From: Marko Milivojevic (markom@markom.info)
Date: Sat Jul 19 2008 - 16:23:04 ART
Good point you make about study.
This appears to be very tricky exam to prepare for, especially given
no experience about delivery. Reading list is deceptively short and
biased towards MPLS
(https://cisco.hosted.jivesoftware.com/docs/DOC-2462), blueprint could
be more vague only if it were writen in Japanese
(https://cisco.hosted.jivesoftware.com/docs/DOC-2461) and exam
developers are proud of making "an evil exam" (Russ). Adding to that,
demo exam is pretty inconsistent
(https://cisco.hosted.jivesoftware.com/docs/DOC-2427).
At this point I'm with Scott - I am more preparing to pay $980 to be
abused than I'm studying for the actual exam. I expect pass rate to be
extremely low and I would be surprised to see more than few CCDE's in
October - if any. The high score on demo in Orlando was 44%! I will
read few books from the reading list that I haven't already, but
that's just about it.
Perhaps I should take up sudoku or some other mental excercise... How
does one improve analytical skills anyway? ;-)
-- Marko CCIE #18427
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