"Donald B Johnson jr" wrote,
>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.
Donald, we always need paid authors for questions. If you'd like to
try your hand at it, you might want to get in touch with
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm really not trying to be
smart-mouthed when I say it's harder than it looks, especially under
time pressure.
>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.
Again, I don't pick the questions for the challenge, so I don't know
who wrote that or if it was assigned to the wrong category. Yes,
questions always can be polished. Not to defend poor wording, but
neophytes should be aware that they will be presented with poorly
worded questions on the real tests. Cisco, indeed, will ask questions
looking for answers that are just plain technically wrong, but they
remain the Cisco Way.
>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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