From: Darby Weaver (ccie.weaver@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 14 2009 - 19:39:11 ARST
Does that mean these "training centers" that "guarantee a pass" now have to
give English classes too?
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:34 PM, cciestudy <cciestudy@mid-world.net> wrote:
> Anyone got numbers on how much Bejing went down?
>
> I'd guess it goes down 30-40%.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Darby Weaver
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 3:16 PM
> To: Muhabat Khan
> Cc: Cisco certification
> Subject: Re: Here comes the changes from rumor mill
>
> Not a rumor.
>
> It is gospel.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Muhabat Khan <muhabat@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I got one email from Cisco and some time ago there were some rumors
> > about this going to be there............
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > source:
> >
> >
> >
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