New CCIE R&S 4.0

[just2cool]

Did you guys hear about it? It's going to take place starting October 18th. There's a new troubleshooting section and "optimizing the network" section.

Written info: https://cisco.hosted.jivesoftware.com/docs/DOC-4374
Lab info: https://cisco.hosted.jivesoftware.com/docs/DOC-4375

(For those w/o CCOs, http://www.ccietalk.com/2009/05/05/ccie-rs-40-written-exam-blueprint and http://www.ccietalk.com/2009/05/05/ccie-rs-40-lab-blueprint)

Also, an interesting editorial: https://cisco.hosted.jivesoftware.com/docs/DOC-4888

I'm scheduled to take CCIE Written 3.0 sometime in June. Even if I pass, I don't know if I would feel comfortable rushing to take the matching 3.0 lab. Troubleshooting has always been one of my strong points, so maybe the new one won't be that bad (or at least I say that now )

 

[Vito_Corleone]

Read about it. I'm not ecstatic about the changes, but I think they are good for the cert.

 

[QHalo]

Yeah I read about this earlier this week. Sounds like the right thing to do IMHO, but I feel bad for those so close that may not be comfortable enough to take their labs before the change over.