Depends why you want to become certified.
If you want to be able to enhance your job prospects because you have more
letters after your name, or because Cisco partners need a certain number of
qualified people, then go for the CCNP unless you're seriously intending to
follow up the CCIE written with the lab. The CCIE written on its own gives
you no qualification and no formal recognition, despite the plethora of
'CCIE candidate' and 'CCIE written' wannabes.
If you are pursuing certification to fill in gaps in your knowledge, or for
personal satisfaction, it doesn't matter too greatly. As you say, the CCIE
written is not much more study than the CCNP. In my opinion the CCIE
written is broader, but the CCNP exams require slightly more in depth
knowledge (note that I did mainly CCNP 1.0 exams - there seems to be a
school of thought that reckons the 2.0 exams are not as hard). Because the
CCIE written is a single exam and covers a lot of topics, you can get away
with not knowing some of the topics and still passing, as any particular
topic may only have a couple of questions - this may be harder to do with
the CCNP. However there are topics on the CCIE written that are not
covered in any of the CCNP exams, unless you go for the specialisations.
If this is why you're doing certification, you may as well do both.
My 2c - YMMV
JMcL
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Subject: CCIE vs CCNP
Is it reasonable to take the CCIE written instead of CCNP? I've been
working
with Cisco equipment and software for over 10 years and decided to go ahead
with certification. The CCNP looks like a good choice, but it appears the
CCIE written only requires a few more months of study. Of course, the lab
is
a different story. Has anyone tried this?
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