Re: CCIE Recert loophole?

You are correct on that count Alexei. Passing the lab earns the first
24 months of active certification. It also begins your first 24-month
recert window where you *must* recertify at least once and you are
allowed to recertify *no more than once.* So I passed the lab on Feb
5, 2008 and that took me through Feb 5 2010. But I've recertified
once already, taking me through Feb 5 of 2012. But I'm not eligible
to recertify a second time until Feb 5 of 2010 or after (and obviously
no later than Feb 5, 2012). So that "four-year" phenomenon can only
occur in the case where you recertify just as soon as your eligible
once and then not again until you're about to lose certification the
next time.

On May 11, 2009, at 8:54 , Alexei Monastyrnyi wrote:

> I think that it is also so that if one passes say SP written for a
> recert and then passes Security writtent in a week, that will not
> get him- her a 48 months of cert validation.
>
> A.
>
> Scott M Vermillion wrote:
>> While one short-term "advantage" of the recert policy is that you
>> can get four years by taking the written the day after you pass the
>> lab, the true advantage that I see with the current policy is that
>> you can chose to get ahead instead of falling behind. For those of
>> us who travel sometimes for months on end, that's a nice safety
>> net. I recertified about a year after passing the lab and that
>> took me out to that four year point (four years from passing the
>> lab that is). But I'm not waiting until the last minute; to the
>> contrary, my target is to recert the very first day of my next 24-
>> month recertification period and every first day of every recert
>> period thereafter. This way I have a 24 month cushion (36 really)
>> if I get caught up in the heat of battle and can't dedicate myself
>> to properly preparing for the exam. You have to recert once every
>> 24 months and you are allowed to recert no more than once every 24
>> months, so the choice really is yours if you're doing that at the
>> beginning, middle, or end of your 24-month cycle.
>>
>>
>> On May 11, 2009, at 12:59 , Bogdan Sass wrote:
>>
>>> D.H. Williams wrote:
>>>> I don't know if a loophole, but I will tell you I passed my R/S
>>>> back in 2006
>>>> then took the Voice written later that year and my recert isn't
>>>> due up until
>>>> next year. But again, this was three years ago.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Modular <modulartx_at_gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> A buddy of mine at work told me that there's a loophole in the
>>>>> recertification process whereby someone
>>>>> who has just passed the lab can immediately take the recert
>>>>> (written) exam
>>>>> and have his/her recert date
>>>>> pushed out to 4 years instead of 2. He also mentioned that this
>>>>> could only
>>>>> be done for your first recert.
>>>>> Is this true?
>>>>>
>>> It's not a loophole - it's just the way the CCIE recertification
>>> goes. :) When you recertify, the additional two years are counted
>>> from the previous recertification deadline, not from the date you
>>> actually take the recertification exam.
>>>
>>> It was a pleasant surprise for me when (only months after passing
>>> the CCIE RS lab) I passed the Security written, and found that the
>>> recertification deadline has been pushed more than two years into
>>> the future. But if you read (between the lines :P ) the
>>> recertification requirements, you'll see that's the way it's
>>> supposed to be.
>>>
>>> However, don't think there's no limit here - according to the
>>> same requirements, the recertification exam must be passed in the
>>> 24 months preceding the deadline. So you cannot push your deadline
>>> more than 4 years in the future.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Bogdan Sass
>>> CCAI,CCSP,JNCIA-ER,CCIE #22221 (RS)
>>> Information Systems Security Professional
>>> "Curiosity was framed - ignorance killed the cat"
>>>
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