CCNP - CCNP recert exam

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CCNP recert exam

rfox1

2003-06-07, 10:04 pm

Don't think that because you have a CCNP and 3 yrs experience that the exam will be a breeze. I took the exam the other day and barely passed. In the past 5 yrs I have taken and passed exams for my MCSE, CNE, about 15 Cisco exams including CCIE written, and I have a ton of certs and experience, and this was by far the worst organized exam I have ever taken. The exam is still based on equipment, technology, and design guidelines from 4-5 yrs ago. There are simulator questions that did not work, whereas I entered the configs, and when I did a show run the output is not what I entered. Now I know that happens on routers when lets say that the mask was entered incorrectly, but that was not the case here. There were extremely vague questions, for example it would ask what a specific command of a switch is, would show the proper format for a cat 3500xl AND CatIOS for a 5000, and there would only be one correct answer.

I would say there were about 15-20 questions that were not accurate, or too vague to answer correctly. There was even a question about W95. I made ALOT of comments, hopefully someone will read them.

It would be almost impossible for anyone to get a perfect score, and I would find it very hard to believe that an engineer reviewed any of these questions before the exam was released.

Cisco blew it here.

Yankee

2003-06-08, 5:48 am

A co-worker took the re-cert exam about 6 weeks ago and had none of these negative comments when he came back. He spent a week preping for the exam and got an 860 something as a score.

I have to take mine this summer and will have my own opinion at that time.

Yankee

traceroute

2003-06-11, 10:24 am

What are you guys using for exam prep. Any good materials for this one or just recapping of the recent CCNP track studies ?

Yankee

2003-06-12, 3:12 am

my CCIE written exam expired in Jan (18 months with no lab attemts) so I am sort of studying for it and will take the CCNP recert exam based on that prep... or at least that is my current plan.

Yankee

traceroute

2003-06-12, 9:55 am

Thanks Yankee, thats a good angle and perspective for studying. I have some CCXX productions materials for CCNPR but will snag a good CCIE written book to complement. Thanks for the reply.....

limsam

2003-06-17, 3:46 am

I would say there were about 15-20 questions that were not accurate, or too vague to answer correctly

I found most of the certification exams I sat for contained many vague exams. The vendors do not have a 'will' to make an exam really professionals.

Yankee

2003-06-17, 3:56 am

My experience is that the better I know the material, the less vague the questions are.

Yankee

limsam

2003-06-18, 10:42 pm

I can prove many questions were misleading, & vague.

The more I study, the more I understand. The more I understand, the more I understand how marketing affects the stuff in the certification exams.

Most of the certification exams, especially M$ ones, have marketing things they want you to remember and vomit to customers.

And the more I understand, the more I understand how greedy the vendors are.

BTW, study some vendor neutral stuff. Douglas Comer's TCP/IP book is a good start. You can follow up with Radia Perlman's Interconnections. Well, there are many.

Yankee

2003-06-19, 4:16 am

I do own and have read Perlman's Interconnections Second Edition (more than once) but thanks for asking.

Yankee

limsam

2003-06-19, 7:09 pm

Good reading. I read it once only. Probably, I need a refresher.

SureshHomepage

2003-06-20, 7:17 pm

I agree with Yanke he is correct? I woudl say if you are very good on your subject you wouldn't find the questions vague or poorly worded. I never found any problem with any of the exams with Cisco but its not the case with Checkpoint exams where I found the questions are awfully and poorly written ones.

I strongly agree to the point that manby of the cert exams have now become part of market trend.

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