I thank Priscilla for her candor on this topic. I for
one was pretty livid with the exam, and I wrote over
seven pages of comments to the Cisco team both through
the exam comments feature and off-line. Specifically I
was disappointed that the questions were poorly
crafted, afforded few solid answers, and many were
flat-out wrong.
It is further disappointing that Cisco has failed to
take advantage of this forum and others like it to
improve the quality of their product from a technical
perspective, much like one would expect a better level
set with enterprise and service provider customers to
develop the program further.
--- Priscilla Oppenheimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe they laid off the people working on it. Just
> kidding. Seriously, the
> Cisco training department has always worked at about
> 1/100,000,000 the
> speed of Internet time.
>
> Analyzing the results of a beta test is
> time-consuming, though, and
> sometimes there are arguments on the meaning of the
> results. The test
> writers must go through and weed out questions that
> everyone got right,
> even the obvious newbies. (Newbies and experts are
> defined by the test
> results, so it's an iterative process.) They must
> eliminate questions that
> nobody got right. They must eliminate questions that
> the newbies got right
> but the experts got wrong. Then they have to rescore
> the beta results.
>
> If they eliminated too many questions, they have to
> add new ones. This must
> be done with care since the new questions won't go
> through the same beta
> test. Then, they must make sure the course matches
> the test.
>
> Still, I agree that it's egregious that it has taken
> 14 weeks.
>
> Priscilla
>
> At 02:22 PM 3/25/01, F.G.J. Ruiz-Alaniz wrote:
> >Anyone know who we can call at Cisco? Speaking to
> Prometric is a
> >waste of time because they blame Cisco (this from
> past experience with
> >them).
> >
> >Not to spread rumors, but I think this is related
> to them not having
> >published the updated CID 4.0 class yet. I can't
> find any mention of
> >it anywhere. Beta exams from other companies are
> not this bad, I've
> >never even had one from Novell, Microsoft, or
> CompTIA take more than 8
> >weeks for me to get my report in the mail.
> >
> >Well, I'll continue waiting...
> >
> >On 25 Mar 2001 09:56:29 -0500,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("GNOME") wrote:
> >
> > >14 weeks and still waiting!!!!!!!!!!!!
> > >
> > >
> > >"Tim Noonan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> message
> > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > >> Hi. Has anyone got the results from the CID
> beta test yet?
> > >> I have taken several beta test and this is the
> longest I have had to wait
> > >> for the results.
> > >> Thanks,
> > >> Tim
> > >> Ps. Please cc me with any reply becuase I don't
> have access to the mailing
> > >> list right now.
> > >>
>
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