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By Vaughn Mickley


Some professions are simple to explain. Everybody knows what a dentist is, or a lawyer. However, some other groups are less understood and lumped together. As an example, computer people are generally put together in one, largely mysterious and misunderstood, group. They aren't all just a bunch of keyboard jockeys. There is actually a good deal of job variety among computer professionals.

Take a network engineer for example. They are the people who are responsible for keeping data flowing. That means everything from computer networks to phone networks. This computer professional maintains, designs, and implements the hardware and software that let one electronic device communicate with others. That includes the internet.

Looking in almost any medium sized or larger company, network engineers can be found with job titles like network administrator or network operations. Certain businesses that deal with a large amount of data (banks, universities, investment firms) have large numbers of them. The big shots of network engineering have titles like network architect or implementation engineer. Frequently, they are consultants.

It is probably the variety of specialties and their highly technical nature that cause computer professionals to be so misunderstood. For most positions in network engineering, an undergrad and graduate degree is just the beginning. Most continue evolving, and progressively more in depth, education for the balance of their careers in the form of professional certification programs.

They run the gamut from a certification gained by taking a fairly easy test to monster, marathon tests followed by demonstrations of skill, like rebuilding a sabotaged computer network by hand in a short period of time. There are even some new ones out there that are so advanced that no one has managed to achieve it yet, the Cisco Certified Network Architect. The most respected one in play at the moment for this specialty is the CCIE.

The test to get the CCIE is a multi phase process. To get started, there's a difficult written assessment that must be passed to progress to the lab exam. The lab exam is given in two parts. First off, the engineer has to design and configure an exceptionally high end internet backbone under time pressure. If they are successful, the candidate leaves that day. Within hours, instructors corrupt that newly developed device in every ingenious way possible. The next morning, the prospect returns and has a restricted stretch of time to mend each individual just fabricated problem.

In relation to income, certification with no work experience means very little. However, with work experience, those certifications can mean serious increases in take home pay. The CCIE can offer an additional thirty five thousand a year in an experienced network engineer.




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