There’s a big difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something

I used to do Cisco Academy training, but I always struggled with the questions provided. In many cases I disagreed with intellectual level of the questions asked, and also disputed some of the answers. For the practical side, it was wonderful, but from an academic point-of-view, it struggled greatly.

The content, too, struggled in any way to spark interest in what was — at the time (and still is) — an interesting area. For me, there was great magic behind switching and wireless systems, but the coverage of the content basically took away all the fun and interest away, and ended up with just a focus on just doing one thing on one system.

“What does WEP stand for?”, and for me the answer wasn’t “Wireless Equivalent Protocol”, but, “I really don’t care!”. But I couldn’t find that answer. I thus leave it to the mighty Richard Feynman to outline why knowing the name of something is not quite knowing something:

Another question from the tests was: