From: Joshua Lauer (jslauer@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Oct 09 2006 - 18:43:23 ART
i agree,
my lab wasnt exactly easy, at least for the 4
attempts I tried it :) I dont think the community is
in any danger of getting "dumbed down" anytime soon
:)
jl
Joshua Lauer
CCIE#16024
CCNP, CCSP, CCDP, CCIP, INFOSEC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cisco Key" <ciscokey@googlemail.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: CCIE Numbers Flying.......
> Ladies and Gentleman
>
> Its emails like this, that I wish we could Null
> Bucket
>
> If we fail we are broken but should we pass we
> worry about the number of
> people passing because of the validity of the
> certification!
>
> In the 11 years that the CCIE program has been
> running there has been 16000
> certified CCIE's - that 16000 certified CCIE in
> R&S, SP, Security, Voice,
> Storage and ISP Dial
>
> There is probably 16000 CCNP's in San Francisco
> alone, no disrespect to the
> CCNP certification,and with the new CCNP being
> launched in December I am
> sure the CCNP population is going to slow down
> with all the new additions.
>
> That's what makes Cisco so successful they are
> always refining the
> certifications making it tougher and tougher
>
> Lets also understand a lot of the engineers
> passing the lab at this stage
> are engineers that have been attempting the lab
> for the last 2 to 3 years on
> the average of 3 attempts +.
>
> We also never hear of the engineers that have
> attempted so many times that
> they have given up. I am sure there are many more
> engineers failing the lab
> and giving up then engineers passing the labs.
>
> In summary I think we should be happy for the
> people passing, and feel
> comfortable that cisco know very well what the
> value of a CCIE is and also
> feel comfortable in the fact that they will keep
> the standards high, and I
> pray that I will soon be part of the CCIE league
> of engineers!
>
> Best Regards
>
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