Re: Three CCIE certification in 7 months!!!

On 2012-03-02 21:22, Narbik Kocharians wrote:

> Its cool to tell the world that you are a CCIE, but the big question is
> what are you going to do with it? OK, I am a doctor, now what?

I think that a CCIE will know a CCIE in first few sentences during
discussing over technical subject. For some of people you'll know that
the knowledge is rusty but it's there, for some - that the person
doesn't even know where to start searching for a clue. People will go
all buzzwords or silence (depending on the personality) when
hit with "how would PIM SSM behave here?" or "how much labels it
would take if we go with scenario A or scenario B?". The unfortunate
truth is, with time and lack of practice, your skills will fade anyway.

I have a pretty simple solution for it - work in an environment where
your friendly CCIEs will challenge you from time to time with a
question forcing you to think, not to mumble something under nose and
dissapear. I have such great opportunity, and while I'm a #15929 and
double - I bow before them.

The problem with a CCIE certification - pretty obvious one - is that
more and more people pass it using bootcamps and workbooks as an
cheat sheet. The direction to make it harder, complex and with more
number of different subscenarios seems to be the only way to kill that
monkey approach. Every new "generation" of CCIEs claim it's harder
and harder to get the number - but the complexity of the current
networks is growing, and the true virtue of CCIE is to make it all
at least look simple, and remove complexity where it's possible.

Narbik, looking forward to see you in Poland. They say the best
discussions take place either by the flipchart, or by the dinner. I hope
to retest that idea with you again - soon! :)

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