From: Jason Madsen (madsen.jason@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 04 2009 - 21:37:43 ARST
It's all done at your individual workstation. Yes, the proctors I met at
RTP at least would definitely clarfiy things for you if needed. They seemed
very professional and responsive to questions.
Jason
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:28 PM, TCP IP4 <tcp.ip4@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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