From: Michael Miller (michael.a.miller@att.net)
Date: Thu Jun 26 2003 - 04:28:55 GMT-3
I think cisco has determined that we already have much too much free time on
our hands and want to ensure that network experts don't have any
disillusionment of having a "life".
Mike
p.s. I just passed the ccnp recert, and it was a pain in the butt.
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Jay
Hennigan
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 10:03 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: CCNP recert harder than CCIE written
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Pratt, Jeremy wrote:
> I just recertified my CCNP today as I haven't gone to the lab yet. I found
> that this test was harder than the IE written that I took 6 months ago.
> Based on the input I received from my IE friends they advised that the IE
> recert was harder than the original time they took it, one of the IE's is
in
> the 2000's and recerted twice now.
>
> I'd say that based on all of this that Cisco is clearing the rif raf and
> wannabe's from the ranks.
I just took and passed the CCIE Security written which qualifies as an
R & S (or any CCIE) recert. It's fairly tough, but I found that it
followed the blueprint on the Cisco website.
There are two types of "hard" when it comes to this type of test. Hard
as in it thoroughly tests your knowledge in depth and diversity, and
hard as in it's difficult to comprehend exactly what the questions and
or answer choices are because they're ambiguous or poorly worded.
I'm finding that the written tests seem to be more clearly written
now than in the past, but seem to be more thorough in terms of testing
for depth and diversity. Meaning that if you know the material well
they're less hard. If you don't they're harder. In other words,
better tests of your knowledge. No more double and triple negatives
like "Which of the following is not false?" with answer choices that
have "don't" or "never" in them. Grrrrr.
> Does anyone know if the NP and DP gives you more access to areas of CCO
like
> the IE does. I've heard about this but didn't find anything extra.
I don't believe so.
I've heard that an IE recert automatically renews your NP and DP now,
but haven't seen my NP/DP status update yet. The NA/NP/DA/DP and IE were
at one time totally separate programs. If IE recert now renews the NP/DP,
that's a welcome change.
-- Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Administration - jay@west.net WestNet: Connecting you to the planet. 805 884-6323 WB6RDV NetLojix Communications, Inc. - http://www.netlojix.com/
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