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You can check this yourself if you login to the Cisco Certmetrics website: https://cp.certmetrics.com/cisco/en/home/dashboard
Look under the Certifications - Cert Status and click on one of your CCNPs. It will tell you the different methods of renewing.

Thanks, that is a good resource. 

I also got a clearer response back from Cisco.  It seems earning another professional level cert will renew all other professional level certs, starting from the date you earned it, not the date of the last Core exam.

Once you passed both of the 350-901 DEVCOR and 300-435 ENAUTO exams, you will earn the DevNet Professional. It will also recertify your other certifications as well.

That's the rule in Certifications, once recertification requirements are met to a certain level of certification, it will recertify your certification(s). Whether you took the exams for the purpose of obtaining a new certification, intentional or not.

Hi Everyone,

I've been going back and forth with Cisco support on this, but I'm not getting an answer that makes sense.  I'm hoping someone has gone through this already.

I have an active CCNP-ENT and CCNP-DC, I renewed last year with the 350-601 so both are valid through 2025.

My Plan is to take the DevNet 350-901 in 2025 in order to renew both CCNPs through 2028.  Cisco confirmed this was possible.

Next, I would take a DevNet specialty, like 300-435 in order to get the DevNet pro.  Do the CCNP's renew again when I obtain the DevNet pro cert?  Cisco is telling me no, that I need to take a second specialty.  This does not make sense to me.

If that is true, it seems like I'll always be in a pattern where the expiration date of the Pro certs are out of sync and I'll be taking a specialty every year to renew a different Pro level cert.  This brings up a whole new set of scenarios and questions.

Hopefully someone has gone through this and can shed some light?  Thanks!

Re: running 7200s.... er.... Have you looked @ IOU in dynamips/GNS3? I can get ridiculous amounts of stuff running in IOU at what feels like 10x the speed of emulated IOS routers. INCLUDING MULTILAYER SWITCHES

http://www.networking-forums.com/index.php?topic=47.0

Thank you for this, I thought IOU was only available to cisco employees.  Are you running it in GCE or on your own hardware?

To dredge up an old thread...

I'm tossing around the idea of upgrading my home server to an ESXi box running CSR's.  My current server that I used for my CCNP is a pretty moderate linux box dedicated to dynamips.  I can run 15 or so 3750's pretty comfortably, or 5 7200's.  There's 12 break out ports connecting to my switches.

To start, my questions regarding the ESX/CSR solution are:

• How does the ESX solution connect to external switches?  Can I map router interfaces to NIC's or will I need to trunk them to a dedicated breakout switch?
  
  
• I'll either have to buy an ESX license or reload after the evaluation period.  Is there an experation on the CSR images as well? 
  
  
• With dynamips, I can load topologies/configurations from the dynamips command line without running a seperate tftp server, and I can do packet captures on any interface including serial.  Can I get that in ESX?
  

Thanks for your opinions!

Hi All,

Professional lurker from other forms here.  Figured if I'm going to get more involved, might as well do it while the forum is young.

I'm a typical mid level engineer for a typical mid sized enterprise, doing mostly meat and potatos routing and switching.  I've been in IT for about a decade, started off as a junior solaris/database admin, got sucked into Cisco and Linux. 

I've got a couple of certs, hoping to add to that this year.  Managed to re-up my CCNP about two weeks before the 642-* series was retired and will probably sit for the CCNA-Sec within the next few months.  Then maybe on to VMWare...who knows.

Anyway, glad to be aboard.  Cheers!