From: Darby Weaver (darbyweaver@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Apr 15 2007 - 19:01:56 ART
The one I like is the story about the Proctors
watching you using some remote control program, say
VNC.
Then when they see candidates just typing in configs
blindly...
I recall a proctor and I speaking about the same thing
at the end of a lab once.
Hmmm...
He said so many candidates pass through who can barely
figure out what DLCI is coming from a Frame Switch and
if it was how to troubleshoot it...
I asked him if it was that bad - he said it was.
I'd tell your friend, to just save the $1200.00 and
just put the CCIE Logo on the resume...
Don't even declare it...
Just don't go and try and work for anyone who actually
requires it, like a partner, Cisco, or any company
that might actuall ask your friend to do the work...
Amounts to the same thing anyway, more or less.
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Now with Dynamips and the dumps - which are never
complete by the sounds of it and the questions we get
here on GS, I'd say eventually we may have CCIE's or
those that say there are who may have never even
touched a real router or switch.
Hah!
--- CCIEwnaB <cciewnab@gmail.com> wrote:
> OK smart peeps,
>
> I have a friend who is currently working on her
> CCNP, and keeps giving me a
> hard time for not having passed the lab yet (1
> failed attempt under my belt)
> but I'm still hitting it hard and will be going back
> in another 2 moths.
>
> Anyway, she's convinced that when she finishes her
> last NP test she'll just
> pay the $1200 to the folks who shall remian nameless
> and study the "3 real
> CCIE labs" and pass on the first attempt." I agree
> with what's been said
> here so many times before, that the cert only means
> something if you truly
> are an expert and have earned it. So let's not get
> everyone all wound up.
>
> That being said, does anyone have a few stories I
> can share with her, that
> might be helpfull in keeping her on the "HIGH ROAD".
> I keep trying to tell
> her, she's going to pay $1200 for a couple useless
> old files and then what,
> go to the proctor on test day and say, hey this
> isn't the test I was
> expecting you must have made a mistake?
>
> I'm sure there are other folks here who have fallen
> for it, please share
> your experiences so my friend will see the light and
> not surrender to the
> dark side...she knows who she is
>
>
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