Hi All, Doing some consultancy work for a customer and got chatting about my CCIE studies and talked about GNS3.
To cut a long story short, The client commissioned me to implement GNS3 and design a GNS3 technical test. They are currently recruiting for a 2nd line support engineer and really wanted a tool that HR can administrate to help gauge the technical competency of their candidates and based on their result, they would then decide if the candidate is to be moved up to the next stage of the interview process. I've designed this 'workbook style lab' to be a walk in the park for any competent CCNP engineer and even very doable for some of the rusty CCNP engineers and maybe a highly proficient CCNA guy - Basically it should catch out the brain dumpers and blaggers and help make the HR process more efficient. It the first time I've done something like this and would like to know what you all think, particularly the guys who have heaps of experience in writing workbooks etc. I try to design it so that each tasks is some what independent e.g. if they cant do task 3 it does not mean they can no longer do task 4, 5, 6 etc As it is my first time, I'm also very happy to here some criticism etc (no ego, always happy to learn from mistakes!) Is it too difficult for the audience being targeted? Is it too easy? Is it doable but not within 45 minutes? Any feedback would be appreciated. I made the pass mark 7 out of 11 (there a bonus task which if successfully completed can override the pass mark - each 'exam' is assessed individually with a script I've written that checks for the result of show commands and looks for certain configuration that can only be done in one way etc if they can't be bothered to look at the configuration of each device themselves - Though it something I've said I'm happy to do). I may even look to assign a weight against each task and score that way as some tasks are very easy than others... The test can be viewed here: http://myitgeekblog.wordpress.com/ The .NET files and pre-config can also be downloaded from there. It's designed it to be a 30 - 45 minute test max. Look forward to your comments, Cheers Combatant101 http://myitgeekblog.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com Are you a CCNP or CCIE and looking for a job? Check out www.PlatinumPlacement.com
