CCIE Voice and CCIE Data Center Updates from Cisco Live!

!%Cisco Live! 2011!, !V Future of CCIE Voice, Data Center and Overall CCIE
Program by Mark Snow, CCIE #14073

Highlights

I!&ll jot down some very simple, high-level topics that were discussed
during our conversation, and then unpack them in more detail in the
following section.

* Upcoming changes to every CCIE Lab Exam
* Protecting the integrity of the CCIE certification
* Robust, matured results-based grading engine
* Heuristic logic embedded into task wording
* Accuracy and detail of lab score reports
* Cisco!&s CCIE Lab Delivery System and virtualization for mobile labs
* No re-reads

* CCIE Voice
* Next blueprint version expectation
* Topics for current and next blueprint versions

* CCIE Data Center
* CCIE Storage grows up

* Reason behind Cisco.com CCIE Statistics web page being removed

Read more at http://goo.gl/sj2CZ

Also I'll be making a blog post over the weekend covering the CCIE R&S
Program and CCDE Program. After talking one-on-one with the CCIE R&S
Program Manager and the head of the entire CCIE Program I'm really excited
about the direction of the CCIE program along with their plans for the
future. Over the years I haven't agreed with some things the CCIE program
has done but I have to say I didn't hear one single thing this year I
would disagree with. Lastly after spending nearly an hour talking with
the developer of the CCDE Practical Exam and the CCDE Program Manager I've
been convinced to take the CCDE Practical ;-) Now Mark Snow will have the
jump on me preparing for the CCIE Data Center but there are rumors of a
CCDE Data Center so I might be able to kill two birds with one stone.

Good Luck!

Brian Dennis, CCIEx5 #2210 (R&S/ISP-Dial/Security/SP/Voice)
bdennis_at_ine.com

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Received on Thu Jul 14 2011 - 19:25:54 ART