On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, James wrote:
In my Cisco classes, I learned a lot about routers and networking as whole, even more than I knew prior. Real world applications, like recovering from a lost enable password (You would not believe how many people configure a router then "forget" the enable password) are taught.
How do you recover a password on a Juniper router? I think the CCIE and cisco training is wonderful. I took the CCIE lab and passed configuring all sorts of protocols like X.25, DECNET, and LAT which aren't included in the lab anymore. It is very good at teaching and testing vendor knowledge, like recovering a lost password. I just don't understand how a having a CCIE is related to operating a Juniper network. Neither Juniper nor Cisco gives credit for certification by the other. If you want to skip the first level support, you need that specific vendor's certification. Both certifications are designed so you must know the specific vendor's equipment in order to pass. If you have a Juniper backbone I would expected a HR department require a Juniper Certified Internet Expert. Do so few Juniper Certified Internet Experts exist that companies are forced to hire CCIE's instead of JCIE's? Would I be better getting a JCIE because there are rarer? I noticed several CCIE's rising to defend their certification, but not a single JCIE.