From: mahmoud genidy (ccie.mahmoud@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 04 2009 - 20:54:32 ARST
I agree with you that you may not be lucky and get the question in some area
you are not well prepared for.
But will we have access to the DOC CD during the open-ended questions
section as well?
Also how many points or wehight does this section have?
Mahmoud.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Jason Madsen <madsen.jason@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All, I was actually trying to avoid talking about the Open Ended
> question, because I don't know what the NDA even allows me to discuss or
> not
> discuss about them and even though I just had them I still don't know much
> about how they are used in the testing process. I will say that personally
> the questions were not difficult, but I'm sure that there's is a very huge
> pool of them so in my opinion there's no telling what a person may get. I
> still don't even know how they're graded or how that grade, if it exists,
> affects your overall lab results. Maybe they're being vague about things
> on
> purpose...I don't know. They are, just as their name implies, open-ended.
> No multiple choice...no interviews...just questions that you read and
> provide a typed response to. I agree with Cisco's statement, that CCIE
> candidates *should *be able to answer them without much difficulty, but
> what
> if someone just so happens to get the handful of questions that they hadn't
> prepared for as much as they should have even though they may have spent a
> year or more studying / testing / labbing? I'm sure something needs to be
> done if there are integrity problems with the lab material, but I just
> don't
> know that these open ended questions is the solution they're looking for.
>
> Jason
>
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