In Brad Reese's Cisco Subnet blog , Robert Williams of CertGuard commented on the article about my recertification: I'm sure many "professionals" in his position would have opted to take the easy road and just "study to pass"... There are a bunch of 'study guides'...

Cisco announced the Cisco Certified Design Expert today. This is an excellent program that extends their certification programs. The Design Expert program is more about understanding network designs than about the nitty-gritty of network operations, which is where the CCIE applies. Cisco's press...

I’m studying for my CCIE recertification and was reading up on Rapid Spanning Tree (RSTP) operation. Cisco has a really nice white paper on its operation, with a lot of good pictures and excellent description of how it works and how it interoperates with the older 802.1d STP protocol: Understanding Rapid...