Plea to Cisco: ‘CCIE routing and switching written exam needs to be fixed’

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Network World Data Center Alert Jul 26, 2016 Plea to Cisco: 'CCIE routing and switching written exam needs to be fixed' Tom Hollingsworth, author of a popular blog called "The Networking Nerd," used that forum last week – smack in the middle of Cisco's annual user conference -- to issue a blistering critique of the CCIE routing and switching written exam. 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