Re: Changes to CCIE Lab and Written Exam Question Format and

From: Beau Hahn (bhahn1986@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 16 2009 - 02:03:58 ARST

Feb 4th...booked in October. Not very happy about the added
uncertainty...but I have faith.

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Scott Morris <
smorris@internetworkexpert.com> wrote:

> But you're back to real life now. There's a lot of stuff that oozes out of
> ones' head after passing the CCIE lab! however, in the midst of studying
> for the lab, I believe you would have known that off the top of your head
> because god only knows what kind of messed up question the lab will ask
> you!
>
> I suppose you MAY have chosen to put that in a "I'll look it up" category,
> but too many of those kills lots of time.
>
> I'm having to rethink what "open-ended" questions around the CCIE structure
> are. I haven't had enough to drink yet tonight to validate my thinking.
> ;)
>
> Scott
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bogdan Sass [mailto:bogdan.sass@catc.ro]
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:05 PM
> To: Scott Morris; Cisco certification
> Subject: Re: Changes to CCIE Lab and Written Exam Question Format and
> Scoring
>
> Scott Morris wrote:
> > However, if I asked you "Please tell me the default OSPF network type on
> a
> > frame-relay physical interface and what timers are associated with that"
> are
> > you telling me that after months/years of studying for the lab exam that
> you
> > could not answer that?
> >
> Actually, this is _exactly_ the kind of questions I would be afraid
> of. Why? Because I recently passed my CCIE RS exam, and yet I don't know
> the default timers Cisco uses for various protocols on various interface
> types.
> Why is that? Because I do not need that information in order to
> _configure_ and _troubleshoot_ that protocol (which should be the
> primary objective of the CCIE lab exam). I know that those timers exist.
> I know that for some protocols mismatching timers can lead to neighbors
> not establishing an adjacency. Therefore, I know that when my neighbors
> do not come up, one of the things I need to check is the value of the
> timers on both ends.
> However, I really don't see a situation in which I need to know that
> "Cisco uses a default hello interval of 10 seconds for OSPF on broadcast
> links". Even if I am required not to change the hello time on one end of
> the link, I can still go to that router, do a "sh ip ospf int", and see
> the current value.
>
> --
> Bogdan Sass
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> Information Systems Security Professional
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