| 10 Years as a Cisco CCIE |
 The Cisco CCIE certification was launched in 1993 and is widely accepted as the most difficult – yet most desired – certification in the industry. This year, Applied Trust's Trent R. Hein became one of only 3 14 people in the world to hold Cisco's highest level of certification for 10 consecutive years. Cisco has released a special certification logo to mark the achievement of individuals having “CCIE- 10” status.Although the Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) certification is little known outside of the IT industry, the certifiļ¼cation commands the highest level of respect among network engineering peers – rightly so, given the degree of difficulty in obtaining it. According to Cisco, approximately 12,000 people take the written exam each year and 8,000 people take the lab exam; the average number of times it takes to pass the lab exam is 2.5.The overall pass rate over the 13-year life of the program is 26%.To put this in perspective, the overall pass rate of the California bar exam, which traditionally has the lowest bar pass rate in the United States, was 48% over that same time period. Applied Trust believes that certification is important not only for our customers' peace of mind, but also for delivering the highest possible level of service. |
