RE: OEQ format

Definitely Bro.

I closed by my Facebook account when people from Groupstudy from countries
that send 10 hijackers to the immediate vicinity of my office building 8 years
ago started adding me as friends.
I may have to close my group study account as well if we can't ask some really
hard technical questions and not talk about

QEQ's
MBA's
LAB SCORING

And other mindless junk

From: Darby Weaver [mailto:darby.weaver_at_gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 3:57 PM
To: Mark Matters
Cc: Joseph L. Brunner; John Gitau; botha.mike_at_gmail.com;
ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: OEQ format

Even more interesting...

OEQ are the re-cert.

If it's good enough to weed out newbie CCIE's, it will work wonders on those
who are the reason for the season...

Remember - there was a stated reason for the OEQ...

Too many passed who weren't as knowledgeable on the CLI as Cisco would like
them to be....

Why not let them re-cert on the OEQ? After 2+ years surely they've learned
this stuff by now... right?

It would be a slaughter...

Even the best we have might only score 3 of 4 and if they were to slip... on
just one more... ouch! Simple matter of interpretation and sheer
memorization skills.

Anyway - it makes sense for Cisco to use the OEQ in the future for all
CCIE's...

1. It's hard to cheat on a random set of 4 questions that span the breadth of
the IOS itself.

2. It only takes 30 minutes and not hours of the test centers time, thus
allowing test centers to take more candidates and costing Cisco less money.

- Saves Cisco money $$$
- Saves well-qualified CCIE's time... Well if they pass that is...

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Mark Matters
<markccie_at_gmail.com<mailto:markccie_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
Now wouldn't that be interesting. OEQ added to the re-cert.

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