From: Jonny English (redkidneybeans@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jan 15 2009 - 22:17:45 ARST
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On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Atlanta CCIE <atlantaccie@gmail.com>wrote:
> You just stated " I believe people are free to express how they feel". Then
> you are telling me that I should keep it to myself. I am doing exactly what
> you stated. Have a great day.
>
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Valentine Amalu <vamalu@secnetng.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Atlantaccie,
> > IMO, I believe people are free to express how they feel about this
> change,
> > so please stop telling them they are whining! If you don't like the way
> the
> > sound, keep it to yourself.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Valentine
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> > Atlanta CCIE
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 4:50 PM
> > To: Howard Hooper
> > Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > Subject: Re: Changes to CCIE Lab and Written Exam Question Format and
> > Scoring
> >
> > Why is everyone making a BIG deal out of this? Go study and learn the
> > technologies and pass! Who created the ORIGINAL CCIE EXAM? Cisco did? ok
> > good. They also decided that we get EIGHT hours and not 10 or 6 correct?
> > Did
> > we complain then? NO.
> >
> > Cisco KNOWS how long it takes to finish the exam so IF they are adding
> some
> > interview questions, I am SURE they will make sure that they are NOT
> > wasting
> > our time.
> >
> > Get back to your books folks. Don't be wasting time whining here because
> it
> > only makes you looik like one of those dump-using-CCIEs ;)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Howard Hooper
> > <Howard.Hooper@dupre.co.uk>wrote:
> >
> > > Does anyone know how much of the overall score at the end of the day is
> > > given to these questions? I may have misunderstood some of the posts
> but
> > > it sounds like if you fail on the questions then you have no (or at
> > > least a very small) chance of passing the lab?
> > >
> > > Do you think this may turn out to be similar to the original 2-day lab
> > > where if a candidate didn't pass the grade on the first day they were
> > > told to not come in for the second i.e. if you don't reach a certain
> > > score on the questions then the proctor will tell you your better off
> > > leaving now?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
> Of
> > > Scott Morris
> > > Sent: 14 January 2009 16:27
> > > To: 'Tony Schaffran (GS)'; 'hanan'; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > > Subject: RE: Changes to CCIE Lab and Written Exam Question Format and
> > > Scoring
> > >
> > > I would discount it as one department not keeping up with the others.
> > > :)
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
> Of
> > > Tony
> > > Schaffran (GS)
> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 9:31 AM
> > > To: 'hanan'; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > > Subject: RE: Changes to CCIE Lab and Written Exam Question Format and
> > > Scoring
> > >
> > > 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
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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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