Interesting topic, I would be interested how they grade. Or different
question: "Is there only a single best way how to fulfill a task?" If
no....hmm...the grading script just has to know the different
possibilities....

Roger

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An: OSL CCIE Routing and Switching Lab Exam
Betreff: Re: [OSL | CCIE_RS] Question about CCIE Lab Grading Method

This is very scary. We are putting years of effort to learn these
technologies to be at the mercy of a software package.

Suresh



On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Tony Hidalgo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I have a question regarding how the actual CCIE Lab
> exam is evaluated.
>
> I understand that it uses an aplication or software
> that looks for the "expected" outcome or solution and
> when is not clear, a person checks the answer and
> determines if it's right or wrong.
>
> I took the two versions of the Cisco Assesment Labs of
> R&S and was surprised with the results.
>
> This because even when the final solution was what
> they asked for, the questions were incorrect according
> to their "AutoVerify" grading engine.
>
> I have two examples:
>
> 1-On BGP, I had 3 routers and one of them had to be a
> route-reflector, the other two its clients. I set a
> peer group, configured it correctly and added the two
> other routers under it. The questions did not prohibit
> the use of peer groups but still, the question was
> marked incorrect. When I checked their answer, they
> just did not use a peer group but the rest of the
> config and the expected outcome was identical.
>
> 2-On IPV6, they asked to set a RIP process called
> RIPv6. I configured a process called "RIPV6" (note
> that the "v" on my process was Upper Case), and the
> question was marked incorrect just because of that.
> The results that I got were exactly what they asked
> for.
>
> So, I am kind of worried that the real CCIE LAB exam
> uses the same grading method or something similar that
> even checks for Upper/Lower case and marks a question
> wrong if there is the minimum difference.
>
> Has anybody taken the Cisco CCIE Lab Assesments tests?
> What do you guys think about it? Is it the real deal?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>

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