MCSE tests suck.

[Entelin]

The correct answer is 255.255.255.240, which makes sence of course if
you take out the line about their ISP. Its just badly written.

On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 00:31, Kevin Brown wrote:
> > The test content is easy, but I cant beleive some of these questions...
> > I guess Micro$oft's way of rasing the bar on their tests is making them
> > progressivly worse written. I biched about this the last test but damnit
> > this is insane!  I am staring at a test question right now that makes no
> > sence, in their senario they have an ISP give an entire class C of
> > internet addresses (255) to a office of 100 computers, the ip address
> > range isnt a valid range for internet use, a company that size
> > realisticly wouldent use more than 3 of the 255, and they specify a 24
> > bit subnet or 255.255.255.0 . Then after giving you all this completely
> > bogus info they ask an off the wall question like what subnet mask you
> > would use for your network if you wanted 10 subnets and 10 hosts per
> > subnet.  Even if that did make sence to do, they already specified the
> > subnet mask as 24 bits. So you have to just guess at what they are
> > actually getting at.
> 
> Welcome to Microsoft logic.  Of course a class C can be further divided down
> into smaller subnets (ASU divides two class Bs into 64 address chunks
> [255.255.255.192]).  So the network would need to be divided into at least 12
> IPs per subnet from the class C.  Wish I had that subnet calculator program that
> was on my system at work.  Makes figuring this out so much easier.
> 
> > Thank god for Braindumps, if I dident have these I fear the only way to
> > pass these tests would be to stick a crayon in my brain.
> > 
> > Cisco's tests are actually well written. This is probably one good
> > reason why theres so many "Paper MCSE's" around, They get out in the
> > feild and dont have any grasp on the right way to do things. But then
> > again if people had a grasp on the right way of doing things there would
> > be more *nix and less windows.
> > 
> > Latter!
> > 
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