OT Pro Level re-certification dates after attaining CCIE

So my IE expires in August, and my pro certs expire in July.

My assumption after realizing this is that, a CCIE certification does not
actually re-certify your pro level certs for 2 years. It just re-certifies
them up until the next fixed expiration date, which may be under 2 years.
Which in turn means I'm stuck taking a pro level cert before July, and a
CCIE level cert in August.

Is there any way to sync the dates up, so we don't end up blowing either
extra money, or losing months off the two year cycle until the next CCIE
re-certification?

Anyone have any advice here? I'm tempted to just expire out my pro/associate
level certs, but I am quite attached to that CCNA I passed before the days
of widespread cheating over 10 years ago. I went through the netacademy for
1.5 years to earn that bad boy!

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Received on Fri May 27 2011 - 13:58:05 ART