most written tests are written by folks who love writing questions that folks will get confused over or how really obscure, the written tests shlould be interactibve and test your cisco knowledge rather than your maths experience,
>From: "dre" >Reply-To: "dre" >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: CCIE R&S Beta Experience [7:42761] >Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 19:56:53 -0400 > >I took the CCIE R&S Beta this afternoon, here's what I experienced: > >About 1/5 of the exam I thought should be on the CCNA instead (Make > sure you know ITM well for this part) >About 1/5 of the exam I only knew because of my 5 years+ IP/Ethernet > Cat5k/Cat6k/7x00 experience (especially know IP Multicast, OSPF, > BGP, STP, VLAN, UDLD, VACL/RACL, etc) >About 1/5 of the exam I thought were really math questions and not > Cisco questions (Know various QoS case scenarios from IP, FR, > ATM, etc) >About 1/5 of the exam I figured only a person who worked 5 years+ > doing IPX would know >About 1/5 of the exam I figured only a person who worked 5 years+ > doing SNA/DLSw+ would know > >Which means I probably got 2/5's of the test's answers wrong, putting >me ~60%. I hope the pass rate is near that number. > >When you go through the blueprint, do not skip over anything; it's >all on the exam. > >The insight that there are a lot of IP Multicast and Catalyst 6500 >questions was true in my experience as well. If you don't know >those down cold, you probably shouldn't bother taking the test. > >Cisco LAN Switching is not enough to get by, but Routing TCP/IP >Volume II is probably the best book you could read that covers a >lot of the material (lucky I read this the night before the exam). > >If you are lacking in any areas, reading isn't going to help too >too much since a lot of the questions are really exercises with >real world examples and interesting concepts that can only be applied >with hands-on exposure. Make sure you get that hands-on exposure >if you aren't working with it day-to-day. > >-dre most written _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=42764&t=42761 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
