From: Scott Morris (smorris@internetworkexpert.com)
Date: Sat Jul 19 2008 - 16:52:55 ART
I am thinking that there should be online chess, checkers, reversi/go, or
whatever game tournaments against Russ, Bruce and those guys who created the
CCDE. THAT is how we understand how they think. :)
Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Marko Milivojevic
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 3:23 PM
To: GS CCIE-Lab
Subject: Re: CCDE Practical Exam
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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