From: Bill Fallon (bfallon@xxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Feb 26 2001 - 23:39:36 GMT-3
I agree that this thread should be stopped but I must Voice my opinion on
this as well as something else. I disagree WITH ANY AND ALL STATEMENTS
that say that the CCIE is easier as far as test material.
- did it ever occur to those who say its easier:
a) there is much more Cisco Gear deployed now then there was 5-7 years ago
b) with E-bay and used hardware, most people can build there own study
racks for home to study
c) Many companies today buy Cisco gear for their employess to study for the
CCIE
d) More Companies will pay for employees to get their CCIE
e) By removing topics from the Test they have just gone in more depth on
other subjects, and made those topics more difficult.
f) I just took my first attempt in Halifax and did not pass---Made it to
day 2 but I made dumb mistakes and did not make it to troubleshooting--The
Proctor in Halifax told me that with the 6 month backlog of people waiting
to take the test, only about 10% are first timers. The rest are 2nd and
third timers. This would explain an increase in the number of people who
are passing as of late.
g) I know CCIE's who look at what topics they need to know today and some
say, "holy crap I did not need to know that".
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I have one more gripe about what I am seeing on this study group---I have
been seeing people disguising actual CCIE lab test questions on this Group,
and that is a violation of the NDA any way you slice it. This group is for
gaining knowledge and asking questions in CCIE test related topics, not for
getting answers to questions YOU could not answer on your test. Do the
research yourself, because there is nothing on the CCIE lab that you cannot
find the answers to yourself, with some effort. I am so tired of people
expecting things to be handed to them on a silver platter...
I will have you know that the CCIE proctors (as I was told) read these
messages and remove things that people ask about that came from actual
exams---so Please KNOCK IT OFF, and YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!!! YOU GRIPE
THAT THE TEST IS GETTING EASIER AND BY DOING THIS YOU ARE MAKING IT
EASIER!!!!!!
At 06:48 PM 2/15/01 -0800, Eric Phils wrote:
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>> From: Eric Phils[SMTP:E_PHILS@YAHOO.COM]
>> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 8:48:40 PM
>> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>> Subject: RE: Number of new CCIE's (off topic)
>> Auto forwarded by a Rule
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>Let me tell you how the CCIE Lab was when it first
>started.
>
>One of the doods in my group got his CCIE in 1993.
>Was in Cisco starting 1991 in TAC when they had 20
>people there.
>
>He said during the CCIE test "You could bring in
>notes, your computer, and take as much time as you
>wanted on the test per day. In fact I spent four
>hours trying to get OSPF into BGP and when I powered
>everything off and back on it worked fine. FUCKING
>BUGS back then were huge!"
>
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