Cisco Mulls Adding Verbal Interview To CCIE Exams

Julie188 writes "Here's a new idea to stop certification test-taking cheaters; Cisco is considering introducing a verbal interview portion to its CCIE lab exams across the world. Cisco confirmed that it is running a pilot in its exam lab in Beijing, China that involves candidates taking a 10-minute verbal interview as part of their lab exam. Cisco said that if the pilot is successful, the interview could be introduced as a requirement for CCIE Routing & Switching candidates worldwide. The company has been running the pilot since August."

Comments

Engrish?

[Gothmolly]

But won't this weed out the non-English speaking, book-memorizing, cheap-working brown people that Corporate America loves so dearly?

Re:Cisco should be careful

[Anonymous Coward]

I guess this means we'll have to deal with a few less punjabs on the end of tech support lines. Oh well.

Re:What about other certs?

[glitch23]

For the record I couldn't care less. I find my self wondering more and more each year why I am celebrating a holiday of a religion I don't even follow. (kids) We need a return to the root of our holidays. Christmas was a pagan year end celebration. Easter was a pagan holiday celebrating fertility. It fell in the spring as winter ended and new life sprouted. The Christians usurped these holidays as representing their beliefs and their christ.

I know at least 1 person who "celebrates" Christmas but not for the religious reasons which to me doesn't make any sense whatsoever but it does offend me. I guess to those people maybe Happy Holiday is just fine but to those who celebrate it for the right reasons it is offensive. Kwanzaa isn't a holiday and I can understand the Jewish people possibly being offended by most people saying Merry Christmas but most people celebrate Christmas compared to Hanukkah so the odds are in a person's favor of saying Merry Christmas to someone else and being correct. However the Jewish people have never complained; it is only the media and some corporations who are taking matters into their own hands to diminish Christmas with the excuse that others (point them out please.) are offended. Diversity is recognizing differences, not diminishing them to a common denominator by using Happy Holiday. Corporations and the media have no idea what diversity really is and therefore it is purely an excuse to remove recognition of Christmas.

People who don't celebrate anything can just ignore it all. Why should they care what it is called if they don't celebrate it anyway? They should be as offended with Happy Holiday as with Merry Christmas if they don't celebrate anything in the first place. Why should the Jews be offended with "Christmas tree" if they don't have a tree of their own in the first place? I don't hear anyone calling the Menorah a "candle holder" for fear it may offend Christians nor does anyone ever advertise to target Hanuakkah. I see Christmas commercials with trees and lights and presents but they never even mention Christmas. What is up with that? Purely an attempt to remove the idea of Christ to return it to original pagan traditions so they can still make money without acknowledging the Christian associations.