Today I was in the CCIE quarterly call there are a could of noteworthy points.

Core Knowledge waiver seen as an unfair advantage and as such will be eliminated on May the 10th, the extra 30 mins will be allocated to the configuration section. They also mentioned that the skills they were looking for in the core knowledge section are covered in the troubleshooting section. Additionally many candidates need the extra time, particularly the non english speaking ones.

They were also plugging the 360 program and showed a couple of stats, if you get rid of the rubbish its interesting to see the average attempts between the 360 program and outside of that.

The mobile testing centers are working out ways to move forward this and the mobile testing locations will expand, and this will be in a similar way to how the CCDE is deployed.

There was an interesting comment from Fred Weiller – “Dynamips is neither recommended to support and it enables infringement on the IOS licence”, but they are going to be using some virtualistion technologies to make studying more cost effective & accessible.

That’s about it, off topic I am scheduling in for just over 3 months so am quite glad they didn’t announce any big changes like IOS 15.0 Also any rumours about version 5.0 are false, but there is nothing on the development plan for that.