Recertifying Cisco expert exams a new twist is here
Yasir Irfan
Trusted Security Advisor, Customer Success, Security Architect, Principal Customer Solutions Engineer - Sydney
Being a CCIE/ CCDE its self is a huge step one would take in his/her life, it's an informed decision one needs to take as maintaining a CCIE/CCDE is not an easy task. Every two year one needs to recertify his or her CCIE/CCDE either by passing any CCIE written / CCDE written exam or by passing CCIE /CCDE lab exam. Apart from extensive preparations, one needs to also has to bear the pain of exam costs as Cisco CCIE written exams not quite easy to pass and its cost one a good amount of money.
The recent CCDE practical lab exam cancellation has raised the reputation of expert level exams conducted by Cisco. These days often it's been observed people with no experience in networking domain were CCIEs / CCDEs, whereas it took over decades of hard earn experience to plan the CCIE journey.
With the announcement of Cisco Continuing Education Program Cisco added a new twist for recertification process of their expert level certifications. Cisco believes that principles like Flexibility, Diversity, and Integrity will be the driving force for this program.
According to Cisco CLN post "
" Flexibility is achieved by offering existing Cisco certified individuals an alternative option for recertification, in addition to the already existing option of recertifying by passing the relevant exam(s). Diversity is achieved by allowing individuals a wide range of preapproved items, such as online courses, instructor-led training, authoring of content, and Cisco Live training offerings (collectively called "Continuing Education items"), which can be pursued to earn credits toward recertification. Integrity is achieved by having Cisco authorized content providers, who deliver the content to the individual seeking recertification, validate the credits submitted by that individual."
Senior Network Architect - Cisco CCIE EI
7 年Really I do not see any improvement.. we still have to pay even higher amounts of money to keep certified by using this Continuing Education Program alternative.
Global Head of Training and Certification @ Arista
7 年It's not a perfect option and certainly many will continue to just take the written as it has worked fine for 25 years however if you are looking to truly update skills or add new ones while also recertifying it does give you options. I am the CEO of a Cisco Learning Partner and we are trying to make those options more attractive for existing CCIEs. Check out my article on CCIE Continuing Education and CCIE Wireless updates: https://lnkd.in/eDMKwwS and see if anything we are doing could help!
CCIE # 47826 (Datacenter) and R&S (Q),VCP6.5 , AZ 700,AWS(SA and Advance Networking Speciality),CCDP,CCSA,CCSP,MCP.ITIL v3
7 年But we are ending up with paying huge what we are paying for written.. majority of the trainings costs us min $ 1000.