Question 1 depicts a typical test question. It's a multiple-choice question that requires you to select a single correct answer. Following the question is a brief summary of each potential answer and why it was either right or wrong.
This sample question corresponds closely to those you'll see on Cisco certification exams. To select the correct answer during the test, you position the cursor over the radio button next to Answer B and click the mouse to select that particular choice. The only difference between the questions on the certification exams and questions such as this one is that the real questions are not immediately followed by the answers. In the following question, one or more answers are possible. This type of question provides check boxes rather than radio buttons for marking all the correct selections.
For this type of question, you must select one or more answers to answer the question correctly. For Question 2, you have to position the cursor over the check boxes next to items A and C and click on both to get credit for a correct answer. These two types of questions can appear in many forms and constitute the foundation on which most Cisco certification exam questions rest. More complex questions might include so-called exhibits, which are usually tables or data-content layouts of one form or another. You'll be expected to use the information displayed in the exhibit to guide your answer to the question. Other questions involving exhibits might use charts or diagrams to help document a workplace scenario that you'll be asked to troubleshoot or configure. Paying careful attention to exhibits is the key to success; be prepared to toggle between the picture and the question as you work. Often, both are complex enough that you might not be able to remember all of either one. Some questions are fill in the blank. This format involves entering the name of a command, filename, command-line argument, or Cisco-related terminology. A typical fill-in-the-blank question appears in Question 3. This question provides a box in which to enter the answer.
Be sure to read this type of question very carefully. Without having any answers in front of you, there is nothing to jog your memory and it makes guessing almost impossible. A question that asks for the command to be placed in a text box will want the full command, no abbreviations. In a simulator question, you usually can use abbreviations because the simulator is measuring whether the task gets accomplished, as opposed to how precise the command entry was. In some simulator questions, you are even able to use the question mark (?) if you need help. Be as specific as possible when answering the core question, however. Cisco also includes drag-and-drop questions that are very similar to matching questions.
The drag-and-drop questions aren't new to the Cisco exams, but they are fairly new to many of the CCNP exams. They provide a table consisting of two columns of data, such as technical terms and their definitions. All terms have to be positioned (using the mouse) in front of their respective definitions to be correct. To drag a term, position the mouse over the term and press the left mouse button. Then move the mouse to drag the term to the correct location. Release the mouse button to drop the term in front of its definition. |