[c-nsp] Current CCNA tests

[Garry]

Nicholas Weaver wrote:
> I just passed mine with a pretty decent score.
> 
> I just focused on the basics and used a lot of the NetSim to practice
> what I can't do in production at work.  I felt it was fair exam.  Of
> course if I failed I might have thought differently.

I didn't fail, due to the knowledge and experience I had, but for 
somebody who has a slight problem here and there, "unfair" questions can 
make a difference between passing and failing ...

Here's examples from a 640-811 test I found:

"What is the range of binary values for the first octet in Class B 
addresses?" - sorry, as Gert wrote, let's move on to the 21st Century ...

or: "Determine how many usable sub networks and usable host addresses 
per subnet are in 213.105.72.0 when subnetted with a /28 mask" - 
luckily, the available answers mask out everything with the 
host-portion, as the only answer with "14 hosts" also has "14 networks". 
Which, as it is common nowadays on every Cisco-config I did, is wrong, 
as I could and would configure 16 networks ...

This is what I'm ranting about - the tests seem to be made for people 
with NO hands-on experience, as they use information from the study 
guides (which again are outdated or wrong). Heck, can't somebody from 
Cisco weed out this junk??

-garry