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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Stealth on March 01, 2004, 09:44:01 pm

Title: Cisco
Post by: Stealth on March 01, 2004, 09:44:01 pm

i'm taking the Sem 3 test tomorrow, and i'm afraid i'm not going to pass :(  I've barely passed the first two tests, but this semester was extra hard.  a lot of hard stuff to memorize, like holddown timers, and other times.  addresses, etc.  this stupid 3.0 curriculum :(

Title: Cisco
Post by: icespeed on March 01, 2004, 09:46:41 pm

Well, if you've put the work into it, don't worry too much about the test. Worrying doesn't really help- or over-stressing doesn't anyway... Good luck!

Title: Cisco
Post by: jdjtcagle on March 01, 2004, 09:47:42 pm

Advice: (count to ten..and run with sicors)

Real Advice: have none, don't really make fabulous grades:D

Title: Cisco
Post by: Stealth on March 01, 2004, 10:31:44 pm

lol i was hoping someone that had already taken the sem.3 test (like KaZaN or mikhael or someone else i don't know about) could help assure me that i'll pass it :D... like, tell me how hard it is :)

Title: Cisco
Post by: mikhael on March 01, 2004, 11:31:43 pm

Stealth, the tests are all designed to prompt you to remember the information you know. Don't worry about it. If you know the information, the test helps you. If you don't know the info, the test will bend you over a table and use you a like a prison *****.

If it helps at all, the first time I took a Cisco exam, I was coming off an 11pm-8am shift, I had never even looked at any Cisco hardware, nor had I studied anything (in other words, I didn't know anything, period). While I did fail the exam, I only failed it by one question.

Title: Cisco
Post by: Rictor on March 01, 2004, 11:56:27 pm

Are we talking about the Cisco Networking Academy stuff, or actual professional tests like the CCNA (and onward) exams?

And mik, I definitely fell into the latter category :D:D

Title: Cisco
Post by: mikhael on March 02, 2004, 12:04:26 am

Professional certification tests, which tend towards practical questions rather than theoretical ones.

Cisco Networking Academy stuff is... well... odd. In Cisco internal lore, the Networking Academy stuff is a convenient way to shed tax liability. They don't really believe in it or even care about how its run.

Title: Cisco
Post by: Stealth on March 02, 2004, 03:36:44 pm

really?  cause i'm in the cisco networking academy.

could you give me more information please on this networking academy?  I've been enrolled since middle of last year, i'm just finishing semester 3, but i'd really like to know more of what it's about, like, why cisco is offering it for free and such :/ :doubt:

by the way, i failed with a 67.4.  

but after a bit of revision, i know some of the questions i got wrong, so i'm retaking it tomorrow

Title: Cisco
Post by: mikhael on March 02, 2004, 04:06:19 pm

They offer it for free becasue its good cheap public relations and a tax write off.

Title: Cisco
Post by: Stealth on March 02, 2004, 05:24:31 pm

yeah OK... makes sense.

one thing you might be able to help me with... i don't feel like digging through the curriculum for this:
on full deplex, how many pairs of cables are required?  I thought it was four (right?) because doesn't half-duplex require two pairs of cable?

Title: Cisco
Post by: Stealth on March 02, 2004, 05:28:27 pm

oh, and one more thing... is it "vertical cross connect cabling" or is it something else?  there were two answers on the test, one was "Vertical Cross Connect Cabling" and the other was "Vertical *something* Cabling".  i know i got it wrong, but i can't remember which answer i put :-/

which is the correct term?

Title: Cisco
Post by: Anaz on March 02, 2004, 07:29:16 pm

don'tcha just hate cisco speak?

I'm in sem 2 right now...I passed the sem 1 test no pbs. and I don't know the answer off the top of my head either.

Title: Cisco
Post by: Stealth on March 03, 2004, 04:14:34 pm

just for the record, i passed on the retest with an 84.7

Title: Cisco
Post by: Janos on March 03, 2004, 04:18:29 pm

FRED. Now.

Title: Cisco
Post by: Stealth on March 03, 2004, 04:57:46 pm

eh?  why?

Title: Cisco
Post by: aldo_14 on March 03, 2004, 04:58:47 pm

Who's Fred?

Title: Cisco
Post by: Stealth on March 03, 2004, 05:04:45 pm

beats me