CCIE

Cisco CCIE History

Being a CCIE myself, I just love CCIE History. I read a great article over at NetworkWorld submitted by Brad Reese.

Here are some cool things I learned from the story:

• The CCIE was announced on September 27, 1993
• Now the very successful CEO of Cisco Systems, John Chambers was insturmental in getting the CCIE certification launched. Back then, Mr Chambers was a “merit vice president”.
• The very first CCIE number was 1024 and was assigned to the testing lab. They did not start the number at 1.
• Stuart Biggs (who designed the lab and wrote the test) was assigned CCIE# 1025
• The first non-Cisco employee to achieve the CCIE was Terry Slatterly, with CCIE# 1026.

You can read more about Terry and the history of the CCIe at Terry Slattery - the very first Cisco CCIE in history and at Terry’s Blog.

-David
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Would you “Rent” your certification?

I heard about a website that connects people who have certifications with Microsoft and Cisco resellers who need certified people, on the payroll, to achieve a certain level of reseller status.

How this works is - say that I sell Cisco equipment but I want larger discounts from Cisco (so I can make more profit when I sell it). To be a higher level of reseller (Silver, Gold, or whatever), you have to have a certain number of Cisco certified people on the payroll. For example, maybe you need 2 CCNA, 1 CCNP, and 1 CCIE.

Many up-and-coming resellers cannot afford to do this so the idea came that they could pay people who have these certs a flat monthy fee to register their cert # under the reseller’s name. Not a bad idea, I suppose, unless Cisco or Microsoft stop them.

And now an even better idea - www.rentacert.com

This site connects the people who have the cert with the resellers who want to “rent” it. The site makes a profit by taking a commission.

If you work for a company that is NOT a reseller but you have a cert, I suppose it would be nice to make some extra cash off of it and do nothing. It seems that both the renter and rentee would benefit but, I suppose the customer of that reseller looses out because the reseller really doesn’t have as much experience on hand as, perhaps, the other resellers at a similar level.

What do you think?

Would you rent your cert?

David Davis, CCIE

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