Test taking skills and real-world skills sometimes overlap and are
related but not always. I've met scores of people who are excellent at
taking and passing tests of any kind, but have spent most of their lives
in a classroom and have little high-pressure real-world experience.
In that light, I tend to regard someone who has passed a computer-based
test as someone who has the basics of a subject memorized, which is
often the first step in an apprenticeship. However, there are many
people who have lots of hands-on experience who can't ace a CCNP/CCDP
test because they aren't good at tests or haven't studied the test
material (very little of which you really need to have memorized in the
real-world to do your job). I passed all those CCNP and CCDP tests a
couple of years ago and remain somewhat disgusted about how much useless
nonsense I had to memorize. On a daily basis I would say I use less than
10% of the test material in my job as a network engineer.
Jonathan
Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote:
>
> Yes, but in the real world, I like Duck's attitude. Basically he's saying
> that he doesn't need to memorize which switch has IOS. He is not
> intimidated by any switch because they all basically do the same thing, and
> he has learned enough configuration commands in both command sets to feel
> comfortable. I could see hiring such a person even if he did flunk the
> test! Just a thought....
>
> Priscilla
>
> At 12:25 PM 9/13/00, Neil Schneider wrote:
> >Possibly your "who cares!" attitute and your 347 score are related? Just a
> >thought.
> >
> >
> >Neil
> >
> >
> >""Donald B Johnson Jr"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >030001c01db7$51db2170$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:030001c01db7$51db2170$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > who cares!!! when you console, or telnet, or tenlet in you will find out
> > > which command set you are using.
> > > If you know what a switch can do you should be allright.
> > > I just took the switching test and scored a 347 after six weeks of study
> >'m
> > > not too depressed but I got to get back to reading.
> > > Duck
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 9:34 PM
> > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > > Subject: Re: cisco switches
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > In a message dated 9/12/00 10:49:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > << hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > Do all cisco switches run IOS , I know 1900 do , but what about
> > > > > the others?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Jason
>
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>
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