Re: OT: Cisco Certified Architect

Hmm....

Based on the rumbings going around a lot of people are asking themselves if
they even need to worry with the CCIE now that the CCA has surfaced as an
option.

Not my words just things people have conveyed.

Personally the CCA is still a twinkle in someone's eye.

Did the CCIE actually get any easier to attain? Probably not.

Has the CCDE over-ran its own course yet? Probably not - Last look there
were 15, and half of those numbers belonged to the development team from
Cisco.

So while some people may think the CCIE has become devalued because it now
has numbers as high as 24,000, we have to ask some real questions:

1. What is the number of active CCIE's total?

2. How many are there per state, region, or even country?

3. How many CCIE's does a CCIE really have to compete with in his or her
world for a job or project at any given time?

The answer to all three questions:

Not that many.

I don't think the CCIE has played out yet. I don't think it is a lot easier
to attain in terms of actual work required or in the knowledge level
expected.

Yes - I do think a lot of the current CCIE's took shortcuts and apparently
so do the proctors who spoke with me on the subject. But hey - I'm not in
China and so 90% of those people in that demographic who fit that MO are not
my comptetition for a job anytime soon.

In the USA, my area, the numbers have not really exploded. They have...
maintained at best and are quite modest by comparison.

So the numbers are not quite out on the CCA yet.

They are out on the CCIE and it is probably the better of the two to still
bank on.

While there are alot of CCIE materials available today, there still leave
something to be desired, else why would people, advertise, and sell
materials that cost more than the legitimate study aids and be able to keep
doing it? Common "cents" prevails.

The truth is people who are working hard and harder to earn a CCIE will
always be in demand, and those other folks will still be unemployed looking
for the next best thing.

That's just the way of the world.

But hey there is a whole market of resellers who need a fresh new "food
supply" to fuel the "ecosystem".

By the way - a quality engineer will still be a quality engineer - with or
without a CCIE, whether there are 1000 CCIE's or 100,000 CCIE's.

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Received on Mon Jul 20 2009 - 11:21:33 ART