I saw a post earlier about a person
who wanted to find out how to get
the CCIE in three easy steps. The
answer that came back was “you can’t.”
And for someone who is on track to
that certification, I’m glad to hear
that! I’m tired of people being able
to read enough exam-cram books and
read through enough “brain dumps” to
pass certifications tests without any
true mastery of knowledge. I’ve talked
to several hiring managers at a major
computing company, and their response
to MCSEs was that they meant absolutly
nothing anymore. I would hate to see
the same thing happen with the CCIE.
Fortunatly, they have made such an
exaustive hands-on test that it won’t
happen any time soon. And let’s be
real honest, when you are forced with
the problem of a major network routing
issue that has caused your entire
eight thousand node network to blink off
the internet, you are going to want
someone who knows their way around the
Cisco CLI, not someone who will need to
“refresh their memory” on how to bring
up the help functions…
SO perhaps I’m just a bit brutish, but
I think that having the CCIE actually
mean something is more worthwhile to
everyone in the long run than making it
into another MCSE…
Michael.