We're extending all active Cisco Certifications

[icecream-guy]

in my email today...

Dear David,

The global pandemic has had an impact on every member of the Cisco Certified family. To support your certification goals, we're extending the expiration date for all active certifications by six months (180 days) as of March 16, 2020. This covers all Cisco and DevNet Specialist, Associate, Professional, and Expert certifications as well as CCT and CCAr.  

Your expiration date will automatically be extended, and there is no action required on your part. You will be able to check your personal certification manager page to validate your new expiration date within the next two weeks. 

For more details and frequently asked questions, please visit our blog. We value your commitment to Cisco certifications during this challenging and unprecedented time.

Best regards,

Learning@Cisco

[deanwebb]

Aww, that's so sweet of them!

[Dieselboy]

Got the same - I'm grateful.

[icecream-guy]

epic grave dig.

I think they extended again,  I was checking my cert expire dates today,  they now expire 01/31/2023
and a whole bunch of new stuff that I never knew about.  Just put them all on my updated resume.

[deanwebb]

Wow, that's nice of them.

[config t]

I've been anti-cisco certs lately (Diesel kind of talked me off the ledge though) but this is cool of them to do it again.

In other news, Marriott extended my status for an additional year because of COVID too 

[deanwebb]

National car rental is about to just Emerald everyone for life.

[config t]

National car rental is about to just Emerald everyone for life.

If everybody is special, isn't nobody special?

[deanwebb]

National car rental is about to just Emerald everyone for life.

If everybody is special, isn't nobody special?

They just like it if people grab any old car and drive off, less hassle on the front end.

[Dieselboy]

I didnt get extended this recent time I have to pass a CCNP exam before September.

Back to sd-wan studies Will probably shove 64GB RAM in my gaming PC and make use of the 5960X for this. Using the lab in the office, th sd-wan vEdge keeps losing its interfaces - fixed with reboot or shut/no shut but messes up the lab. Needs to be done a few times each day :/

[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. 

[deanwebb]

^ which is why I'm hopping over to CISSP. Different cert for a different phase of my career.

[icecream-guy]

What's the quickest / easiest / cheapest / useful way to extend these days with continuing education?

Hope covid continues, and Cisco again extends the expire dates.

[Dieselboy]

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)

[icecream-guy]

-  Certified under the Splunk Certified Power User 6.x Program, since 06/2018
-  Certified under the Splunk Certified User 6.x Program, since 05/2018
-  Certified under the Cisco Certified Network Professional Program, since 05/2010
-  Certified under the Cisco Certified Network Associate Security Program, since 02/2011
-  Certified under the Cisco Certified Network Associate Program, since 08/2000
-  Certified under the Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing and Switching certificate, since 08/2000
-  Certified under the Cisco Certified Network Professional Enterprise Program, Since 05/2010
-  Cisco Certified Specialist - Enterprise Advanced Infrastructure Implementation, Since 05/2010
-  Cisco Certified Specialist - Enterprise Core certificate, Since 05/2010
-  Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) CNSS 4011 Recognition. since 02/2011
-  IPv6 Forum Gold Network Engineer Certification, since 07/2012
-  Information Systems Security (INFOSEC) Professional Recognition, since 02/2011
-  Certified under the Brocade Certified Network Professional Program, since 06/2010
- Cisco ASA Specialist 04/2014 - 04/2016
- Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional 08/2011 - 10/2014

Do I use any of it ?

Maybe the ASA Specialist, the Splunk Power User, and IPv6 Forum Gold Network Engineer Certification
but it all helps in the knowledge of networking