Cisco Tuesday rolled out Cisco 360 Learning Program for CCIE - Routing and Switching, a six-month 
program that incorporates e-learning and hands-on practice labs to accelerate expert-level competency. The program is designed to run head-on against third-party boot camps, which Cisco says are not up to par (you'll be able to read more about Cisco's thoughts on this in Network World's IT Careers & Training newsletter on Wednesday). The program will be made available through select authorized Cisco Learning Partners and consist of pre-assessments, six online classes covering topics such as IPv6, QoS, Frame Relay, Border Gateway Protocol and switching, instructor-led workshops, practice labs and mentoring. The courses start at $5,000 but can reach to double-digits for the mentorship features.
Cisco Subnet podcaster Ken Presti spoke to Cisco Director of Marketing for Learning@Cisco Fred Weiller about the program and you can access that podcast here.
Cisco hopes the program will increase the number of skilled individuals around the world, which needs to reach 3 million by 2012, according to Weiller, from today's 1 million.
It's great that Cisco is working to help make it easier and quicker for individuals to become CCIEs but does this mass approach cheapen the CCIE brand? Interestingly, the Cisco press release about this lists Bangalore, India alongside San Jose, Calif., in the date line. It's only a matter of time before CCIEs in India outnumber CCIEs in the United States.
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Most of the time is book study and practice
Cisco taking the time to develop a CCIE training program is interesting. I would imagine that the program would follow the Cisco Academy program for CCNA and CCNP.
Going to a CCIE Boot camp should be the last step in your studies for the test, Cisco sponsored or not. I spend most of my time reading and practicing what I just read in my own mini-labs. The boot camps were for review and to harden my understanding of the concepts that I had been reading and practicing in my own lab.
Most of the time is book study and practice, not lecture. With CCNA and CCNP: understand concept: dynamic routing: RIP command: router rip. Then you move onto the next topic. With the CCIE: why RIP? How does it redistribute into OSPF or BGP?
What is the RIP AD and how is it impacting your route tables? What is the question asking? Are you distributing the routes correctly? Are you protecting the network from rouge RIP commands? Should you be using filters and route-maps to distribute routes? These things come from experience built on extensive studying by authors who really know what happens if you don’t get it right. Now add redistribution, now add some stupid router trick and your routes go poof. Welcome to CCIE world.
To understand these answers you need to practice building labs, understand every command available for RIP. Understand what RIP broadcasts are doing when they are sent out. The list for a simple protocol is extensive. Now add the rest of the protocols that you must fully understand then square that for the test. Why, they have to work together.
This does not mean that Cisco won’t write a great program for the CCIE, but it will take time to get it right. The most popular boot camps are not the problem, the students are not prepared to attend the boot camps is the problem.
George Morton, Ph. D.
Dual CCIE 18532, Router/Switch & Security
moneymoneymoney
it's other way how to take more bucks from the network business cake imo
The Cisco 360 program isn't
The Cisco 360 program isn't cheap! In fact it's border-line insanely priced. Should be interesting to see how it will work in this economy. $20k for a training package? Ouch.
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