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

From: The Great Ryan (pv.ryan@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 16 2009 - 04:43:41 ARST

It is good news!
Hopefully, this changes can differentiate between qualified and fake
candidates.

2009/1/16 Beau Hahn <bhahn1986@gmail.com>

> 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
> > CCAI,CCSP,JNCIA-ER,CCIE #22221 (RS)
> > Information Systems Security Professional
> > "Curiosity was framed - ignorance killed the cat"
> >
> >
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