From: Marko Milivojevic (markom@markom.info)
Date: Sun Dec 28 2008 - 17:49:01 ARST
I "love" when Fortune x00 comes into discussion as a factor that needs
to be considered. It would appear that those are the only important
companies in the networking world, regardless of the fact that there
are at least 20 million other companies in the world that need some
sort of a network. If we used the same logic, world wouldn't need more
than x00 CCIE's. Yet, somehow, we do.
Same applies for network design. There are small companies that do big
things. There are big companies that do small things. They all need
different networks and different approaches to their way of business
Let us not forget the first lesson from CCDA (btw. I highly recommend
everyone to take that exam - in fact, I would make it prerequisite for
any other cert): networks are there to support business, not the other
way round. Unless on understands the business the company is in, one
cannot properly design h network to support it. Unfortunately, many of
us who try to understand this logic are met with "expert" who don't.
There are many of us on this list with various levels of experience
and knowledge. Some are good at putting those into words and others
are just passive readers. There are also some trolls (like the author
of the text you are reading now ;-) ). Nothing we see in this mailing
list from anyone is true proof of our knowledge and experience.
Granted, instructors have vast experience on CCIE subject, but that's
no proof of their real-life effectiveness. We must also forget, that
it doesn't proof anything otherwise. We don't know anything about
their private contracts and consulting work they may or may not
perform.
I would we very cautious calling up on anyone from this list and
telling them that they don't have "it" to pass one exam. Especially so
if haven't seen the exam in question. Which brings me back to the
subject of CCDE.
CCDE is supposed to be everything Darby so nicely summed up. Fantastic
summary. I would agree 100% with the content of that blueprint,
only... CCDE ain't all that. 41 of who have seen the beta in all it's
glory came out from it bemused. Well, at least 1 out those 41 did. The
exam wasn't what I expected. It didn't test my analytical skills at
the level I expected it to do so, it didn't allow me to elaborate on
the solutions I wanted to implement, it didn't follow my "advice" and
my solutions. It didn't test my design skills, it tested my... I don't
really know what... general understanding of networking concepts in
some weird and unusual way.
-- Marko CCIE #18427 (SP) My network blog: http://cisco.markom.info/Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
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