We're extending all active Cisco Certifications

[deanwebb]

I still use what I learned for my MCSE NT 4.0/Exchange 5.5 back in the day, but, yeah, I'm MCSE "written but expire", as the saying went...

[wintermute000]

What's the quickest / easiest / cheapest / useful way to extend these days with continuing education? By the time my next expiry rolls around I will be literally just a year off a decade so I will make no bones about the fact that its a minimum effort lurch over the line, get the Emeritus badge and never bother with it again. Unfortunately work will no longer pay LOL. Could cram a CCNP core and a CCNP concentration exam but even that is almost 1k USD (!!!), not to mention a lot of legit effort. Maybe easiest to spend that money on digital learning so at least there's no chance of failing. Taking the devnet course(s) is my current idea since practicing python is pretty much multi-vendor. 

I've been CCNP certified more than 10 years now - you make it sound like there is a reward ? I'd like a reward A pat on the back would suffice

(edit - I accidentally clicked modify because someone was talking to me, i reverted the accidental edit)

Its a CCIE thing - 10 years+ and you can pay them $350 (last time I checked...) and they will stamp you as "Emeritus" which never expires. So you get off the treadmill, but you can still call yourself a CCIE (Emeritus). The ego-stroking / sunk-cost fallacy is real.

Not counting $vendor, aside from this I'm only going to bother extending Azure ones.
 

[config t]

What's the quickest / easiest / cheapest / useful way to extend these days with continuing education? By the time my next expiry rolls around I will be literally just a year off a decade so I will make no bones about the fact that its a minimum effort lurch over the line, get the Emeritus badge and never bother with it again. Unfortunately work will no longer pay LOL. Could cram a CCNP core and a CCNP concentration exam but even that is almost 1k USD (!!!), not to mention a lot of legit effort. Maybe easiest to spend that money on digital learning so at least there's no chance of failing. Taking the devnet course(s) is my current idea since practicing python is pretty much multi-vendor.

I did a couple digital learning courses and called it a day. All-in I think it cost me around $1k USD

[wintermute000]

Yeah, also I just discovered I can redo those viptela courses (again), so I will probably wring 20-30 points out that way and then cover the rest with ~1.5k of network automation courses (at least I'm practicing multi-vendor skills).

Its really a shock to the system not being given exams for free anymore (only $VENDOR exams are free, lol). They won't even pay for my Azure certs!

[deanwebb]

Work for company: take the online course, we'll pay for the test if you pass.

Work for VAR: take the in-person course, we'll pay for the test. ALL of them... several dozen, if you could manage, we'd like to retain gold status...

Work for $VENDOR: If we made it, you'll get the training. If not, sounds like you have an expensive hobby, there...