That one IS a good one. A buddy of mine has all the other Cisco certs, and can configure just about any router or switch in his sleep, but he's been preparing months for that one, it has him sweating. Very few actually pass that thing. But you definitely have to know what you are doing to get through it.

>The only way you can make the certification totally worthwhile is to look at how Cisco does it for their highest level (CCIE?). You actually have to go to Cisco and take the exam in a lab. They purposely break things that you then have to fix. You're score depends on the time it took and did you solve the problem. I've talked to a couple of people that have been through the exam and it was described as being just this side of hell. Something like 80% of the people fail the first attempt. Some would argue that the exam is too difficult. I would argue that it makes the cert mean something.
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