From: Nate Cielieska (ncielieska@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Oct 09 2008 - 10:18:38 ART
All,
I just wanted to send a quick email to give some perspective a month or two
after i passed the exam. I will be honest, after your CCIE the last thing
you want to do is study.. i took about a month off but i take once a week to
do a IE core lab or once every two weeks go through one of Narbik's
workbooks (I will be doing SP or Security after Jan.1) . In my travels i
have been able to interview some pretty strong IE's and regretably.. some
weak ones. The real differentiator that i have been able to find is
maintenance. I think this is one of the reasons why guys with 1xCCIE (ie
Bruce Caslow) have such great reputations in the network community and some
people with multiple IE's are not trusted because the IE became a focus on
what i'm doing now, and everything else slip (including a non solidified
understanding of content in an earlier IE). The CCIE is not a destination,
it is an affirmation of your skills @ a snapshot in time. Since i have
passed the CCIE i feel that i have a responsibility to the network community
(and my employer) to maintain the skills that are to do with Routing and
Switching, if i feel strong enough that i am @ a CCIE level verbatim with
those technologies, i will consider another one. I think that mindset after
the exam maintains the integrity of the certification to which we have all
worked so hard.
Just wanted to throw some perspective from someone a little bit after they
passed.
Regards,
Nate
CCIE #21955
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