From: Rodrigo Paes (rpaes@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Oct 09 2006 - 19:54:05 ART
Hi...
I think that the explosion on the number of different workbooks,
and access to real or virtual routers has helped also... I guess
around 4 years ago, there were like 2 workbooks, and not that much
online rack rental sites, now you google "CCIE" and gets a _huge_
number of hits on both...
before the 10k days... I don't think it was all that easy to an
average joe to put his hands on all the lab equipment for around
$2.50/h
CCIE candidates are much better prepared now a days... at least I
was _way_ overmatched on my first attempt ;)
[]s
Rodrigo Paes
CCIE #14054 (R&S and SP)
On 10/9/06, Joshua Lauer <jslauer@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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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