""DAve Diaz"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > 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
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