From: Dale Shaw (dale.shaw@gmail.com)
Date: Tue May 06 2008 - 02:26:47 ART
Irrespective of how hard or not the CCIE lab is, I agree with one key
point that the original poster made:
Just like every other vendor certification, there is no way for a
prospective employer, or anyone for that matter, to differentiate
between someone who has years and years of practical experience and
blitzed the lab first go, and someone with relatively limited
experience but who brute-forced their way through.
The end result is "CCIE", not "CCIE (passed first go)" or "CCIE
(passed on the 5th attempt)". In my opinion, despite the practical
nature of the lab, it is still possible to be a "paper CCIE".
To use the fruit comparison analogy in a different way: comparing
CCIEs can indeed be like comparing apples and oranges! -- some are
good, some are bad.
Perhaps Cisco could consider a system like CISSP, whereby you have to
be endorsed by someone who is already certified, and/or you have to
meet other pre-requisites, like number of years of relevant work
experience.
cheers,
Dale
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