Recent CID takers pls comment

2001-02-07 Thread Mongol Blizzard
Hi I read in a forum that the CID exam now is 200 questions in 120 mins !! I was told a month back that it was 100 questions. Pls clarify. (Hope those boring scenarios are not there.) regards _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer

Re: Recent CID takers pls comment

2001-02-07 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
Hi I read in a forum that the CID exam now is 200 questions in 120 mins !! I was told a month back that it was 100 questions. Pls clarify. (Hope those boring scenarios are not there.) regards Why are scenarios boring? Aren't those the principal things you will deal with as a real-world

Re: Recent CID takers pls comment

2001-02-07 Thread John Neiberger
I'm definitely with Howard on this one. I plan on taking the CID within a month and I would expect scenarios to be on the test. How else would you really test design skills? I'm more worried that the test is just a bad test overall. I don't think I've read a single good thing about any

Re: Recent CID takers pls comment

2001-02-07 Thread Craig Columbus
While scenarios can be interesting, don't expect any on CID 3.0. It's not a very well written test, but it's certainly passable if you know the material on the review guide. Craig At 08:24 AM 2/7/2001 -0800, you wrote: I'm definitely with Howard on this one. I plan on taking the CID within

Re: Recent CID takers pls comment

2001-02-07 Thread Robert Padjen
The DCN (CCDA) exam has scenarios akin to Microsoft's exams. The CID (CCDP) exam does not and will likely never have such a presentation. This is an interesting challenge as noted below as the test cannot fully address design. --- Craig Columbus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While scenarios can be

Re: Recent CID takers pls comment

2001-02-07 Thread sougata maitra
they were boring because the questions asked had little or "nitwit" relevance to what the companies wanted to do. in my opinion a ccda exam shd have had better and interesting scenarios. regards mongol --- "Howard C. Berkowitz" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I read in a forum that the CID exam

Re: Recent CID takers pls comment

2001-02-07 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
they were boring because the questions asked had little or "nitwit" relevance to what the companies wanted to do. in my opinion a ccda exam shd have had better and interesting scenarios. regards mongol That's a valid observation. Let me offer a bit of perspective on nitwit-ism in the real