>Dear Friends
>I am a CCNA , how could I become a CCSI(or CCAI) ?, I have heard that there
>is a fast track program to convert to CCSI(or CCAI) , Please inform me if
>anybody has any info.
>Thanks in advance
>Suranjith CCNA
Assume the Certification Fairy has waved her magic wand and made you a CCSI.
For whom would you work? Even if you were a CCSI, how would you get
legal access to official Cisco training materials unless you worked
for a training partner?
For all practical purposes, CCSI certification, as well as certain
reseller certification, belongs to the sponsoring organization, not
the individual. If I were to return to giving Cisco courses, having
been a very early CCSI (1993), I still would need a sponsor to send
in the paperwork and pay an activation fee.
Of course, you could teach courses that aren't Cisco-written for a
training organization that writes its own material. But such a
company can't have CCSIs.
CCSI has changed over the years. When I got it, and in fact was
subcontracting to Cisco, I went through a good three weeks of
questioning, proctored teaching, etc. My proctor rode me hard --
luckily he still feels guilty about stopping me from teaching one day
when he said I wasn't focused, and I called him from the cardiac care
unit the next morning (heart problems not caused by teaching, but
certainly affecting my performance).
The level of technical knowledge back then, in my opinion, was quite
comparable to the CCIE, and, indeed, there were rumors that CCSI's
who were certified in 1994 and earlier would be "grandfathered" as
CCIE's. Indeed, it was far tougher than the CCIE written -- I would
sit in front of several instructors and explain protocols in depth.
Luckily, since I had a background in protocol development and they
were former SE's and CE's, it turned out that I was stronger in many
protocols than they were. The immediate response, then, was to pull
in all the instructors they could find and tell me to start lecturing
them on nuances of OSI addressing and the updated reference model.
Since I do have involvement in commercial certification training
(CertZone), I have made a recent decision that it's really a bad idea
for me to actually get CCIE-certified. My reason would not apply to
most people -- I can't get accused of violating the NDA for a lab I
haven't actually seen. At the same time, I know the technologies well
enough to get people to the lab level -- most professional sports
coaches are not qualified to be starting players.
Also, in my "day job," I'm a product researcher and developer on next
generation routers, and a CCIE really wouldn't prove much to my
management.
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