From: Scott Strobeck (scott@strobeck.net)
Date: Fri Jan 16 2009 - 20:21:20 ARST
Oh come on!!! Please do your due diligence and find this information on
the Cisco web site before spreading these rumors. I challenge you to
find this information on www.cisco.com.
Scott
Muhabat Khan 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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