Brocade exams for BCNE and BCNP retiring

[icecream-guy]

Exams retire sometime in March when new exams become available.

Brocade is retiring the BCNE (CNE-200) and BCNP (CNP 300) exams in favor of 2 more updated exams, NIP (Network Industry Protocols NIP-200) and BPIPA (Brocade Professional IP Administrator BPIPA-200)

http://www.brocade.com/en/backend-content/pdf-page.html?%2fcontent%2fdam%2fcommon%2fdocuments%2fcontent-types%2ffaqs%2fbrocade-bpipa-nip-faq.pdf

Don't worry BCNE and BCNP certs never expire...

[config t]

There's my motivation to finally study for BCNP

[wintermute000]

In networking, any vendor cert not from Cisco or Juniper has almost no bearing on your employability (maybe checkpoint for a security guy....).
So do it for your self education (so if they expire, pfffft...), or not at all.

[config t]

Perhaps that is true in the private sector. Many DoD networks are migrating to Brocade so they (Brocade certs) are gaining traction in that arena.

I like the Brocade platforms I have had a chance to play with. ICX 6610 and 7750, and the MLX-e series chassis.