Q: What is the difference between the mocks-lab {5 DAYS} 
and the boot camp {15 DAYS} ?

A: The difference is 10 days. Just joking.

a) The Mocklab week simulates the exam lab in a much tougher 
(and controlled) way.

b) Everyday you have a completely new scenario with new tasks which
 you must complete on that same day.

c) This goes on the whole week. So you have same time available as in 
the lab. It gives you a good understanding whether you would be
able to complete an exam in  the given time.

d) We are constantly monitoring each student and see the keystroke the 
moment they type it in.

We won't intervene, but it gives us a better understanding of their 
tactics and approaches, their strength and their weaknesses.

We make notes and talk to them about improvements afterwards.

e) there is not such lecturing as in the bootcamp. The 'lecturing' is 
more a brief discussion of what they were doing wrong in their last lab
and what should be improved for the next lab and how they could have 
done better. Since they don't repeat the same  mistakes (we hope) 
they get better and better from day to day.

f) it is much more stressful

g) no interacting between students during the 8 hrs. Silence in the classroom.

h) students must ask the same way they would ask a proctor

i) they may only use the univercd-path of the CCO (just as in the exam)



a) The Bootcamp weeks are much  different. More lecturing, more time to 
complete the tasks, talks between the students, knowledge and experience exchange.

b) Everything is (seems to be) more relaxed (at least compared with the 
mocklab).
Though all students tell us the 3 weeks are very tough and exhausting

c) More variety of tasks spread over more days or a whole week to complete.
(there is one mocklab day in the 3rd week)

d) our monitoring of students here is through SNMP, Syslog and our telnets 
into the workgoup's devices. No monitoring of  realtime keystrokes.

e) there is interaction between the students and with the instructor.
(knowledge transfer, hints, tips and tricks, experiences)

f) students control their own timing, decide when to have breaks and how 
long to work in the evenings

g) students can browse the CCO in full and any other helpful sites

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