There are also, unfortunately, things like Cisco's CCIE, that were originally exceedingly hard to get, and a guarantee of clue -- but based on my experiences with folks carrying high CCIE numbers, have failed to maintain that high standard. I see that there's a new cert from Cisco called the CCAr now, which is supposed to exceed the CCIE requirements, and that Cisco's also split the CCIE into a zillion sub-versions, which could explain the decline in quality, and also smacks of your basic MAKEMONEYFAST kicking in.
My CCNA expired at the start of this month. Back in August I started pondering my options, thinking about how much value I got out of it. Reading around the Cisco site I discovered I could renew my CCNA just by sitting another 'professional' level exam, which included ones like VOIP, PIX Firewalls and a bunch of other topics of that ilk. The CCNA syllabus covers things like routing protocols, subnetting, network infrastructure, cable types and relative advantages, all sorts of all-round networking stuff (albeit not to great depth). A lot of that is stuff I've not touched in the 3 years since I last took the exam, but I could have my CCNA remain current and supposedly an indication of my knowledge of such things, merely by sitting an exam that has absolutely nothing to do with them.
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