Just tried the CCDA one also. Obviously written by someone who doesn't
really "get it." Sigh.
Priscilla
At 06:27 AM 10/17/00, Lance Hubbard wrote:
>I think I have to agree.
>
>I took the CCDA COLT test yesterday, and to my dismay, despite using the
>book for occational referance I missed 12 out of 52. The questions I
>missed were many of the questions I looked up in the book (DCN Cisco
>Press). The test contradicts the book often, and several times questions
>have multiple correct answers, not in which there is a "best answer" but
>there are literaly several 100% correct answers for each question, and you
>are allowed to pick just one. It did open my eyes to some problem areas
>for me, but this is not a route I would go for legitimate readiness evaluation.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Lance
>
>
>>From: "michael champion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Reply-To: "michael champion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Re: COLT tests
>>Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 07:43:56 -0500
>>
>>COLT testsMy opinion of them is that they only confuse the issue. I
>>counted over 15 questions on the CIT-Pre exam that either had no correct
>>answers listed or had wrong answers; I even took the test OPEN-BOOK to
>>try to get through it. There is a very good reason that these questions
>>are not on the real exam (badly-worded questions, no correct choices,
>>nebulous questions, badly-worded answers, questions so detailed and
>>obscure that they require a Cisco white paper or field notice to answer,
>>etc.), and no one has made any attempt to improve them. What is amazing
>>about some of them is that they are direct mis-quotes from some of the
>>Cisco-Press books, and some were paraphrased incorrectly and
>>unintentionally changed the meaning. It is my belief that these questions
>>were not written by Cisco but rather some hired third-party who didn't
>>understand the material they were asking about (let's hope that this is
>>the case, or else they are a real embarrassment to Cisco!). I had to
>>inform Cisco that the CIT-8/28 exam wasn't even showing the gifs (they
>>have since fixed that at least). Don't use this resourse to make a
>>decision on whether you are ready for the real exam, just use it as a
>>reference to make sure that you have covered the material. The real exam
>>has a few nebulous questions, but not to the extent that the assessment
>>exams do.
>>
>>Regards,
>>MLC
>> "Lonnie Paschall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> 8shead$gfk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:8shead$gfk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> They are practice beta exams that are avaialable to cco login users.
>> No charge, excellent rescource!
>> "Ricardo Ciganda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> C3CBB71D56E4D3119C9C00902727B15C1A21B9@bmnt01">news:C3CBB71D56E4D3119C9C00902727B15C1A21B9@bmnt01...
>> Hi all!
>>
>> I would like to know what is the finality of the COLT tests. May I
>> have to paid for this or is only a simulation of a test?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Ricardo Ciganda
>> Dpto. de Sistemas
>> Bytemaster Servicios Informaticos S.A.
>
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