I disagree. I'm working towards the CCIE, and I want it to be hard. I
want to have to work for it. The last CCNP exam I took was the
Support/Troubleshooting exam, and I wanted my money back. The couple of
hours I put into studying for it were nothing but wasted time.
In any line of work, supply and demand rule the market. The more IE's
there are out there, the less they'll be making. Not only that, but we
lowly CCNP's and CCDP's can probably expect even less. You point out
that there are way more doctors, lawyers, etc... well, there's more of a
demand for doctors and lawyers. It's a simple comparison: ask yourself
how many people in a given population get sick or decide to sue someone,
and compare that to the number of people who need a network designed.
What's more, the easier any cert exam is to obtain, the worse its
reputation becomes; just ask Microsoft. It'll be years before the MCSE
is a respected certification again... why? Because it was too easy to
get. Everyone's got a story about an MCSE who talked big but couldn't
edit an LMHosts file, or couldn't set up a trust relationship, or
couldn't install a NIC. If the IE truly does get easier, how long will
it be before everyone has a similar story about a CCIE?I for one hope
Cisco keeps the lab challenging... I want the IE, but I want to work for
it.
Hal Logan
Network Specialist / Adjunct Faculty
Computing and Engineering Technology
Manatee Community College
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marshal Schoener [mailto:mschoener@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 3:30 PM
> To: jobs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Is the CCIE really worth it??? [3:3485]
>
>
> What is funny is that people are concerned with the
> possibility of 5 digit
> amounts of CCIEs at all.
> Considering there are way more doctors, lawyers, salesman,
> brokers, etc etc
> etc etc etc in just about every small city than there are
> CCIEs world wide,
> it doesn't seem something very logical to worry about.
> In fact, to a certain degree it is better off to have more
> than there are
> now for sales-marketing reasons...
> Another thing is that just because the format changes,
> doesn't mean the test
> is going to become easier. It may in fact become harder...
>
> For those of you that are really worried about this (which I
> honestly find
> hard to imagine) why don't you look into the specializations.
>
> Regards,
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