[c-nsp] Current CCNA tests

[Daniel Hooper]

Unfortunately some of us are still supporting kit that was released in
the dark ages.

This whole thread reminds of a Microsoft tech I asked to make some
changes on an windows 2000 system, he browned his trousers and cried
that he was only capable of doing the work on a 2003 system because
that's all his training had covered, this was only 12 months after 2003
had been released.

The point is at least cisco people get the opportunity to learn the
older systems as well as the new, which is far more useful then being in
the same boat as said msce tech above :)

-Dan
 
-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Garry
Sent: Thursday, 10 January 2008 1:58 PM
To: Nicholas Weaver; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net >> cisco-nsp
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Current CCNA tests

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guides (which again are outdated or wrong).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
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