I received the January Newsletter of the Cisco Learning Network where is announced some changes on both written and lab CCIE RS exam. The two announced changes for the written will take effect on February 17th 2009 and basically consists on the following:

  1. «Candidates will now be required to answer each question before moving on to the next question; candidates will no longer be allowed to skip a question and come back to it at a later time»;
  2. «The overall exam score and the exam passing score will now be reported as a scaled score, on a scale from 300-1000. This change will not affect the difficulty of the current set of exams and will assure CCIE written exams will be consistent with Cisco’s other career certification exams».