Hi Mark, hi all,
I totally agree with you. I am currently a CCDP and as a pre-sales engineer,
I do not have the opportunity to maintain the equipment.
Some of the questions of the CCDP track were already sometimes painful for
me (like which show command to use), although I find a command is the best
summary of 2 pages theory, and I agree commands must be part of the exams.
I would like to upgrade my skills to CCIE (now that CCDP has been degraded,
one year ago it was the highest cert for design), but as I understand CCIE
lab is really 'speed' of config and troubleshooting.
I don't see how I can prepare that on top of my normal job responsabilities,
and there's even no way my company would build a lab with that equipement.
It's only at cisco that they could afford to dedicate all this equipment to
a lab.
Now CCIE lab design has been retired for some time... I guess it will be
hard for them to find candidates in other companies that Cisco!!
Rgds
Laurent
>From: "Mark Holloway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "Mark Holloway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: CCIE Design...too much?
>Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 07:24:14 -0800
>
>Looking at Cisco's requirements for all of their CCIE tracks, it looks like
>the CCIE Design Lab requires "the candidate to configure all of the devices
>included in the design."
>
>So not only do you design that proposed network, you must configure it too.
>For those of use who work in the pre-sales engineering field where the CCDA
>and CCDP made the most sense, I think this is going a little too steep for
>CCIE Design. I'm not opposed to learning how to configure equipment, but
>the list of equipment is literally impossible to build a home lab (Catalyst
>6500, 3500, 2900, PIX, Local Director, 7500, 7200, 4700, 3600, 2600, 2500,
>7830 Call Manager, and more). This is double the R/S Exam. Is it really
>realistic to expect someone who designs networks (as opposed to
>administering/troubleshooting) to know all of this? I'm assuming the
>required knowledge of this technology needs to be top-notch, like with the
>other CCIE exams.
>
>I always felt the design path was more geared toward pre-deployment and not
>post. Of course, some knowledge of the hands on is good, but in my job
>today I may sit with a client or a Data Engineer and go over some configs,
>but I don't maintain the equipment.
>
>Just my .02! Opinion appreciated..
>
>Regards,
>Mark
>
>
>
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