What is your collegue's CCIE number? With all due respect to our
CCIE's reading this thread, it's my understanding that the CCIE (and
CCNP) tests are harder now than they used to be. More VoIP,
wireless, virtualization, QoS, etc. All the harder stuff. I know
some CCIE's at Cisco that admit they couldn't pass it again, even with
a lot of study. I don't think holding a four-digit CCIE number has
the prestige it once used to, except of course as an indicator of
experience.
I have my CCNP and probably would have to re-study everything all over
again to pass all four tests, especially since they have changed so
much since I got it. I'm just saying CCIE is probably the same, so
you can't take one person's opinion that going straight to CCIE is a
valid course. It may be, but it might also be friggin hard. :)
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:02:54 -0700 (PDT), jcle <jmsprang@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>I have been a network engineer for 4 years now and I a recently passed
>my CCNA (should have taken this a long time ago) pretty effortlessly
>using wendell odom's offical exam cert guide. Anyways a respected
>colluege of mine says to go strait for the CCIE skipping the CCNP.
>Most of the stufff covered in the NP seems to be covered in wendell
>odoms CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Certification Guide, 3rd
>Edition. Anyways should I go straight for the IE? I like the cisco
>press books by odom and find them very usful.
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