I think I have to agree.
I took the CCDA COLT test yesterday, and to my dismay, despite using the
book for occational referance I missed 12 out of 52. The questions I missed
were many of the questions I looked up in the book (DCN Cisco Press). The
test contradicts the book often, and several times questions have multiple
correct answers, not in which there is a "best answer" but there are
literaly several 100% correct answers for each question, and you are allowed
to pick just one. It did open my eyes to some problem areas for me, but
this is not a route I would go for legitimate readiness evaluation.
Cheers,
Lance
>From: "michael champion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "michael champion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: COLT tests
>Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 07:43:56 -0500
>
>COLT testsMy opinion of them is that they only confuse the issue. I counted
>over 15 questions on the CIT-Pre exam that either had no correct answers
>listed or had wrong answers; I even took the test OPEN-BOOK to try to get
>through it. There is a very good reason that these questions are not on the
>real exam (badly-worded questions, no correct choices, nebulous questions,
>badly-worded answers, questions so detailed and obscure that they require a
>Cisco white paper or field notice to answer, etc.), and no one has made any
>attempt to improve them. What is amazing about some of them is that they
>are direct mis-quotes from some of the Cisco-Press books, and some were
>paraphrased incorrectly and unintentionally changed the meaning. It is my
>belief that these questions were not written by Cisco but rather some hired
>third-party who didn't understand the material they were asking about
>(let's hope that this is the case, or else they are a real embarrassment to
>Cisco!). I had to inform Cisco that the CIT-8/28 exam wasn't even showing
>the gifs (they have since fixed that at least). Don't use this resourse to
>make a decision on whether you are ready for the real exam, just use it as
>a reference to make sure that you have covered the material. The real exam
>has a few nebulous questions, but not to the extent that the assessment
>exams do.
>
>Regards,
>MLC
> "Lonnie Paschall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>8shead$gfk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:8shead$gfk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> They are practice beta exams that are avaialable to cco login users. No
>charge, excellent rescource!
> "Ricardo Ciganda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>C3CBB71D56E4D3119C9C00902727B15C1A21B9@bmnt01">news:C3CBB71D56E4D3119C9C00902727B15C1A21B9@bmnt01...
> Hi all!
>
> I would like to know what is the finality of the COLT tests. May I
>have to paid for this or is only a simulation of a test?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Ricardo Ciganda
> Dpto. de Sistemas
> Bytemaster Servicios Informaticos S.A.
>
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