From: Wes Stevens (wrsteve33-gsccie@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Nov 04 2008 - 23:55:54 ARST
I was told by a knowledable source that the pass rate at the bejing lab was up
to 90% before they implemented the prelab questionaire/interview. The
interview dropped it back to the 20% range. That is not a 'preceived
misconception' that is a real problem. I know that Cisco is working on it, but
some of the damage is done.
________________________________
From: Darby
Weaver <ccie.weaver@gmail.com>
To: Wes Stevens <wrsteve33-gsccie@yahoo.com>
Cc: Brad Ellis <brad@ccbootcamp.com>; Pamela Pinero <pampinero@gmail.com>;
Cisco certification <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 4, 2008
7:09:15 PM
Subject: Re: CCDE Study Materials
Rumor Control:
The CCIE RS Lab
is already in the process of changing... to counter any perceived
misconceptions about those who just memorize the lab... or are thought to.
Something about... all CCIE needing to be Re-Lab Certified or something like
that.
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Wes Stevens
<wrsteve33-gsccie@yahoo.com> wrote:
One of the nice things on this exam is
that bootcamps IMHO will not do you much good. You are going to have a lot of
experience and do a fair amount of studying on the parts that you don't deal
with every day.
Between the bootcamps and the braindumping that is so
prevelent in some part of the world, the CCIE is really going down hill as
witnessed by the explosion in the numbers. I hope that the fact that this exam
changes the content completely each time it is given will protect it from the
braindumps.
----- Original Message ----
From: Brad Ellis
<brad@ccbootcamp.com>
To: Pamela Pinero <pampinero@gmail.com>; Cisco
certification <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 4, 2008 6:00:30
PM
Subject: RE: CCDE Study Materials
Pamela,
Hi! Those list of books are
pretty good. The most effective book on the
list is the one by Russ White,
Optimal Routing Design; he is one of the
CCDE SME's (subject matter experts).
The link to the Cisco press book:
http://www.ciscopress.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=1587051877
We do have a
CCDE written study guide that is in the process of being
updated and is about
50% of the way there.
If you are looking for instructor led training for
CCDE, we submitted
our CCDE written boot camp materials to Cisco a few months
ago, and got
the "stamp of approval" on our content just recently. Per Cisco,
we are
the only Cisco approved CCDE training vendor in the world. They have
not
reviewed anyone else's content. We are in the process of updating our
website to reflect the new approved CCDE training course. The website
should
be updated within the next couple days:
http://www.ccbootcamp.com/instructor-led-training/ccde.html
Feel free and
email me offlist and I will let you know when the CCDE
written study guide is
finished with the update.
thanks,
Brad Ellis
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30482
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CCBOOTCAMP - A Cisco Sponsored Organization (SO)
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-----Original
Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On
Behalf Of
Pamela Pinero
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 2:14 PM
To: 'Cisco
certification'
Subject: CCDE Study Materials
Team, I am thinking of changing
from my CCIE pursuit to CCDE. I went
through
Cisco's website, found a list of
recommended reading:
http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/ccde/booklist.html
But I was
really
wanting some more concise information since there are so many
books to
read.
What is everyone using to study for the first exam? Are you
reading all
of
those books? Is there an easier way to study?
Blogs and
organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
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