Hi Priscilla, Questions like "which answer doesnt not belong " means what??? Is Cisco implying that the double negative means positive as we were taught years ago in algebra class or it should be ignored and taken for one negative.
Am currently taking my CSS1 track, I wrote Cisco Secure VPN yesterday which happens to be the third exam in the series. I came accross a lot questions which made no sense at all. Looking at the question, it was not a question at all. it was not asking any particular thing, it had no meaning, no bearing, no sense in it, they are just like saying blablablablablablablabla. The more I read them the more I get confused and lost at what Cisco was tring to ask. Have you come accross questions that made you think 'What must be in the mind of the examiner when he was asking this question, which aspect of Network or Security implementation was he thinking of? What I normally do is to completely ignore the questions and eliminate the odd options in the answer, at the end of the day in many questions like these, I come out with NOT THE BEST ANSWER as they use to tell one, but rather a choice that made a different SENSE and MEANING than the other three or four. I sometimes ask whether the current Cisco questions were not originally written in English but were translated from another language and as such the transators did not do a good job or is it a deliberate action on the part of Cisco? If it were the former it is long time they take a closer look at it and if it is the later, what must have informed their actions? Regards. Godswill Oletu CCNP, CCDP. ----- Original Message ----- From: Priscilla Oppenheimer To: Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 4:57 PM Subject: Re: Passing CID [7:33784] > At 07:19 PM 1/30/02, brian hall wrote: > >Passing this test #640-025 was the hardest yet. It took a couple of times. > >Now its on to CCIE and then the lab were the truth comes out. > >Some tell me that passing this brings you close to being prepared to take > >the CCIE written. I'll find out soon enough. > > > >To any one who cares using boson CCDP #1 & #3 helped . > > > >I started using the latest version of the CID exam prep from cisco press but > > Exam prep guides are written with the goal of summarizing what you need to > know. They are not the course materials, but go beyond in some ways, and > may also skip some basic stuff. They can be great for review, but don't > work for everyone as the primary source. > > >found the earlier version of the book written by birkner a better source. > > This wasn't an earlier version of the same book. It's a different book. > This was the course materials ported to book format. The author should be > Cisco (course developers) although in this case Birkner didn't exactly > follow the script and added his own material and left some out. > > In general, Cisco Press develops at least two types of books: > > Certification guides: not written by Cisco, but still often very helpful > Course book: training written by Cisco, ported to book format by an editor > paid by Cisco Press, usually an excellent resource as the tests are taken > from the course. > > A question came up about the different types of Cisco Press books in a > different thread, so I responded here. (My other response never made it?) > > Anyway, congratulations on passing CID! It's a hard test. Good luck with > CCIE. > > Priscilla > > > >The answers are very close to each other and need to be read carefully, they > >can be tricky. Watch out for the " which answer doesnt not belong " > >questions those can be the most difficult. > > > >Good luck, > ________________________ > > Priscilla Oppenheimer > http://www.priscilla.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=33797&t=33784 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]