RE: OEQ Waiver program! No MORE OEQ for Cisco 360 students.

Lemme see, 4 sometimes subjective questions (depending on the proctor's
disposition that day or technical religious beliefs) that can trash your score
even if you get 100% on TS and Config. That is not a small part. Now if they
made it where you could skip it and still pass with 100s or even 90s in the
other sections, then I would agree with you.

Recently they had a very nice episode of Mythbusters where they made crap
shiny -- at the end, yes it is shiney but it is still crap and it stinks. I
think if the 360 had other merits going for it other than a free retake and
skipping OEQs we would not be seeing this amount of discontent.

Travis

> From: tomsdad07_at_gmail.com
> To: markom_at_ipexpert.com; brad_at_ccbootcamp.com
> CC: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: OEQ Waiver program! No MORE OEQ for Cisco 360 students.
> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35:39 -0700
>
> Wow, a lot of crying going on from non-Cisco 360 vendors. Give it a break.
> We all know this is your ONLY response to this new program from Cisco. It's
> a great idea and a good way for Cisco to help promote their training
> programs.
>
> Cisco controls the 360 training, so why not validate the core knowledge
> skills as part of the process. It makes sense to me. Especially since core
> knowledge is such a small part of the exam anyhow. You still need to pass
> the TS and Config sections.
>
> "During a Cisco 360 Learning Program workshop, students complete a series
of
> performance assessments that demonstrate their understanding of the CCIE
> material and serve the same purpose as the Core Knowledge section of the
> exam. Therefore, Cisco 360 Learning Program students who use the waiver
> will not be required to type out answers to the Core Knowledge questions
and
> will be allowed to move immediately to the next section of the lab exam."
>
> If you want to do Cisco 360 and decline the waiver, I see no reason why you
> couldn't do that. So stop your complaining. This is a great option for
> people to pick from. If you don't like it, then don't pick it as an option.
> Very easy.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Marko Milivojevic
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 10:17 PM
> To: Brad Ellis
> Cc: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: OEQ Waiver program! No MORE OEQ for Cisco 360 students.
>
> > (This is my baby I presented to Cisco about 6 months ago!!!)
> >
> > GO 360!
>
>
> Oh, I'm just curious. If you get two courses, do you get to skip
> Troubleshooting, too? I mean, candidates "demonstrate troublsehooting
> skills" too during bootcamps, don't they? Three courses for the entire
> exam?
>
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