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Daniel
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      12-17-2004
Hello everyone,

I am due to take the 70-271 exam on Tues 4th Jan and I have read in a post
in this newsgroup that the pass mark is 700 out of 1000. This is only 70%
and I thought 80% was required.

How does the scoring work? I don't understand how they get 700. Do you get
so many marks for each question? What if you have to select multiple answers
in a single question and only get half of them correct? Would you get some
marks for each correct answer in that question?

How many questions can I expect in the 70-271 exam?

Many thanks in advance,
Daniel


 
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Gensan
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      12-18-2004
Hi Daniel,

I just took (and passed) 70-271 a few hours ago. Yes, you
need at least 700 points to pass. There were only 49
questions, mostly requiring just 1 answer. I got a few
questions asking for at least 2 answers.

Hope this helps

Gensan
>-----Original Message-----
>Hello everyone,
>
>I am due to take the 70-271 exam on Tues 4th Jan and I

have read in a post
>in this newsgroup that the pass mark is 700 out of 1000.

This is only 70%
>and I thought 80% was required.
>
>How does the scoring work? I don't understand how they

get 700. Do you get
>so many marks for each question? What if you have to

select multiple answers
>in a single question and only get half of them correct?

Would you get some
>marks for each correct answer in that question?
>
>How many questions can I expect in the 70-271 exam?
>
>Many thanks in advance,
>Daniel
>
>
>.
>

 
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Jason
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      12-18-2004
These are the kinds of questions that I enjoy seeing because they are
actually asking for specific insights that are not necessarily found from
conventional research methods.

The answer is that some questions carry more weight than others. Weighted
questions are those that cover multiple areas within the parameters of a
single exam question. For example, you may see a question that asks you to
identify both the purpose and numerical designation of an IP address, the
default gateway, the subnet mask, and the DNS id of a computer given
standard ipconfig info given from a command line entry. This tests not only
your ability to identify each of these, but to distinguish the purpose and
function of each of these networking concepts.


"Gensan" <> wrote in message
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> Hi Daniel,
>
> I just took (and passed) 70-271 a few hours ago. Yes, you
> need at least 700 points to pass. There were only 49
> questions, mostly requiring just 1 answer. I got a few
> questions asking for at least 2 answers.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Gensan
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hello everyone,
> >
> >I am due to take the 70-271 exam on Tues 4th Jan and I

> have read in a post
> >in this newsgroup that the pass mark is 700 out of 1000.

> This is only 70%
> >and I thought 80% was required.
> >
> >How does the scoring work? I don't understand how they

> get 700. Do you get
> >so many marks for each question? What if you have to

> select multiple answers
> >in a single question and only get half of them correct?

> Would you get some
> >marks for each correct answer in that question?
> >
> >How many questions can I expect in the 70-271 exam?
> >
> >Many thanks in advance,
> >Daniel
> >
> >
> >.
> >



 
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