Re: CCIE re-certification - suspension

Learning credits don't devalue the cert any more than a written test that
can be Test Kinged. Ever taken the CISSP? It's one that can't be Test Kinged
(not today, because it's proctored), extremely valuable (100k+ jobs), and
they do learning credits. The CISSP was brutal for a written exam. So does
the Certified Public Accountant (CPA), and numerous other non IT based
certs. Continuing learning ensures that people do have to do something other
than cheat, if the organization does it right. I'd much rather be forced to
write a Cisco book review on a relevant CCIE book than retake the written
which offers nothing new year after year. Should a laywer be forced to
retake the bar every couple years? There are a few ways to skin a cat.

I'm all for labbing every 2 years, heck, that might raise my salary by 200k
because there would be so few CCIEs. Outside of that unlikely hypothetical
happening, it would make the certification unsustainable to most people, and
lessen the power of the Cisco brand. Then we could all be Juniper paper
tigers instead :)

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Stephen Robinson <stephen.robinson_at_qtzl.com
> wrote:

> Yeah lets devalue the certification and do learning credits like
> real-estate. I think they should require the lab every 2 years to really
> be
> sure a ccie is a ccie (not a paper tiger)
>
>
> > From: Networking Dude <ccie_at_routefilter.com>
> > Reply-To: Networking Dude <ccie_at_routefilter.com>
> > Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:23:07 -0700
> > To: David Prall <dcp_at_dcptech.com>
> > Cc: group-study <ccielab_at_groupstudy.com>
> > Subject: Re: CCIE re-certification - suspension
> >
> > Bummer, I'm tired of recerting :) Cisco really needs to man up and do
> some
> > sort of continuing learning education credits instead of recerts.
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 5:07 PM, David Prall <dcp_at_dcptech.com> wrote:
> >
> >> No it just adds 2 years on to your recert/certification date. So you'll
> >> have
> >> 18 months till your next, and I'd recommend a couple of weeks till your
> >> next.
> >>
> >> --
> >> http://dcp.dcptech.com
> >>
> >>
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> >>> Networking Dude
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 7:53 PM
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> >>> Subject: CCIE re-certification - suspension
> >>>
> >>> If you wait until 6 months into suspension to re-certify, does it then
> >>> push
> >>> your re-certification date two years from that point?
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