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Saylor CS402
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I am a network architect (I hold a CCNP, CCNA-S, A+, Net+) for a fairly large organization and I figured the CS402 exam would be a cake walk. I took the practice exam this morning and failed (64%)?!?

Are the proctored exams similar to the open exams and if so, are they all so full of errors? Some questions were poorly worded, plain wrong or had what I feel were just silly answers.

Thanks!
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rjankowski Wrote:I am a network architect (I hold a CCNP, CCNA-S, A+, Net+) for a fairly large organization and I figured the CS402 exam would be a cake walk. I took the practice exam this morning and failed (64%)?!?

Are the proctored exams similar to the open exams and if so, are they all so full of errors? Some questions were poorly worded, plain wrong or had what I feel were just silly answers.

Thanks!

I don't know about the proctored final, but I agree with you on the practice final. I also worked in networking and data security, something I don't think the course writer can say Sad
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#3
Glad I'm not the only one. For $25 I might just take a swing at it to see but I guess I could always take an intro to computers class, that should be fun!
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rjankowski Wrote:I am a network architect (I hold a CCNP, CCNA-S, A+, Net+) for a fairly large organization and I figured the CS402 exam would be a cake walk. I took the practice exam this morning and failed (64%)?!?

Are the proctored exams similar to the open exams and if so, are they all so full of errors? Some questions were poorly worded, plain wrong or had what I feel were just silly answers.

Thanks!

Well this has me worried. I'm studying for the Comptia Network + and I was hoping that would be enough to pass this exam.
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yb1 Wrote:Well this has me worried. I'm studying for the Comptia Network + and I was hoping that would be enough to pass this exam.

I was studying for Net+ and the TECEP that CS402 originally married up with, and it seemed like the Saylor/TECEP info was all a generation or three old compared to the Net+ exam. I was relatively confident I'd be able to pass it regardless, but I ended up shifting my focus to some other courses instead.
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There are issues with the exams (both the credit and non credit granting exams). I am trying to work with Saylor to remedy the issues but there's no promise that it will happen. So far two questions (on the credit exam) have been fixed, I am working on 10 others at the moment.

I would hold off on trying to take this one for now, but don't rule it out yet.
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hightecrebel Wrote:I was studying for Net+ and the TECEP that CS402 originally married up with, and it seemed like the Saylor/TECEP info was all a generation or three old compared to the Net+ exam. I was relatively confident I'd be able to pass it regardless, but I ended up shifting my focus to some other courses instead.

Three generations ago? I didn't see anything in there about ARCNET networking or configuring banyan VINES street talk services??? You crazy kids today Wink
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Saylor: Env Ethics - 3cr
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#8
I'm mostly disappointed that they don't even touch on my favorite transmission method, IPoAC: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149
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rjankowski Wrote:I'm mostly disappointed that they don't even touch on my favorite transmission method, IPoAC: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149

haha, this is great. what could possibly go wrong?
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jsd Wrote:haha, this is great. what could possibly go wrong?

The informal report from the RFC 1149 event | BLUG

Apparently the birds can be distracted rather easily and very high ping times.

BBC News - SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'

Still transferred a large file faster than a DSL link...
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