From: Dale Shaw (dale.shaw@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 25 2009 - 02:14:34 ARST
Hi,
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Jason Madsen <madsen.jason@gmail.com> wrote:
> best case scenario is that you get a set of simple open ended
> questions and have a bunch of timers, codes, metrics, and things in your
> brain that you didn't necessarily need. i mean what can a devoted few weeks
> focused on open ended question prep' hurt after studying who knows how long
> for the lab portion? worse case scenario otherwise is that you devote a
> year or twenty in lab preparation only, smoke the lab portion, and then fail
> overall due to a few written questions because of not revisiting default
> values, timers, codes and whatnot.
<general rant>
If I'm asked any short answer questions that requires me to have
committed to memory the value of a default timer (or any other
hard-coded value) I can discover in 3 seconds with a 'show' command, I
will be bitterly, bitterly disappointed. I may or may not know it, but
if I don't, in Cisco's view, does that mean I'm not worthy of being a
CCIE?
I hope that was just a example you plucked out of the air, and not
based on an anecdote you got from someone who's encountered something
like that in these new questions.
Argh, that'd be the last thing we need -- more "memorisable" content.
cheers,
Dale
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