From: Piotr (usaccie@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Jan 17 2009 - 01:26:57 ARST
They finally posted it:
http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/ccie/index.html
Updates to the 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.
Candidates will also see two other changes to the CCIE written exams.
Effective February 17th, 2009, candidates will be required to answer each
question before moving on to the next question. In other words, candidates
will no longer be allowed to skip a question and come back to it at a later
time. Finally, there will be an update to the overall score report. The
overall exam score and the exam passing score will now be reported on a
scale from 300-1000.
To find out more information regarding updates to the CCIE Lab and scoring
format, access the CCIE Q&A session in the link below.
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Scott Strobeck <scott@strobeck.net> wrote:
> You were told this from Howard and Robert, first hand?
>
> The last time I was there, Howard was telling us to spread the news that
> the doc site was changing from univercd to the newer format.
>
> Allright, I'll bite. But I'm still confused as to why this isn't on the
> cisco CCIE site. It could be because it's part of the exam, itself.
> Just more questions. There's nowhere in the cisco CCIE site that
> describes what types of questions are *supposed* to be on the exam. . .
> We just either know because we've taken it or we assume because we've
> done so many friggin' practice labs.
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
>
> Peter Grewal wrote:
> > Well,
> >
> > If you need further proof, how about the proctors as RTP confirming this
> as
> > well. Both Howard and Robert confirmed that starting Feb 1, 2009 a series
> of
> > questions will be asked at the start of the lab.
> >
> > As for the website you are referring to, I think it's pretty legitimate
> > given the fact that its linked off Cisco.com, and I use it to confirm
> > information regarding other Cisco certs.
> >
> > Also, from what I've been reading, a series of question will be posed to
> the
> > candidate, which will require written responses. The answers will then be
> > marked by the proctor as part of the overall grading of the lab. If a
> > candidate requests a reread, then a second proctor will review the
> answers
> > submitted.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Peter.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> > Scott Strobeck
> > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 9:47 PM
> > Cc: Cisco certification
> > Subject: Re: Here comes the changes from rumor mill
> >
> > I may have to recant. Although I'm not familiar with
> > ciscocert.custhelp.com, the page *appears* to be legitimate. I can't be
> > certain who is actually posting these "answers", however. I found quite
> > a few Cisco-internal pages referring to the site, as well as several on
> CCO.
> >
> > I also found an internal Cisco newsgroup where an employee posted a
> > newsletter making the same claim. However, the newsletter seems to have
> > originated from ciscocert.custhelp.com. So, again, this goes back to
> > the legitimacy of this site.
> >
> > Here's the problem I *still* have with this. Cisco does a pretty good
> > job of making announcements of changes to the www.cisco.com/ccie site.
> > It's not there, so I'm still skeptical.
> >
> > Anyway, I'm not too worried about these questions, whether they exist or
> > not. If I'm prepared enough to pass the actual lab, then I doubt that
> > the questions will be able to stump me. . . . I hope.
> >
> > Anyway, the change is supposed to happen on 2/1. . .so we'll know soon
> > enough. . . it would seem prudent to get yourself mentally prepared for
> > these questions.
> >
> > Scott
> >
> > Henry Ugwuadu wrote:
> >
> >> Hello Guys,
> >>
> >> This discussion started from this url: "ciscocert.custhelp.com"
> >>
> >> When you do nslookup for this url, you will get the following IP
> >> Address for the url:
> >>
> >>
> >> Macintosh:~ henry$ nslookup ciscocert.custhelp.com
> >> Server: 172.30.0.40
> >> Address: 172.30.0.40#53
> >>
> >> Non-authoritative answer:
> >> Name: ciscocert.custhelp.com
> >> Address: 216.136.168.73
> >>
> >> Next do nslookup for "www.cisco.com", you will get this IP Address for
> >> the url..
> >>
> >>
> >> Macintosh:~ henry$ nslookup www.cisco.com
> >> Server: 172.30.0.40
> >> Address: 172.30.0.40#53
> >>
> >> Non-authoritative answer:
> >> Name: www.cisco.com
> >> Address: 198.133.219.25
> >>
> >> Next go to "www.dnsstuff.com" and plug in the above IP Addresses, you
> >> will discover that "ciscocert.custhelp.com" does not have any
> >> connection with CISCO. You will see that it was registered by a HIDDEN
> >> identity. On the other hand, you will discover that www.cisco.com was
> >> duly registered by Cisco.
> >>
> >> HTH.
> >>
> >> Henry.
> >>
> >> On 16 Jan 2009, at 23:21, Scott Strobeck wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> 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:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >
> http://ciscocert.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/ciscocert.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php
> ?
> >
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> >
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> > earch_text=&srch_btn_submit=
> >
> >>>> Search &p_new_search=1
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> >>>>
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