For those who answer the survey as a 'newbie' - do you use the same
candidate ID each time you book a test, or do you pretend to be a different
person each time?
How many exams/certs do you have under that candidate ID? ;-)
I'm with Ole. I've never pretended to be a newbie, and the only exam I've
failed was the CCDE written beta (and a lot of good it would have done me
to pass it anyway - not). I can't see any reason why Cisco would want to
change the difficulty based on experience, and if they did, you could just
as easily argue that they might want to make it *harder* for newbies so
they don't have too many 'paper' cert holders.
JMcL
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"Ole
Drews
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Please
respond
to
"Ole
Drews
Jensen"
You could ask yourself: "WHY???" - Why would they make the test harder or
easier depending on what you answer them. I would think that they are
looking to certify people that meets a certain level, and not lower that
level if you're a beginner.
That would be the same as telling a retarded guy cleaning the public
restrooms downtown that he wouldn't need to pass as many tests as normal to
become a brain surgeon, and to tell the doctors son that he needs a 100% to
pass.
They are simply gathering information about the people around the world who
are taking their exams.
It's funny with rumours like these - it takes 1 second to start them, but
years to stop them.
It almost reminds me of an e-mail I received about a dangerous fax-virus
that would destroy my fax if called by an infected fax.
If it helps, I can let you know that I have always answered the survey
correctly, and I have not failed a Cisco test yet.
Have a great day.
Ole
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kaminski, Shawn G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 2:19 PM
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Subject: RE: advice on CCNP exams [7:26850]
I must share your superstition. I always filled out the survey as if I was
doing a career change and didn't know squat about networking even though
I've got numerous certs and have hands-on experience. I've heard that the
grading of an exam is somewhat based on your answers to this survey. So, I
don't think that the questions would be more difficult, just possibly the
grading. Whether it's true or why they would do this, I don't know. It's
just an interesting bit of information I heard about and decided that it's
better to be safe than sorry!
Shawn
-----Original Message-----
From: VoIP Guy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 2:21 PM
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Subject: Re: advice on CCNP exams [7:26850]
Just did one to see and they are just as easy as always. Nothing changed
yet.
Off topic:
Is it just me and my superstitions, or does any one else feel that the
survey before each test on how many certs you have, experience you have,
etc., changes the difficulty on the test based on how well you say you know
the stuff, number of yearsd in, etc,.? Also, what would happen if you said
no the the NDA before the test? Does it boot you off and send you home
$125
poorer?
""Brian"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> For all those people who are starting CCNP, I have some advice for
> you.
Dont
> be discouraged by all the people telling you they got a 990 on every
> exam. That was then, and this is now. I new price of 125 (Nov 11th)
> for test indicates that things have changed very much. I say this
> because Cisco states the 125 is for the cost of changing the exams. I
> have just heard
from
> friends that took it and that alot of their friends are failing. I
> have failed CCNP Routing as well just recently.
>
> The number of CCNPs has increased this year, by 100% since the
> following year, I think that trend is coming to a screaching halt.
>
> How to study, it should be common sense, which i dont have much of :)
Print
> out the study guideline from Cisco, and know everything they mention
> forwards and backwards. Obviously OSPF, BGP. If you have any study
> guides, dont really put much stock in them there not worth 2c anymore.
> I suggest exam cram for a basic idea of what its about, and cisco
> press to look up
the
> things that are hard to understand. And maybe sybex if you want to
> read
the
> entire book :) I think some of the questions on Boson go overboard,
> but
that
> might be what you need. I guess it cant hurt to know too much. Boson
> is
now
> only good for learning what type of questions are on the exam, not THE
> actual questions on the exam anymore.
>
> Brian
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