Funny all I did was post the question, without comment and look at the
direction we went.
As Priscilla points out, writing good questions is not simple I would agree,
writing accurate labs is even harder. Nothing worse than being told to turn
a knob and the knob is just not there when you are trying to learn.
Is there some formula followed for writing questions, seem to me I would:
1. Decided what point I was trying to bring out.
2. Word the question accurately.
3. Write the correct answer.
4. Explain why it is the answer.
5. Write incorrect answers.
Some situational wrong, some just silly.
6. Explain why they are wrong; especially in which situation the situational
wrong answer would be write.
Something like that.
Seems that the author was trying to be too tricky that they tricked
themselves out of a correct answer on this one. Couldn't we just say that
was a bad one? Nobody was attacking the author. Ask yourself would you feel
comfortable with that one, or would you like to see it corrected. It was
from the CCNA challenge not the CCIE. Neophytes should have information
clearly presented, it is very frustrating when you are trying to learn
something new and ambiguous information is presented. I would wait till
someone has achieved CCIE written level until I tried to talk the out of
what they know with trick questions.
Donald
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard C. Berkowitz"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: thoughts on this one from cert zone [7:14394]
> >Sounds like something from the CID test. ;-)
> >
> >Seriously, remember that you are picking the BEST answer. All answers but
B
> >are clearly made up. Remember that the author has to come up with 4 or 5
> >feasible wrong answers. This is the hardest part of writing an exam. As
an
> >exam-taker, you can sometimes see this process at work and easily
recognize
> >which answers are the made-up wrong ones, as we can with this example.
>
> I didn't write it...I think I know who did, but I'm not certain -- I
> don't pick the challenge questions. If it's the author I think, he's
> very well qualified but not a regular on this list.
>
> As Priscilla points out, writing good questions is not simple. The
> CertZone questions have a slightly different slant than the CCIE
> written exam, as many people have pointed out that they sometimes
> seem harder than the actual exam. Our questions are meant to be part
> of an overall CCIE preparation experience, not just for the written
> but for the lab as well, and to be used along with the practice
> scenarios and the white papers. In my experience, the hardest part
> of writing good CertZone questions is writing the explanation, which
> is meant to teach. The actual CCIE written questions don't have the
> requirement to coordinate with an explanation.
>
> >
> >As far as B being absolutely right, I'm thinking aloud here.... STP is
> >definitely dynamic. It helps a switch or bridge dynamically work around
> >loops in a network topology by creating a spanning tree. Perhaps that's
> >what they meant by "best path." Also, path selection is based on cost,
> >which is based on the bandwidth of a link, isn't it?
> >
> >Priscilla
> >
> >At 03:00 PM 7/31/01, Donald B Johnson jr wrote:
> >>Question
> >>Spanning Tree protocol was designed to:
> >>
> >>a) Simulate a layer 3 (link-state) routing protocol, efficiently
forwarding
> >>packets between layer two devices.
> >>
> >>b) Dynamically determine best path selection for layer 2 devices.
> >>
> >>c) Provide capability for SNA gateways to use duplicate MAC addresses,
> >>enabling network redundancy.
> >>
> >>d) Trunk multiple pathways effectively increasing inter-segment
bandwidth
> by
> >>multiples of the trunk paths.
> >>
> >>e) Provide load balancing between redundant network connections.
> >>
> >>Answer
> >>b) Dynamically determine best path selection for layer 2 devices.
> >________________________
> >
> >Priscilla Oppenheimer
> >http://www.priscilla.com
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