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=29451&t=29451 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
