From: sheherezada@gmail.com
Date: Tue Feb 17 2009 - 20:50:35 ARST
Cisco did it years ago when the lab was two days. Back then, I was
told, you had a troubleshooting day and proctors used to ask you
questions when they graded the exam. Then, I suppose, Cisco wanted
more candidates, moved to one-day format and... screwed it up.
Mihai
On 2/16/09, Radioactive Frog <pbhatkoti@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not concerned that legitimate students with CCIE level
> knowledge and ability will still pass and students shouldn't be concerned
> either. To that end the attention given to this section of the exam is
> disproportionate and will hopefully abate soon.
>
>
> Totally agreed with Jared. Cisco should have done it ages ago
> I bet, there won't be as many R&S CCIE as you are seeing these days.
>
> Why Voice CCIE are under 1K? (apart from the fact its tough! and was release
> late).
>
> Every learns from the mistakes they make, so is the Cisco.
>
> My .000000000001cent
> -frog
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Jared Scrivener
> <jscrivener@ipexpert.com>wrote:
>
>> My hope for having questions prior to the lab (as it was when they were
>> verbal) was that those who failed them wouldn't get to attempt the lab and
>> thus permit the braindump providers' candidates to have more labs to add
>> to
>> their materials.
>>
>> The original objective (unstated officially, of course) of the verbal (now
>> written) questions was to stop braindump providers sending candidates into
>> the lab to memorize questions, and for the users of such materials to pass
>> having used them. Unfortunately, due to the need to formalize these
>> questions and offer them globally (rather than in targeted testing
>> centers)
>> it seems that the first aim is less likely to be achieved.
>>
>> That being said, I'm not concerned that legitimate students with CCIE
>> level
>> knowledge and ability will still pass and students shouldn't be concerned
>> either. To that end the attention given to this section of the exam is
>> disproportionate and will hopefully abate soon.
>>
>> Read your books, do your rack time and ask questions and with dedication
>> to
>> the process a pass will eventuate (eventually). :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jared Scrivener CCIE3 #16983 (R&S, Security, SP), CISSP
>> Technical Instructor - IPexpert, Inc.
>> Telephone: +1.810.326.1444
>> Fax: +1.810.454.0130
>> Mailto: jscrivener@ipexpert.com
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
>> Jason Madsen
>> Sent: Sunday, 15 February 2009 10:23 PM
>> To: Thameem Maranveetil Parambath
>> Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>> Subject: Re: Fw: Why is Open Ended Question in the Begining of the lab?
>>
>> personally, they only took me a couple of minutes to complete and I felt
>> far
>> more relaxed having completed them prior to the lab. I know I wouldn't
>> want to do the questions after an 8 hour lab.
>>
>> Jason
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Thameem Maranveetil Parambath <
>> tparamba@thecontactcentre.ae> wrote:
>>
>> > Guys,
>> >
>> > I was wondering why cisco preffered to put the open ended question
>> > before
>> > the actual lab take?
>> >
>> > It is of common sense that we need not need to attempt the lab even if
>> one
>> > question out of 4 is wrong in that section.
>> >
>> > It would have been better if we could attend this questions after we
>> > finish the lab as we could feel more confident .
>> >
>> > Whats your views on this?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Thameem
>> >
>> >
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