Hi Guys,
I totally agree with Michael (specially in the "you aren't HIGH STAKES" part), Ronald, Brian and EtherMAN...
Excuse me, but I think could be useful put things in perspective (my personal view):
As we already discussed in some meetings (LATAM PAC included): WE AREN'T COCA-COLA (or COKE, whatever)... We maybe some kind of COCA-COLA-WANNABE, but WE ARE NOT COCA-COLA!
If we are an Ginger-Ale-like, we need to act like Ginger-Ale, and work hard to be a COCA-COLA, but one step at a time... We are at the "Gartner's Leaders Magic-Quadrant", but remember: Despite all the efforts, we are light-years behind the COCA-COLA champion (not talking about tech, but market).
The online exams are absolutely overrated and overpriced... Can't really assess the engineer knowledge, too expensive and now with more useless "requisites"...
As I said in other opportunities, we have MUCH to improve in our training program (personally I've achieved the former Enterasys ECA cert, and passed all the trainings and exams, so I could feel what it really is) and it's not enough to allow someone to "sit at the pilot's seat"... Field experience and LOTS of research, reading, hands-on are requided to someone could be really callled "Network Engineer" or something like this.
Best regards,
-Leo