Hi All, I was actually trying to avoid talking about the Open Ended
question, because I don't know what the NDA even allows me to discuss or not
discuss about them and even though I just had them I still don't know much
about how they are used in the testing process. I will say that personally
the questions were not difficult, but I'm sure that there's is a very huge
pool of them so in my opinion there's no telling what a person may get. I
still don't even know how they're graded or how that grade, if it exists,
affects your overall lab results. Maybe they're being vague about things on
purpose...I don't know. They are, just as their name implies, open-ended.
No multiple choice...no interviews...just questions that you read and
provide a typed response to. I agree with Cisco's statement, that CCIE
candidates *should *be able to answer them without much difficulty, but what
if someone just so happens to get the handful of questions that they hadn't
prepared for as much as they should have even though they may have spent a
year or more studying / testing / labbing? I'm sure something needs to be
done if there are integrity problems with the lab material, but I just don't
know that these open ended questions is the solution they're looking for.
Jason
