From: Wink (dwinkworth@wi.rr.com)
Date: Sat Sep 08 2007 - 18:11:35 ART
Yeah, but thats one hell of a nick in the bed-post.
The first two are free, BTW, then the you pay for the two labs.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Morris" <smorris@ipexpert.com>
To: "'Darby Weaver'" <darbyweaver@yahoo.com>; "'Cisco certification'"
<ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 3:19 PM
Subject: RE: Cisco Raises Prices - Juniper for Free... Hmmm.... Who's gonna
win?
> Only the beginning Juniper exam is free, so let's not go off the deep end
> here. They're still $1,250 for the labs! M-series has two of those...
> ER-Series has only one.
>
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Darby Weaver
> Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 1:20 PM
> To: 'Cisco certification'
> Subject: OT: Cisco Raises Prices - Juniper for Free... Hmmm.... Who's
> gonna
> win?
>
> Exactly what is the "increased" value to test takers?
>
> Somebody help me here...
>
> Another $150.00 per attempt...
>
> Pretty STEEP.
>
> And where's the 6 months notice.
>
> It's like I went to sleep last night, checked my mail and on September 8th
> I
> found out that the price increase was on Spet 7, 2007...
>
>
> Pretty shoddy....
>
> Did this come up at Networkers in July at least...?
>
> Funny - some exams went up like 5% - from $300.00 to $315.00
>
> Others went up from 25% - from $125.00 to $150.00 like
> 640-801
>
> And the lab jumped like 12% or so by $150.00
>
>
> Any one else steamed?
>
>
> Explain the added value? Why are not all exams going up...
>
> Well, I guess one can always study Cisco, but not take the exams at all.
>
> I mean how impressive one might appear to be if one knows the IOS pretty
> decently and does NOT even hold a CCIE, CCNP, or CCNA...
>
> Lots of jobs do not necessarily require certification at all.
>
> Most of my previous jobs have not required certification - so I wonder
> where's the added value?
>
> What motivates a seasoned veteran to hang on... paper holds anything?
>
> Did they add more questions?
>
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