Re: Question on CCNA and CCNP recertification

From: Leigh Harrison (ccileigh@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jun 26 2006 - 13:47:29 ART


Hey Mike,

I'm pretty sure that you get the the ccna and the ccnp "grandfathered",
i.e., given to you if you pass the lab. The thinking goes that if you
can pass the lab, then you can pass the others.

LH

Darby Weaver wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Do you still work for Cisco?
>
> I don't recall the CCIE Lab recertifying the lower
> certs. However, the CCIE Written does.
>
> My older certs CCNA/CCNP/CCDA/CCDP certs expired and I
> had to retake them to revalidate them since the window
> for the CCIE Written was a few days outside of my
> recertification window.
>
> I feel the frustration. So much that I'm going back
> and taking the CCDA and CCDP this week and I'll be
> taking a CCIE Written again (probably Security, but
> maybe RS, too) just in case to ensure all of my quals
> are on track.
>
> But it is strange that the lab does not have any
> bearing on the lower order certs...
>
> But then they are not prerequisites either...
>
>
>
> --- Mike Flanagan <mikenoc@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I checked an e-mail that I got from the Cisco
>> Career Certifications
>> Annual Program Statement and for valid
>> certifications it showed my
>> CCIE lab but my CCNA and CCNP showed under
>> previously earned
>> certifications. I looked at the valid through dates
>> and the CCNA and
>> each CCNP test has different valid through dates
>> untill the last CCNP
>> test I took which was in 11/2003. I took the CCIE
>> R&S written on 05-
>> Jun-2002 and 03-Jun-2004 but it looks like since I
>> did not take the
>> CCIE written after October 1, 2004 it did not renew
>> it. My question
>> is to my CCNA and CCNP it looks like to re-certify I
>> can either take
>> the 642-891 or retake the CCIE written is this
>> correct? Also since I
>> passed the lab over 6 months ago if I retook the
>> 642-891 or the CCIE
>> written will that recertify me for another two
>> years? It seems kinda
>> odd to me that passing the CCIE lab did not
>> re-certify the lower
>> tests. This seems like a way that Cisco is using to
>> scam every penny
>> it can.
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/
>> learning_about_recertication.html#ccnp_ccdp
>>
>>
>>
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