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seem to be made for people with NO hands-on experience, as they use information from the study guides (which again are outdated or wrong).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 _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
