Bummer, mine is good for three years. Don
----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Zhou" To: Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 9:02 PM Subject: RE: Is there a time limited for taking all the CCNP ex [7:29452] > Hi Godswill, > > Thank you very much! Your answer is very clear! > > From your mail, I learned: > 1. The CCNP's expiration is two years. > 2. We can write CCNP V2 exams and CCNP v3 exams mixed, but we can only > get the CCNP V2 certification. > 3. After we get CCNP V2 certification, we can upgrade to V3 with an > upgrade exam. > Is it all I should know? > > Thanks again for your kindness!! > > Regards, > Patrick > > -----Original Message----- > From: Godswill HO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 2:02 PM > To: Patrick Zhou; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Is there a time limited for taking all the CCNP ex > [7:29449] > > Hi Patrick, > > In respective of the date you started any of your CCNP or CCDP track, > you > are certified on the very date you wrote the last exam in each of the > serials. eg If I write Routing 2.0 on 1/1/2001 and wrote the other two > any > date in between, but for one reason or the other I now write the last > exam > say CIT 3.0 on 1/1/2003. You will become CCNP on 1/1/2003 ie if you > passed > CIT 3.0 and the two years expiration of your certicate start counting > from > 1/1/2003 not 1/1/2001 when you first wrote the exam. > > However, you might be having a problem if the course you are yet to > write > get upgraded, it means, you probably are going to buy new books, look > for > new exam scenerios, would not have a familar exam format and all that. > Apart > from that, you will still be on course. If for example one of the exams > you > have written got upgraded before you complete all four, you are not > required > to go back and write that exam again, you have passed it already and it > still count towards your credit. > > Another thing you also have to bear in mind is that, Cisco normally > upgrade > the whole certificate at interval of times, eg the current CCNA v2 was > upgraded June 2000 from v1. I donot know the current version of CCNP we > have > now, assuming it is version 2, and you were not able to upgrade before > say > version 3 came up, You will still have the version 2 exams available for > you > to write at the end of the day, you will have CCNP v2 for you to get > CCNP > v3, you have to write just one upgrade exam and that is all., so your > CCNP > v2 by that exam would be upgraded to CCNP v3. > > Good luck > > Regards. > Oletu > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Patrick Zhou > To: > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 7:51 PM > Subject: RE: Is there a time limited for taking all the CCNP ex > [7:29449] > > > > Thanks for your reply! > > > > You meant, CCNA had 3 years to expire, but CCNP had only 2 years, > right? > > > > Oh! I never knows that, I had thought that expiration of CCNP was also > 3 > > years!! > > > > But how comes, if I start my ccnp exam in 2002, while the exams will > be > > upgraded in 2003? Would I have only 1 year time to finished all my > ccnp > > exams? Even I pass, will my certifications be retired after 2003's > ccnp > > exam upgrade? > > > > It's quite a confused question... thanks again for your kindness > reply! > > > > Regards, > > > > Patrick > > MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf > Of > > Nick S. > > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 10:21 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: Is there a time limited for taking all the CCNP ex > > [7:29375] > > > > Well, the 2 yr. limit exists because the certification itself expires > in > > 2 > > yrs. > > > > So if u begin ur ccnp today by going for 1 of the tests, the new > version > > of > > that test usually comes out in 2 yrs time, by which if u have or have > > not > > finished ur ccnp, ur certification has retired. > > > > Nick > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=30205&t=30205 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
