If Cisco changes CCNA, CCNP, and others to only include Sim and Simlet questions, my score would be...

You forget the 'trick' questions, the gotcha's. Sure you could simulate some gotcha's in a sim question but what is there to guess in say a question about access-lists? A couple of answers with different directions the list is applied to, maybe a couple of different ways to apply the access-lists. How do you guess where you place them? These sort of questions are needed, they test your knowledge and understanding. If I get a question like this I already know what I am looking for. But even when I read the question I already have a good grasp of the answer, I eliminate some after that. This is hardly guessing. If it would be so much guessing why do so many; if not most, fail the CCNA exam? I am not even talking about the harder exams here. Don't get me wrong: more sim questions would be a good thing. All simlet is not. If it would be more cli stuff do I get the entire cli then? Can I test things? I would like that! I agree that labs and sims take more skill, that is probally why they still label the 8 hour one CCIE ;-)