>Why shouldn't they mix them up?
>Are you expecting that, in your job, you will be able to concentrate solely
>on one project until it is finished, and then move onto the next, with no
>intervening interruptions from people asking you basic technical questions?
>Half your luck if you can. Most people I know work on several projects at
>a time, with different requirements, technical aspects, and politics for
>each. And the projects usually have far more meaningless acronyms or names
>than the scenarios in the CCDA exam - by the time you have COL, COS and
>QOL, what chance have you got? :-)
>
>JMcL
There's an interesting discussion here. In the Real World, as much
as it does or doesn't match testing, there's a difference in time
scales between working on multiple projects and having what fighter
pilots call "situational awareness." If the pilot isn't CONSTANTLY
aware of threats, even while in a dogfight, he can be dead very
quickly.
So on a real test, I can see grouping case study questions because in
the real world, you'd at least have the case study paperwork handy.
That being said, it's not quite the way I design sample exams for
CertZone. At the present time, the test engine doesn't randomize
order or adapt. There may be multiple versions of the same test, but
the questions are manually selected. Since the questions are drawn
both from the current white paper and the much larger question pool,
the author doesn't do the final selection.
Nevertheless, I make a point of not writing several questions in a
row that deal with very closely related material. The practice test
has two purposes: simulating the exam experience, but also
reinforcing the reader's understanding. The latter comes from having
explanations of each question for immediate feedback. My feeling is
that if the reader essentially got the same explanation for several
consecutive questions, the lesson would start to become boring.
No educational psychological studies to back this, just informed intuition.
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>Hi group,
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>Passed CCDA today. 72 question, 755 to pass, scored
>854. The exam itself is not too hard, but the way
>Cisco presents the scenario questions is very
>annoying.
>
>4 scenarios are scattered among the 72 questions.
>What I mean is you got 1 question on case 1, the next
>question on case 4, then some non-scenario questions.
>Then a case question appears again in the middle/end
>of the exam.
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>I guess it's because of the random selections of the
>question pool. But I feel I have been tested more on
>my memory than my skill of design. I have to refresh
>my memory of each senario once in a while during the
>exam.
>I hope Cisco will make some change in the future:
>Randomize each scenarios, but not mix the questions
>among all other questions in the exam.
>
>Adam
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