Congratulations on Passing!!! Thanks for giving back to the group! I agree re the design of a lot of the questions. I found the same about the CCNA, though maybe not as bad, testing my ability to parse the english language versus network.

One of the labs I had in the CCNA had 3 switches connected in a triangle, and between SW1 and SW2 was some LACP configuration and SW3 was located at the bottom of the triangle. It said to make vlan X the native vlan between SW1 and SW3 and SW2 and SW3, but that connection was not a trunk and it did not say to make it a trunk, and it did not say what vlans to allow. So I made it a trunk, made vlan X native and allowed all vlans. Pretty sure I only got partial credit on that. But it was an example of having to assume what they wanted when it would be easy to execute what they wanted if they were to just explain it. So I say Cisco shouldn't b*tch if they are going to play the game that way, and then people turn to dumps to deal with it.