Re: OT - VSS and CCIE 4.0

Piotr,

Could you imagine if Cisco gives students something like IOU that can
emulate the 6500s, IOS XR and etc.....I would LOVE to write some serious
labs on few 6500s, and i am sure that the other vendors will do the same;
that will make every CCIE more knowledgable.

Do you remember when we ONLY had two switches? Look at the switching labs
now, we have 4 of them, look at the quality of the switching labs. How could
you compare them to the time when we ONLY had two of them. Can you imagine
how good we are all going to get? That is where i am going with this. What
is the use of a CCIE cert if it's easy as CCNA or MCSE? Don't you guys want
to protect your investment?

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Piotr Malarski
<piotr.malarski.99_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> A CCNP test should have 4 3560s. ?
>
> So you basically propose to rename current CCIE to CCNP and making new
> CCIE as popular as Architect cert. I have no problem with that :)
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Narbik Kocharians <narbikk_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I do agree with Shahid, but if it was up to me, the following is what I
> > would recommend:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 1. *The written exam should match the R&S blueprint*; it should be the
> > theory part of the lab. I believe that this will keep every one honest
> and
> > knowledgeable; because a CCIE candidate will know that this section is
> the
> > most important aspect of this cert; besides the fact that they have to
> keep
> > on referring back to that information when they have difficulty
> > understanding a given configuration.
> >
> >
> >
> > 2. *Remove some of the 3560 switches, and add 6500s*, this can be either
> 2
> > of each, or any combination. This can somewhat emulate the real world.
> There
> > are many differences between the two boxes. No matter where you go these
> > days, you will see these boxes. Could you imagine how well you would know
> > what s used out there? Your confidence level will be different.
> >
> > A CCNP test should have 4 3560s.
> >
> >
> >
> > 3. *Remove the written test for re-certification*, and instead add a
> > mandatory lab every 5 years, this will keep us all at our BEST. Maybe
> allow
> > three attempts before revoking the CCIE number.
> >
> >
> >
> > 4. *Go back to the days that the topology and the questions were given to
> us
> > on paper*. I do not buy the fact that this saves trees and etc etc,
> >
> >
> >
> > 5. *Give CCIEs something like a License that has the candidates picture*,
> i
> > see a lot of people faking a lot of people, believe it or not in few
> > occasions i was teaching two different classes in two different parts of
> the
> > world all at the same time, and one of us was horrible.
> >
> >
> > 6. *I like to see the "two day" lab back again*. Could you
> > imagine..........8 hours of configuration on day one, and another 8 hours
> of
> > TS on day two; the TS should NOT have anything to do with what you
> > configured on day one. Increase the price of the test to accommodate this
> > change. Wouldn t that be exciting?
> >
> > Maybe i am going crazy, i have been writing labs all day........i am
> going
> > to sleep.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Shahid Ansari <shahid1357_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
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