The recertification policy for the CCIE exam would be changing, from February 24, 2020.
CCIEs would be needed to recertify their certifications every two years:
Active CCIE status would be showing your commitment to maintaining expert-level knowledge in an industry critical in order to achieve the success of virtually every organization. CCIEs would be encouraged to continually expand their technical knowledge as well as are required to clear a recertification exam every two years. If you don’t wish to complete your recertification before the deadlines, your CCIE certification would be suspended and you as well as your employer would be losing the benefits would be associated with your expert status. You would be having one year to reinstate your CCIE status before you become inactive and you would have to begin the certification process all over again. You could achieve this certification and recertify it if you join the training provided by the SPOTO Club.
Recertification Deadline
Your recertification deadline could be viewed online anytime, with your login) at Certification Status.
Subsequent recertification deadlines are would be based on your original certification date always, not on when you took your last recertification exam.
Candidates would be required to make an initial attempt of the CCIE lab exam within 18 months of clearing the CCIE written exam. Candidates who wouldn’t have pass must reattempt the lab exam within 12 months of their last scored attempt so as to make written exam to remain legitimate. If a candidate fails to do so within three years of clearing the written exam, he or she wouldn’t have to retake the written exam before being allowed to attempt the CCIE lab exam again.
Recertification Details
For the maintenance active status, for every 24-months CCIEs have the flexibility as well as option to recertify utilizing one of the options below before the certification expiration date:
Achieving the required credits through the Cisco Continuing Education Program, or
Clearing any current CCIE Written Exam OR CCIE Lab Exam, or
Clearing the current CCDE Written Exam OR current CCDE Practical Exam, or
Finishing the Cisco Certified Architect (CCAr) interview AND the CCAr board review to extend lower certifications.
CCIE certification would automatically extend other Cisco Certifications, like CCNP or CCNA.
CCIE Candidates are going to be able to apply for only one passed written exam or the earned required credits utilizing Cisco Continuing Education Program towards recertification for every recertification period of 24 months.
Candidates would be required to wait 15 calendar days between attempts at the written exam.
Certification candidates are considered to be responsible for keeping track of their certification expiration dates. The candidates would have to plan their recertification accordingly. If your requirements of CCIE recertification aren’t accomplished on or before the certification's expiration date, your CCIE certification would be suspended for one year. Candidates who have one year to recertify their CCIE certification could do by passing the required written exam. If a candidate doesn’t recertify prior to the one-year deadline as well as your employer would be notified. Suspended candidates are going to have a time period one year to recertify their CCIE certification by clearing the required written exam or practical lab before their expert level certification would become permanently inactive. Inactive CCIE professionals would be losing all benefits as well as they are required to clear both the CCIE wrote and lab exams again.
Surpassing CCIE or recertifying CCIE would be able to extend your active Entry, Associate, Professional or other Expert level certification(s), or Specialist certifications, automatically up to the date of expiration to the latest CCIE, CCDE or CCAr certification achieved.
So, if you wish to have more information regarding the recertification, you would be able to find it on the main website of Cisco. Here is some info about CCNA renewal options, hope it can help you. Hence you are going to require lots of training, which you could gain at the SPOTO Club.
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