Yes, If the COLT tests were tires, I'm afraid they would be Firestone
Wilderness series.......complete with the deflating effect
(Sorry, couldn't help it).
Lance
>From: "Ejay Hire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: COLT tests
>Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 16:46:10 CDT
>
>Thank God its not just me. I took 2 of the Colts as a pre-assesment for
>taking BCSN, and thought I had no chance of ever passing the real thing and
>should learn to change tires instead!! I feel a lot better knowing that
>they really are as awful as I thought they were.
>
>Whew!
>-Ejay
>
>
>----Original Message Follows----
>From: "Lance Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "Lance Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: COLT tests
>Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 06:27:34 PDT
>
>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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