Re: How much detailed an OEQ Answer should be?

Darby,

Not sure I understand your reply buddy. Can you clarify with us what you
have heard please? Explaining in such a way that communicates that you know
the information should always be a good way to do it no matter what it is
they want to know.

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Darby Weaver <darby.weaver_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> I'd like to agree...
>
> However based on a repeated conversation with a proctor - I'm inclined to
> agree to disagree on this one.
>
> The new deck seems to now ask what but why.
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> On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Joe Astorino <jastorino_at_ipexpert.com>wrote:
>
>> My personal recommendation is to answer enough to where you have explained
>> the technology and have communicated that you know what you are talking
>> about. In this case, I would probably right a short sentence or two about
>> the TTL not just what the acronym stands for. Could you write just what
>> the
>> acronym stands for and still get credit? I don't know, so I'd be safe and
>> communicate that not only do I know what it stands for, but I know what it
>> actually does.
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 11:04 PM, CCIE League <ccieleague_at_ymail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > Experts,
>> >
>> >
>> > Where to end the answer of the "open ended" Qs...
>> >
>> >
>> > e.g If the question is : What is TTL?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Should we say:
>> >
>> > - It's Time To Live.... Full stop & move to next question??
>> >
>> > or say
>> >
>> > -The Time to Live (TTL) field prevents "lost" packets from being passed
>> > endlessly through the IP network.
>> >
>> > or add
>> >
>> > -The field contains an 8-bit integer that is set by the originator of
>> the
>> > packet. Each router through which the packet passes will decrement the
>> > integer by one.
>> >
>> > or also add
>> >
>> > -If a router decrements the TTL to zero, it will discard the packet and
>> > send an ICMP "time exceeded" error message to the packet's source
>> address.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Could someone shed some light on this?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Ta,
>> >
>> >
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