From: TCP IP4 (tcp.ip4@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 04 2009 - 21:28:06 ARST
Hi Jason,
Do you take turn to answer the open ended questions or you did that in
your lab workstation? Can I ask proctor if I need more
clarifications?
Thanks and Congrats!
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Jason Madsen <madsen.jason@gmail.com> wrote:
> No, there are no references allowed for the questions. They never
> clarified about the points or weights for the questions. They really didn't
> provide any information about that part of it at all. I wish I knew.
> Although the questions are "open-ended", everyone should be prepared to
> answer very specific questions. I think that's about all I can say.
>
> Jason
>
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:54 PM, mahmoud genidy <ccie.mahmoud@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> 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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