money back.
>
> Ouch!
>
> The number of 1st timers will drop during this period.
>
> It's kinda like what happens when the first wave has to go and dive into
> the
> land mines tor on the barbed wire so the rest can crawl over.
>
> Sucks to be one of the sacraficial lambs.
>
>
> Wait...
>
> This means since it is verbal - it can change without notice too...
>
> Kinda kewl and interesting but how would we know since we are all honoring
> the NDA anyway.
>
> Hah!
>
> Love this stuff.
>
> ==========================================
>
> Look the guys who I know who were CCIE's when they went to take their labs
> -
> were CCIE's whether or not they had the paper.
>
> Those other guys... well they had to wait a while after they passed the
> CCIE Lab to "be" CCIE's and some may never be. Sorry it's how the cookie
> crumbles.
>
>
> ==========================================
>
> Now if they'll just bring back the hands-on component - betcha that would
> break some hearts... Hah!
>
>
>
> My opinion: It's about time.
>
> Think of this "those gunmen" won't even be able to touch a rack if this is
> true.
>
> Interesting. It's kind of like the old day where you needed "X amount of
> Points" to get to Day-2.
>
>
> Technically Cisco did give some people about 6 months to prep for this kind
> of verbal review. So it's been out there.
>
>
> I just remember the recent article that said 11 times the number of CCIE's
> from outside the USA. We only had 8 that month. Which is probably
> consistent with other months since the program started.
>
> Most of the people I know of in the US tend to spend considerable amounts
> of
> time in prep (years) and I'm not sure this is true everywhere.
>
>
> Think of this: If the number of people wanting to take a lab exam drops
> from say 16 per day any site to like 1-2 per day, then Cisco might change
> this program since it needs CCIE's.
>
>
> Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
>
> _______________________________________________________________________
> Subscription information may be found at:
> http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html
>
>
> Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
>
> _______________________________________________________________________
> Subscription information may be found at:
> http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html
Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Sun Mar 01 2009 - 09:43:38 ARST