From: Atlanta CCIE (atlantaccie@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jan 15 2009 - 21:02:59 ARST
You are right. Not all nigerians are scammers but for some reason all
scammers are nigerians :)
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Valentine Amalu <vamalu@secnetng.com>wrote:
> Hey,
> Do you guys mind? There are Nigerians on the forum, and just incase you
> don't know, we are not all scammers! Stcik to the issue at hand.
>
> Cheers,
> Valentine
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Huan
> Pham
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 8:16 PM
> To: Scott M Vermillion
> Cc: hanan; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Subject: Re: Changes to CCIE Lab and Written Exam Question Format and
> Scoring
>
> Yeah I see that now
>
> If this turns out not to be a hoax then by doing this type of communication
> practice, Cisco has greatly helped Negerian scammers in bluring the line
> between true stories & hoaxes then ;)
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 15/01/2009, at 6:58 AM, "Scott M Vermillion" <scott_ccie_list@it-ag.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> Hi Huan,
>
> The problem is that if you go to www.cisco.com and then navigate to the
> certification online support page (so that you can be confident you're not
> being directed to a bogus site), you will find a Q&A that confirms this
> change and addresses a number of questions regarding it. The e-mail is
> poorly worded, suggesting a hoax. Also, this is not in alignment with
> Cisco's general practice of announcing changes six months out, further
> raising suspicions (at least in some of us). However, unless someone has
> hacked Cisco's online cert support site, it appears to be authentic...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Scott
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Huan Pham [mailto:pnhuan@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 12:47 PM
> To: Scott M Vermillion
> Cc: hanan; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Subject: Re: Changes to CCIE Lab and Written Exam Question Format and
> Scoring
>
> Can't agree more! It's a hoax
>
> Based on responses from this highly technical list, i guess Nigerean
> scammers will continue to be able to make easy money by sending scam
> emails!!!!
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 15/01/2009, at 2:39 AM, "Scott M Vermillion" <scott_ccie_list@it-ag.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> Have to admit that my initial reaction was that this must be a forged
> e-mail
> based on the following passage:
>
> "The exams are not been increased in difficulty..."
>
> Not exactly the kind of grammatical gymnastics you would expect to see in
> an
> official communiqui from Cisco.
>
> However, there is now a Q&A session at the Online Support page:
>
> http://ciscocert.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/ciscocert.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php
> ?
> p_sid=*_D94Vnj
>
> No mention of any changes to the written to be found there as yet...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> hanan
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 1:04 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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