RE: Backlog for CCIE Lab (RTP at least)

From: Jay Hennigan (jay@xxxxxxxx)
Date: Tue Jan 02 2001 - 14:05:13 GMT-3


   
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Lampron, George wrote:

> Dave,
> I am a board member of the local Cisco Users Group and our last meeting
> covered the certification process.
>
> Currently in the entire world there are about 5500 CCIE's of which about 70
> are fully certified and half of those are employed by Cisco.

I assume you meant to say 70 percent, not 70. What do you mean by fully
certified? What happened to the other 30%? Are these CCIEs who have not
recertified after two years and are now inactive? Do these numbers come
from Cisco?

> This means that there are about 1900 CCIE's in the general population in the
> entire world. About half of those are US based and the
> other 950 are based around the rest of the world.

The percentages you cite seem in line with the info on the Cisco site as
of December 4,

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/625/ccie/ccie_program/ccie_present.html

but your numbers seem low.

> The current pass rate for the written exam is about 40% and the pass rate
> for the Lab is about 14%.

Does Cisco release these figures? They sound about right from the reports
of those who have been to the lab exam.

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