RE: CCIE lab fee raised!

I don't mind the price hike.
I didn't like the approach though - I got a mail on August first saying that
all exams processed after August first would be at the new price.

That's life I guess!
On Aug 2, 2011 9:08 PM, "John Pelletier" <john.pelletier_at_altima-group.com>
wrote:
> Once it is done via Peason Vue will they be selling the actual labs to
> testking etc as they do now? Can you imagine the lab will be as worthless
> as an MCSE and countless other vendor certs.
>
> --- On Tue, 8/2/11, Brad Ellis <brad_at_ccbootcamp.com> wrote:
>
> From: Brad Ellis <brad_at_ccbootcamp.com>
> Subject: RE: CCIE lab fee raised!
> To: "Daniel Dib" <daniel.dib_at_reaper.nu>, "Michael Kiefer"
> <mjkiefer_at_gmail.com>
> Cc: "Jay McMickle" <jay.mcmickle_at_yahoo.com>, "Group Study"
> <ccielab_at_groupstudy.com>
> Date: Tuesday, August 2, 2011, 1:16 PM
>
> I'd venture to guess that the general plan is to have the entire R&S run
> on IOU...that is the direction Cisco is heading...it makes economies of
> scale much easier and also enables Cisco to utilize the Pearson Vue
> professional testing centers to deliver the CCIE Lab exam...yeah...it's
> coming! :)
>
> thanks,
> Brad Ellis
> CCIE#5796 (R&S / Security)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Dib [mailto:daniel.dib_at_reaper.nu]
> Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 10:25 PM
> To: Brad Ellis; 'Michael Kiefer'
> Cc: 'Jay McMickle'; 'Group Study'
> Subject: RE: CCIE lab fee raised!
>
> On ti, aug 02, 2011 at 00:17:40, Brad Ellis wrote:
>> Cc: Jay McMickle; Group Study
>> Subject: RE: CCIE lab fee raised!
>>
>> Yeah...I heard some rumors that they've made some continued progress
>> on catalyst switching software enhancements in IOU...i'd venture a
>> guess that the IOU upgrade has something to do with this...
>>
>> thanks,
>> Brad Ellis
>> CCIE#5796 (R&S / Security)
>> CCSI# 30482
>> CEO / President
>> CCBOOTCAMP
>> Email: brad_at_ccbootcamp.com
>> Toll Free: 877-654-2243
>> International: +1-702-968-5100
>> Skype: skype:ccbootcamp?call
>> FAX: +1-702-446-8012
>> Training And Remote Racks: http://www.ccbootcamp.com
>>
>
> Are they implementing IOU for config section also? IOU doesn't seem to
> do any hardware specific features like QoS so I don't see how they could
> run it on the config section unless they just let you type the commands
> like Packet Tracer and then give you an output without really doing
> anything on the backend.
>
> For those of you that recently took the lab was the TS section working
> OK?
> Since it is running IOU.
>
> /Daniel
>
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