From: Atlanta CCIE (atlantaccie@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jan 15 2009 - 21:24:45 ARST
You just stated " I believe people are free to express how they feel". Then
you are telling me that I should keep it to myself. I am doing exactly what
you stated. Have a great day.
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Valentine Amalu <vamalu@secnetng.com>wrote:
> Atlantaccie,
> IMO, I believe people are free to express how they feel about this change,
> so please stop telling them they are whining! If you don't like the way the
> sound, keep it to yourself.
>
> Cheers,
> Valentine
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Atlanta CCIE
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 4:50 PM
> To: Howard Hooper
> Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: Changes to CCIE Lab and Written Exam Question Format and
> Scoring
>
> Why is everyone making a BIG deal out of this? Go study and learn the
> technologies and pass! Who created the ORIGINAL CCIE EXAM? Cisco did? ok
> good. They also decided that we get EIGHT hours and not 10 or 6 correct?
> Did
> we complain then? NO.
>
> Cisco KNOWS how long it takes to finish the exam so IF they are adding some
> interview questions, I am SURE they will make sure that they are NOT
> wasting
> our time.
>
> Get back to your books folks. Don't be wasting time whining here because it
> only makes you looik like one of those dump-using-CCIEs ;)
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Howard Hooper
> <Howard.Hooper@dupre.co.uk>wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know how much of the overall score at the end of the day is
> > given to these questions? I may have misunderstood some of the posts but
> > it sounds like if you fail on the questions then you have no (or at
> > least a very small) chance of passing the lab?
> >
> > Do you think this may turn out to be similar to the original 2-day lab
> > where if a candidate didn't pass the grade on the first day they were
> > told to not come in for the second i.e. if you don't reach a certain
> > score on the questions then the proctor will tell you your better off
> > leaving now?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> > Scott Morris
> > Sent: 14 January 2009 16:27
> > To: 'Tony Schaffran (GS)'; 'hanan'; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > Subject: RE: Changes to CCIE Lab and Written Exam Question Format and
> > Scoring
> >
> > I would discount it as one department not keeping up with the others.
> > :)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> > Tony
> > Schaffran (GS)
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 9:31 AM
> > To: 'hanan'; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > Subject: RE: Changes to CCIE Lab and Written Exam Question Format and
> > Scoring
> >
> > Since I do not see this on the official Cisco CCIE news web site,
> >
> > http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/ccie/announcements/index.html
> >
> > I have to discount it as rumor.
> >
> >
> > Tony Schaffran
> > Sr. Network Consultant
> > CCIE #11071
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> > hanan
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 12:04 AM
> > To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > Subject: Changes to CCIE Lab and Written Exam Question Format and
> > Scoring
> >
> > Changes to CCIE Lab and Written Exam Question Format and Scoring
> >
> > Effective February 1, 2009, Cisco will introduce a new type of question
> > format to CCIE Routing and Switching lab exams. In addition to the live
> > configuration scenarios, candidates will be asked a series of four or
> > five
> > open-ended questions, drawn from a pool of questions based on the
> > material
> > covered on the lab blueprint. No new topics are being added. The exams
> > are
> > not been increased in difficulty and the well-prepared candidate should
> > have
> > no trouble answering the questions. The length of the exam will remain
> > eight
> > hours. Candidates will need to achieve a passing score on both the
> > open-ended questions and the lab portion in order to pass the lab and
> > become
> > certified. Other CCIE tracks will change over the next year, with exact
> > dates announced in advance.
> >
> >
> > Effective February 17th, 2009, candidates will also see two other
> > changes in
> > CCIE written exams. First, candidates will now be required to answer
> > each
> > question before moving on to the next question; candidates will no
> > longer be
> > allowed to skip a question and come back to it at a later time. Second,
> > there will be an update to the score report. The overall exam score and
> > the
> > exam passing score will now be reported as a scaled score, on a scale
> > from
> > 300-1000. This change will not affect the difficulty of the current set
> > of
> > exams and will assure CCIE written exams will be consistent with Cisco's
> > other career certification exams.
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