CCNP - BSCI command line questions?

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BSCI command line questions?

hbukowski

2003-06-25, 1:35 pm

Hello all,

I just took the BSCI, and happily passed it, no thanks to the following.

Does anyone know the correct way to answer the questions where you pick a command out of a numbered list?

By this I mean: what do you type in the blank field?

If the correct answer is choice 15 in the list, "15 Router(config)#ip subnet-zero"

Do they want you to type:

a) just the number, "15"
b) just the command, "ip subnet-zero"
c) the whole line, "15 Router(config)#ip subnet-zero"
d) something else???

The instructions were pretty ambiguous, and of course nobody in the test center had any idea.

I'd like to think I didn't miss questions simply because I couldn't figure out how to give the right answer...

Thanks,
Hank

peterd

2003-06-26, 10:44 am

Hello,

it's been a while since I took the routing exam but as I recall the questions asked me to type in the command in one exam or to give the number from the list in one of the other exams.

It wasn't ambiguous at all in my exams, it was pretty obvious that they wanted just the number in that particular exam.

Regards
Peter

Townsend

2003-06-26, 12:08 pm

I just passed the BSCI exam about a week ago and on the questions that gave you a numbered list of commands from which to chose, my test had a line above the question that said give the number of the correct command. If you passed what ever you did must have worked. Congratulations.

hbukowski

2003-06-27, 10:47 am

Thanks! I guess it shows up both ways. I definitely remember typing the whole command, and thinking "I hope this works."

You would think that Cisco wouldn't expend the extra energy to come up with two instruction sets for the same type of question....

Thanks again,
Hank

peterd

2003-06-30, 2:27 am

Hello,

it queries whether you're capable of following simple instructions or whether you go off and do your own thing.

Like the ten question test that is given at times in schools, etc...

at the top of the test it says 'read all questions before starting the test' but 95% of the class ignore this and jump right in.

Question ten states 'answer this question only and ignore 1 - 9' so most people fail the test.

One other point is that the Cisco exams are pretty simple, they seem hard at the time but really they're not that difficult. As long as you read the book and do a bit of poking around with a router/switch/simulator program then you'll pass, so Cisco have to find some way of failing a few people.

Hence the obscure wording on some questions or, as in this case, different methods of supplying the correct answer.

Regards
Peter

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