Re: Anyone Going for v4 lab in october?

I usually avoid such subjective discussions like they are a plague.
But since you "called me out" :-) - here is my 2 cents.

If I am in charge of hiring for a large Cisco installation, I am going
to start with the CCIE designation as the minimum requirement for any
type of high-level engineer position. Once I have a good group of CCIE
applicants, they will then face an oral examination as well as a
practical exam, which might be delivered on virtualized equipment,
ironically enough.

Common sense tells me that the above approach would be valid for a
long, long time to come. I believe without the CCIE, you are going to
miss a ton of opportunity.

On Oct 19, 2009, at 10:51 PM, babatunde sanda wrote:

> Virtualization. This is surely making the pursue discouraging. I
> have been
> studying for the lab since I passed my written in May this year and
> found
> after reading many forums this Saturday in-between labs that the
> CCIE will
> eventually become a commodity. This new style might just be making
> those
> postings true.
>
> I guess its time to really re-evaluate why certify amidst all the
> sacrifices
> that goes with it.
>
> I was recently in a Cisco security class and the instructor made a
> statement
> "It's not worth the time and expenses going for the CCIE" (this is a
> CCIE
> proctor that grades the exams). I didn't take it to heart though
> because
> the class it self was mostly GUI and he was also saying this is the
> way
> things will eventually be too. Being a CLI engineer I was super
> bored but
> still sat through anyways.
>
> Anthony Sequeira and team. I know you are in business to make money
> and I
> definitely am using your labs right now but candidly. Is it worth
> pursuing
> the CCIE any more except for person conviction?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Brad Ellis; Farrukh Haroon; Anthony Sequeira; Roy Waterman; Divin
> Mathew
> John; Anantha Subramanian Natarajan; Iwan Hoogendoorn; Cisco
> certification
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf
> Of
> Marko Milivojevic
> Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 1:33 PM
> To: Nathan Richie
> Cc: Brad Ellis; Farrukh Haroon; Anthony Sequeira; Roy Waterman;
> Divin Mathew
> John; Anantha Subramanian Natarajan; Iwan Hoogendoorn; Cisco
> certification
> Subject: Re: Anyone Going for v4 lab in october?
>
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 20:21, Nathan Richie <nathanr_at_boice.net>
> wrote:
>> So will that make me a Virtual-CCIE? :)
>
> Well, virtualization is *the* buzzword these days. So, I wouldn't be
> ashamed of it. Then again, most of CCIEs today are virtual ;-)
>
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