From: Jay Hennigan (jay@west.net)
Date: Tue Mar 02 2004 - 20:43:46 GMT-3
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 ihatecisco@att.net wrote:
> Why doesn't cisco limit the CCIE examination to a standardized set of
> information. As of know anything in the IOS command books is fair game. and
> i would wager anything on their website/tac would be fair game as well.
They do. There is a blueprint on the website. Yes, anything in IOS/CatOS
is fair game, and you can expect to have one or two items come winging
in from way out in left field, but part of what they are testing is your
ability to find answers to "out of left field" zingers under pressure.
Having said that, the core topics are fairly well laid out, and if you
absolutely nail them, the "left field zingers" items won't torpedo you.
> The entire objective of the CCIE is:
> Exams are the core of the CCIE program
> Training is not the CCIE program objective. Rather, the focus is on
> identifying those experts capable of understanding and navigating the
> subtleties, intricacies and potential pitfalls inherent to end-to-end
> networking. To become certified as a CCIE you must pass BOTH a written
> qualification exam AND the corresponding hands-on lab exam in one of the
> CCIE tracks.
Indeed.
> Yes things need to change and be updated for technology. But picking some
> obscurely documented feature/tac article to throw on a test gets really old
> after a while. Especially for some of us that have jobs.
If truly obscurely-documented rarely found stuff was routinely rated at
high point values, I would agree with you.
Some of us that have jobs need to demonstrate both expert level networking
skills and the ability to relatively calmly and without panic find and fix
the one obscurely documented feature that is causing a major outage under
pressure. The lab exam does a good job of testing both.
If 90% of the points are core routing and switching technologies and
all of their quirks, and 10% are obscurely-documented features, then
that is a pretty good hint as to how to budget study time.
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