From: Peter van Oene (pvo@usermail.com)
Date: Mon Mar 24 2003 - 23:01:25 GMT-3
At 05:28 AM 3/25/2003 +0700, Phong Tran Tien wrote:
>Hi group,
>
>I see the truth that the number of CCIEs grows faster today than before. I
>took and passed the lab on 19 March, got the number #11285 and I notice
>that Mr Ozan Ocal, CCIE #11318, got his number on 22 March. It means that
>we have about 33 new CCIEs (11318-11285) in only 3 days (19 to 22 March).
>Someone told me that the number of new CCIEs is 400 each month this year,
>is it true? If it is true, in this year we will have about new 4,800 CCIEs.
>
>The CCIE program started in 1994 and up to this time, it's about 10 years
>long, and the total number of CCIEs in the world is now about 10,300 (the
>first CCIE got number 1025). It means that on average the number of CCIEs
>grows 1,030 each year (10,300/10). But compare with the number above,
>4,800 this year, how do you think? Does this mean that, when the number of
>CCIEs increases faster, CCIE certification is easier to get and the value
>of the certification decreases?
This drives me nuts. In 93/94 or whenever the program launched, very
little folks knew about it. Since then, it has become more and more well
known and thus more and more folks have decided to attack it. Further, the
amount of study material has grown exponentially since then. Of course the
rate of certification is higher now: it has to be.
Expecting that the rate would remain consistent would mean that the degree
of difficultly would need to rise in line with demand. Is this fair? Even
so, what would it represent? Ideally, the program is meant to certify
those folks who are adept at dealing with IOS in its many favours and
various network topologies. If more folks decide to learn these skills,
then more folks should become certified. We shouldn't make the test harder
just to stem the rate of growth.
Just because you passed a test, lab or otherwise, doesn't mean you are
worth a six figure salary. If you haven't figured that out, you might want
to study a little longer and realize that there is more to business than
rapidly building weird networks in short periods of time.
Pete
>
>Tran Tien Phong
>CCIE #11285
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