From: Darby Weaver (ccie.weaver@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 14 2009 - 19:14:27 ARST
It's about time.
The email is no hoax and it is real.
The open-ended questions for all tracks. - SUPER-DUPER!!!
Let's see how many CCIE's are made in February?
My guess is the number goes down significantly. Any takers? I think I'm
goign to run a betting pool on this one.
So many people took the short road. Now that road has a ver sharp fork in
the middle.
Now this kills the problem of "memorization" the proctors spoke of on my
last trip to th magical kingdom.
Yes it suck for those who can't speak English and take the exam (I kinda
wondered what happens on TAC Support calls from these CCIE's, but hey that's
just me).
Let's face it a lot of people tried to take the short road and about like 90
days worth of poor souls who sought to take the fast-track to CCIE based on
whatever they believed was a real lab are now just going to fall into a
crevice and not be able t get their money back.
Ouch!
The number of 1st timers will drop during this period.
It's kinda like what happens when the first wave has to go and dive into the
land mines tor on the barbed wire so the rest can crawl over.
Sucks to be one of the sacraficial lambs.
Wait...
This means since it is verbal - it can change without notice too...
Kinda kewl and interesting but how would we know since we are all honoring
the NDA anyway.
Hah!
Love this stuff.
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Look the guys who I know who were CCIE's when they went to take their labs -
were CCIE's whether or not they had the paper.
Those other guys... well they had to wait a while after they passed the
CCIE Lab to "be" CCIE's and some may never be. Sorry it's how the cookie
crumbles.
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Now if they'll just bring back the hands-on component - betcha that would
break some hearts... Hah!
My opinion: It's about time.
Think of this "those gunmen" won't even be able to touch a rack if this is
true.
Interesting. It's kind of like the old day where you needed "X amount of
Points" to get to Day-2.
Technically Cisco did give some people about 6 months to prep for this kind
of verbal review. So it's been out there.
I just remember the recent article that said 11 times the number of CCIE's
from outside the USA. We only had 8 that month. Which is probably
consistent with other months since the program started.
Most of the people I know of in the US tend to spend considerable amounts of
time in prep (years) and I'm not sure this is true everywhere.
Think of this: If the number of people wanting to take a lab exam drops
from say 16 per day any site to like 1-2 per day, then Cisco might change
this program since it needs CCIE's.
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