Re: Petition: Revamp or Replace OEQ

Call the waaaaaambulance.

I passed it with the core knowledge section. Many others have too. If you
didn't pass because of the core knowledge section, Cisco intended for you to
not pass.

Play the game or get left out. Petitioning Cisco to dumb down the exam to
make people happy isn't going to work. I think the next thing they should do
is include the requirement of knowing full PDU structures.

For people who failed solely because of core knowledge, I'm sorry. Pick
yourselves back up and start again. Moaning and groaning about it just makes
you look whiny to people who had to do it. Failure is one of the things that
you must learn to accept in life, even if it is at $1400 plus travel and
lodging a pop. Just because you paid for the opportunity doesn't mean you
earned the cert.

An example, when I was going for my CCNP, I failed the ISCW 3 times before I
finally passed. On the 4th one, I thought, "I should probably just give up
on this and go get my CCIE written," but instead, I went back and took it
and finally passed it.

If you have some concrete examples (no NDA breaking, please!) of questions
that cannot be solved, I will be more than happy to find the answers for
you. I will take a maximum of 10 good questions.

Ladies and Gents, Cisco does not really want you to fail, but they DO want
to have prestige in the CCIE program.

--WM

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Darby Weaver <darby.weaver_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> Seems like we need a petition to make the point clear.
>
> Now if some of you guys don't think that some of the OEQ's are fair... I
> have to ask the question is repeating "Hearsay" even close the breaking the
> NDA?
>
> Because if I were to show you some questions that I've run across you
> might now find them so easy and if the instructors themselves can't find
> reasonable answers... in a reasonable time-frame... (Ummm.... Candidates
> only get 30 minutes for 4 of these puppies and no use of Google.com btw).
>
> I've got to ask you? Who are we trying to get to pass the CCIE Lab?
>
> Disclaimer: See the first batch of OEQ. Straight forward mostly.
>
> If your questions start asking "Why"...
>
> You might as well just hand in your lab guide and catch your plane and go
> home... Unless you know you nailed them and did not second guess
> yourself.
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