From: Jason Madsen (madsen.jason@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 05 2009 - 05:52:16 ARST
No, I believe you're allotted 30 minutes, but the instant you submit your
written question answers you're allowed to begin the lab exam.
Jason
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:47 PM, mahmoud genidy <ccie.mahmoud@gmail.com>wrote:
> Jason,
>
> If you finished the questions for example in 15 minutes, Can I proceed to
> the LAB config work, Or I will have to spend the whole 30minutes answering
> the questions before proceeding to the LAB config work?
>
> Mahmoud
>
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Jason Madsen <madsen.jason@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> True, but from my experience the 30 minutes is NOT in addition to your
>> normal lab time; it's just a dedicated 30 minutes OF your lab time. The
>> voice and security folks were typing away madly doing their labs while the
>> RS folks were doing the questions. Whether you know the answers or not
>> though, it shouldn't take more than a few minutes to do them all. There are
>> no references available for them. You'll either know the anwers or not.
>>
>> Jason
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Piotr <usaccie@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Don't stress about the questions. They are short answer questions for one
>>> question I answered with 2 words. If you are ready for the lab the questions
>>> are what you studied anyway so don't stress about them. Focus on your lab
>>> strategy.
>>>
>>> You can can go back and forth to each question and change your answer and
>>> you have an half hour to answer them.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:28 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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