How Does Cisco Create Exams? + CCNA GiveAWAY - INE BUNDLE!!

About this video

NetworkChuck explains how Cisco creates its certification exams, based on a conversation he had with someone from the Cisco Learning Network, and announces an INE CCNA training bundle giveaway. He says the Cisco exam team is an isolated silo that surveys industry leaders — CIOs of major companies, talent recruiters, and large companies that need IT talent — to learn what skills they need from network, security, and collaboration engineers, then builds difficult exam questions around those skills. The disconnect, he says, is that the Cisco Learning Network and other training providers who create study material have little to no contact with the exam team; all they receive are the broad exam topics, the same thing students get, so they create content partly flying blind — which explains exam questions your study material never prepared you for. The giveaway bundle covers ICND1 and ICND2 training videos, IPv4 addressing and subnetting, ACLs, practice exams, and an online workbook with five full-scale labs, with two-year streaming as he describes it. Entry runs through his website, opens at 7:00 p.m. that night, lasts two weeks, and offers bonus entries for actions such as retweeting, subscribing to his YouTube channel, and commenting. He also says he is creating a CCNA and CCNP Facebook study group.

Key takeaways

• He says Cisco’s exam team surveys CIOs, talent recruiters, and major employers to determine what skills certification exams should test
• The exam team is isolated: training-content creators, including the Cisco Learning Network, have little to no contact with it
• Training providers receive only the broad exam topics — the same list students get — so they create study material partly flying blind
• That disconnect explains why exams can include questions your study material did not prepare you for
• The INE CCNA bundle giveaway he announces includes ICND1/ICND2 videos, practice exams, and a workbook with five full-scale labs; entry lasts two weeks with bonus entries for sharing and subscribing

Episode details: published August 2, 2017 · 8:56 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are NetworkChuck’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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