From: Rick Mur (rick@rickmur.com)
Date: Wed Feb 18 2009 - 09:07:22 ARST
I also had a chat with Bruce at Networkers. He told me that there is
not always a best solution. It depends on your answers, but other
times there IS a best solution.
They really want it to be a natural 'flow'. You are going up branches
of a tree and you don't know if it's the right branch you're on.
The passing rate is easily within the charts of any new CCIE track.
Rick Mur
CCIE #21946 (R&S)
CCNP, CCIP, JNCIA-ER, MCSE
rick@rickmur.com
On 18 feb 2009, at 11:45, sheherezada@gmail.com wrote:
> I had a chat with Russ and Bruce at Networkers. They did not know or
> did not want to tell what the passing score was. However, in the long
> run, the target passing rate is 20%, same as CCIE. I doubt that this
> would be the case with the last practical, given the level of
> difficulty that I have heard of (it seems that nothing changed since
> the beta - pizza and bonbons were there). l also heard that the
> format was the same, content was also 2/3 ISP stuff (ok, no longer
> IS-IS).
>
> The grading process is still manual, so we all have to wait 6 weeks or
> something. Anyway, they had only 28 candidates (14 in the States, 14
> in Europe), it seems. I am very curious about the outcome of the
> current session and about the level of interest in the next session.
> If you are still interested, I heard that the most typical candidate
> mistake was overlooking the background information (i.e. all solutions
> were good, but only one was the best given the constraints).
>
> Finally, I still think this is a good exam, but it has major flaws:
> - it does not provide a predictable outcome from the candidate
> perspective
> - the difficulty level is too high, the same as the amount of
> information given; this correlates with the ideal solution approach,
> which is hard to "guess" - err, figure out
> - bad marketing: my opinion is that interest is driven by the passing
> rate and deterministic results. Give a low passing rate and no
> explanation for that and you have just buried the track.
>
> HTH,
>
> Mihai Dumitru
> CCIE2 #16616
>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Roman Rodichev <roman@iementor.com>
> wrote:
>> It almost appears as Cisco is automatically passing three people
>> with the
>> top score from each attempt. Does anyone know what score the top
>> three got
>> from the first and second run>
>>
>>
>> Roman Rodichev
>> 5xCCIE #7927 (R&S, Security, Voice, Storage, Service Provider)
>> Instructor, Content Developer
>> ieMentor Corporation http://www.iementor.com
>> Y!M: roman7927
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On
>> Behalf Of Brad
>> Ellis
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:57 AM
>> To: ccie preparation; Cisco certification
>> Subject: RE: CCDE
>>
>> The results are back and three people passed.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Brad Ellis
>> CCIE#5796 (R&S / Security)
>> CCSI# 30482
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Folks,
>> Did anyone take the CCDE exam on Feb 11th from his forum? do
>> you
>> know when the results would be released?
>> Thanks
>>
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