This was coming from a 5x CCIE instructor who is on the advisory board. I was even told at a bootcamp that some of the questions on the **** are 'Flag' questions that are only out in the Braindumps and don't count against your score. I do a good job nowadays of keeping field notes and old configurations for reference material.

I have also found over the years of being an Engineer that even if you don't know it 100% it will atleast jar a memory of 'oh, I remember reading about that' and you know which reference material to go look at to validate your decision. Normally your first gut instinct is always right but the question will try to mislead you down another direction. I have found over the years of taking Cisco exams its easier to scan the answer first then read the question. I found a lot of the questions on the V2 exam to be just obscure questions where you read a running config and have to know some off the wall detail like reading a hexadecimal HSRP mac address to determine which vlan its associated with. I just recently passed the CCNP switch again to renew my CCNP by using just the books, CBT and Bryant videos while doing the labs and only got by in the mid 800's.

I attended a boot camp a few years ago for my CCNP and passed in the high 900's on both the Switch and Route exams. People who are scoring 930+ are using brain **** or are going to a instructor lead class where they are outlining all the material and paraphrasing all the questions for you.

Cisco cracking down on brain dumps