From: Darby Weaver (ccie.weaver@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Dec 27 2008 - 22:30:15 ARST
Anyone remember how many illustrious luminaries passed the first demo rounds
of the present 1-Day CCIE Lab the first time around when offered by Cisco?
Design Best Practices are like seasons in the wind sometimes. What was
great a few years ago is discarded for newer technologies. Things change.
How deep does the CCDE go?
The CCDE Practical Exam is designed to assess a candidate's ability to
perform the following tasks:
Gather, clarify, and analyse existing and new network requirements
- Identify requirements and determine how they shape the purpose and
expectations of a given network,
- Demonstrate the ability to gather and validate information about a given
network.
Develop network designs to meet functional specifications
- Choose the correct technology to resolve a specific network design
problem.
- Create a network design that minimizes or eliminates negative impact on
the existing network and services.
- Create a network design that is scalable.
- Create a network design that is elegant and scalable.
- Create a network design that is resilient.
Develop a plan to implement network design changes
- Evaluate the impact of the implementation options.
- Develop contingency plans for network restoration.
Convey design decisions and rationale
- Justify network design choices based on functional specifications.
- Justify technology choices based on technical requirements.
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Hmmm...
Sounds like my day to day job task list all the way down to the change
control requirements, impact, backout plan, an restoration planning (it
didn't explicitly mention testing plans).
Justification? Wow! That can mean a lot of things to a lot of people.
Based on what I read, I do not doubt that every CCIE ought to be able to
handle the technical specifications of this exam.
However, based on what I read I think there are a lot of choices for any
given design that can influecenced by circumstances, budget, operational
requirements, etc.
Overall, I'd say I've not necessarily seen all of the skills to fulfill
these requirements met by every CCIE on this forum, despite holding 1 or
more CCIEs and despite being an active CCIE instructor.
So it might be very interesting to see who makes the cut.
Configuring a device is one thing, finesse is quite another. In both cases
they may or may not work properly as "designed".
I recall the CCDA and CCDP being two very intricate exams, relatively
speaking.
I imagine this one is going to be quite interesting too.
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Marko Milivojevic <markom@markom.info>wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 22:53, Huan Pham <pnhuan@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Is that the first CCDE number?
> >
> > I do not think that the CCDE format (8 digits, starting with the year,
> e.g.
> > CCDE #20080001)
> > is cool. It's too long to fit nicely in a business card. In addition,
> Cisco
> > is too confident that the last 4 digit is enough for all people who
> achieve
> > that certification within a year :-))
> >
> > Good luck to all who are awaiting for the postman.
>
> Well, if he was lying to us on CLN, I was lying to you here :-)
>
> Personally, I also think that "impersonal" CCIE format is better, but
> we knew that something like this was probably coming up for CCDE.
> Creators repeated their wish to convey the information on when the
> cert was achieved on several occasions.
>
> So far that's the only successful report I have seen online. I'm sure
> that at least few of the people who participated in beta are not
> following CLN or this mailing list and that one or two "passes" may go
> unannounced. It would be really nice to get that info, because that
> could give us the initial "pass rate" for CCDE :-). So far, it's
> miserable at best.
>
> Again, good luck to the rest of us who are waiting.
>
> P.S. Mihai, I believe you are in for a pleasant surprise!
>
> --
> Marko
> CCIE #18427 (SP)
> My network blog: http://cisco.markom.info/
>
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