CCIE

[SupremeSpod]

They'll be listed on the Cisco Gravy Train Webtulipe...

Spod.

[snaw]

Interesting, that's why I asked. Always thought the whole point of the ticket was to prove your worth. To be told to practically ignore it didn't make sense to me. And are you saying there are 39 in the region; how do you know?

It's on Cisco's website - you can verify numbers in each region/country and verify individuals Cert numbers (No pretending).

Forgot this bit: It cost £2k for a one-week CCNA bootcamp five years ago in UK. When I checked with Koenig in India recently about renewing, and including MCSE, it's about £2.5k for seven weeks tuition and exams. And that included the food and accommodation.

Bootcamps can work with multiple choice type exams, with CCIE it can help prepare for the lab experience by brushing off the rough edges. But you simply can't go through a CCIE without having a ton of experience combined with at least 6 months of hard hands on time practicing configuration scenario after scenario.

I'm sure its possible for someone to get it without having loads of experience but I'm also sure that would at least double, if not treble the hands on lab time needed. It is delibaretly designed to be as hard as possible.

It doesn't test on every day stufff but instead on twisted combinations of technologies that you can only pass because you understand exactly, down to an in depth packet level how they work. And no partial marks, it's all or nothing on a section so if you get it 90% correct you score zero.