CCIE verbal interview

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Cisco mulls adding verbal interview to CCIE exams | NetworkWorld.com Community

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JavonR

I read this on slashdot earlier today... pretty good idea if you ask me. I doubt they will be too harsh, it will just weed out the very obvious people

dtlokee

From the prespective of a person who already has the CCIE, anything they do to make it more difficult is good with me

a543047

A good idea. I'm not surprised that they are starting with China...

a543047

I'm also willing to bet that the purpose of the questions being anti-**** secondary as a PR move. Depending on what time of day you call TAC, you cannot understand them either. So the saying that the questions gauge how clearly the CCIE candidates can verbally describe technical issues seems to be a load of poo.

vivek2727

Effective February 1, 2009, Cisco will introduce a new type of question format to CCIE Routing and Switching lab exams. In addition to the live configuration scenarios, candidates will be asked a series of four or five open-ended questions, drawn from a pool of questions based on the material covered on the lab blueprint. No new topics are being added. The exams are not been increased in difficulty and the well-prepared candidate should have no trouble answering the questions. The length of the exam will remain eight hours. Candidates will need to achieve a passing score on both the open-ended questions and the lab portion in order to pass the lab and become certified. Other CCIE tracks will change over the next year, with exact dates announced in advance.

Effective February 17th, 2009, candidates will also see two other changes in CCIE written exams. First, candidates will now be required to answer each question before moving on to the next question; candidates will no longer be allowed to skip a question and come back to it at a later time. Second, there will be an update to the score report. The overall exam score and the exam passing score will now be reported as a scaled score, on a scale from 300-1000. This change will not affect the difficulty of the current set of exams and will assure CCIE written exams will be consistent with Cisco’s other career certification exams.

Paul Boz

Interesting changes for the CCIE... If you can pass the lab I would hope you can pass the verbal. That being said, it would emensely suck to pass the written and the lab and be shot down by some verbal questions.

EMcCaleb

Paul Boz wrote: »

Interesting changes for the CCIE... If you can pass the lab I would hope you can pass the verbal. That being said, it would immensely suck to pass the written and the lab and be shot down by some verbal questions.

Only cheaters will fail.

Ernest

dtlokee

I think it will also affect people who attempt to brute force the lab by memorizing lab workbook tasks to pass the lab.

Ahriakin

vivek2727 wrote: »

...The exams are not been increased in difficulty...

Okay petty I know, but since one of the aims of having the interview in English is to test communication skills you'd think whoever wrote the announcement would have checked their grammar

Overall I think it will be a good thing so long as they don't cut corners and use interviewers who are not CCIEs themselves, working from an answer sheet it will be much harder for them to understand if a convoluted but correct reply (or one using an alternate solution) should pass or not.