 Terry Slattery who earned the world's first CCIE on August 3rd 1993, Number 1026 Routing and Switching, recertified earlier this month by passing the written (350-001).
In Terry's blog entry yesterday, he briefly gave credit to the work that Robert Williams and CertGuard have been doing to eradicate testing fraud. Terry suggests an easy solution to combat Cisco Braindumps: |
Increase the test database to over 1000 questions and don't repeat questions for candidates.
Perhaps this could be too simple a solution, however, Terry doesn't think so:
"Cisco already publishes a syllabus of topics, which would be the basis for subject areas. Create ten questions for each individual subject. Make sure that a candidate's test doesn't contain a repeat question until after ten attempts. A candidate would have to know the subject or memorize many more questions than with the current test database."
"With a large enough database, Cisco could publish the questions for public review and comment. This would have the byproduct of allowing comment on bad questions and improve question quality. It would even be useful to allow people to suggest questions, subject to review and acceptance by Cisco. Using this process, the question database could quickly be several thousand questions and more fully evaluate a candidate's subject knowledge."
What do YOU think of Terry's suggestion, is it too easy and simple?
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Robert Williams has a blog on Network World, too
Might want to check out Robert's most excellent blog here on Network World, too -- all about Certification Integrity.
His last post was: When should you be worried about losing your certifications?
Is 1000 questions enough?
We had a short discussion tonight at a Netcordia function around whether 1000 questions was enough. Jay Ennis, our VP of Engineering, says that the FAA Commercial Pilot exam database of 1000 questions is published. He says that he was able to learn a good percentage of those questions. So I asked him if he then knew the material better and after some discussion we decided that it did help him learn and understand the material.
So maybe the number is somewhat greater than 1000, but as the question database grows beyond 1000, the requirement to know the material grows. It will also force candidates to more carefully read the questions and answers if repeat questions seldom occur.
-Terry
Re: Is 1000 questions enough?
I was kinda wondering that myself. I see braindumps all the time that have nearly that many questions (somewhere in the range of 700-800) and have often heard of people memorizing them all just to take a single 35-70 question exam.
I myself am not much of an advocate for (just) increasing the number of questions in the exam pool; only because I've had so many discussions on the pro's and con's of doing so. But as you suggested, incorporating an increased pool of questions along with other methods of deterrance may be a viable solution to reducing braindump usage.
Here are a couple of blogs I wrote a while back on the subject:
A solution to the braindump problem - Part I
A Solution to the Braindump Problem - Part II
Best Regards,
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