From: Darby Weaver (ccie.weaver@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Oct 10 2008 - 20:21:17 ART
The simple truth is most CCIE Candidates in the beginning are not
necessarily well-prepared for the CCIE Journey. And it takes a while to get
prepared. But if a candidate is currently working on a significant network,
naturally that candidate has a firm sense of pride and accomplishment.
However, if someone were to sit down with any given candidate and ask about
arp, spanning-tree, the route selection process aka route recursion, and
then go into the how a given route is selected or not selected for use in
the routing table, and how each routing protocol selects a Designated
Router, Feasible Successor, Successor, or how even things like split-horizon
works or poison reverse. Then if they were asked to explain the what the
differences between a physical interface, point-to-point interface, and
multipoint interface and the signifigance of each with respect to each
routing protocol....
Then we'd have about 60-70% less candidates taking a class just yet. Since
they would need to go back and learn these things. I'd venture to say that
probably 50% of the existing CCIE's today had trouble explaining in detail
how DHCP or Mail traveled in a network from a "Packet's Perspective" in the
beginning.
So it really is not about the quality of the vendors or their styles, I can
tell you quite firmly that the instructor's I've met in my classes were
quite well prepared. It is I who as a student was not as well prepared to
meet them when I did. I suspect many of us share the same story.
Let's face it the devil is in the details. How many CCNA, CCNP, even CCIE's
(aside from instructors and writers who may have these details down by now)
can break down and explain most every protocol on a whim? Not all, I can
assure you.
So the truth is if everyone waited until they were ready to absorb even
70-80% of a given bootcamp... our instructrors would likely be in another
line of work.
Careful what you wish for.
This very small group of people has had probably the single-most important
and positive effect on our lives than we can probably comprehend.
That sounds like a bold statement. But without these guys teaching us and
clearing things up for us day in and day out many of us... most of us would
not be where we are today and likely neither would our respective
companies.
So that is quite important in the total sum of things.
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