May 06

We’ve got you covered! INE OEQ $99 Credit!

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As a follow up to today’s Cisco announcement, removing the Core Knowledge section from both CCIE Routing & Switching and CCIE Voice exams, INE is offering all our  customers a $99 credit that can be applied to any purchase over $500. Since the Core Knowledge section of the CCIE Exam was announced, we worked hard to deliver you a simulation that would give you the confidence to pass.  We would like to thank all those who used the Core Knowledge Simulator and we were thrilled to hear how it helped you pass.  With the Core Knowledge section being removed from the exam, we would like to use this time to give back to you.  Please, take this $99 credit as our way to say thank-you, and to celebrate this portion of the exam getting removed.  To redeem this credit, simply use promo code INE-OEQ . Remember, INE’s got you covered.  Act now, this offer expires soon.

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May 06

Bye-Bye Core Knowledge Section!

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News that everyone has been expecting eagerly: Effective May 10th Cisco is taking the core knowledge section off the CCIE R&S and Voice lab exams! Over a year of existence, this part of the exam received most controversy of all. There has been a lot of things said about how flawed the idea of core knowledge testing was. Firstly, a test of four questions could never properly assess anyone’s knowledge. Secondly, error margin was unacceptable high due to vaguely presented questions and unclear grading procedure. Lastly, some recent promo actions that Cisco ran created a lot of controversy in the CCIE community. However, good or bad, it’s all gone now, and this fact should be a huge relief for many CCIE candidates. The time that has been previosly allocated to OEQs is now reallocated to the Configuration section, so you now have extra 30 minutes of configuration time.

What next? Hopefully, Cisco has a plan to deal with those who failed Core Knowledge before that change, but passed the Configuration section. Also, we sincerely hope Cisco would introduce more “fine-grained” procedures to thwart brain-dumpers and preserve the exam integrity. Plus, we still have to see Troubleshooting added to SP and Security tracks and OEQ eliminated there as well. We shall see!

UPDATE
The official information could be found at the CCIE page: http://www.cisco.com/ccie

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Nov 24

CCIE Security Core Knowledge Questions – Part 3

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Test your core knowledge skills for the Security CCIE track...
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Jul 07

The Reason Behind the Core Knowledge Section?

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CCIE Journey recently attended Networkers in SF and has a nice recap of the event, particularly from a CCIE candidate’s perspective.  Definitely surf on over and give it a read.

There was a lot of speculation that the recent introduction of the Core Knowledge section to the CCIE lab was to curb cheating via leaked or brain-dumped labs.  A lot of that speculation centered around the Beijing, China lab location.  CCIE Journey’s post contains a nugget that may give validation to some of that speculation:

Monday was my eight hour lab day with a lab written by a proctor just for Cisco Live. We learned a lot in that class. We learned that the pass rate of the Beijing lab was running at 90% before they implemented the open-ended questions.

CCIE Journey shares my concern that we’re all now paying the price for possible rampant cheating at a specific location.  There is a possible bright side to this though:

He [the proctor] also hinted that the open-ended questions were a quick band aid for stopping the brain dumps and might come off in the near future. Maybe the troubleshooting section of the 4.0 lab will be enough?

I think that this makes sense.  Troubleshooting is a better filter than a four question quiz.  I tend to doubt that the Core Knowledge section will go away though.  The Core Knowledge questions are only ever used one time.  This means that they are essentially “un-dumpable”.  Of course, it also means that the questions may have the tendency to become more and more difficult as the obvious questions are used and discarded.

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