Inspired by other recent posts.
Years ago I was working towards CCIE and decided that taking a bunch of professional certs along the path was a good approach, so if I didn't get there then I'd still have something to show for it. Currently I hold 3 Cisco professional certs and have been getting a flood of e-mails to show they were expiring soon.
I think they're useful for getting my CV up the pile but I'm seeing less value in infrastructure specific stuff and more in full stack knowledge or applications. To get mine back would be about 8 exams and it's always good to learn so decided to crack on anyway and spent the last few months of limited spare time working through the SWITCH subjects. The joys of spanning-tree that I'd managed to forget!
Then I went to book the exam - £225, ouch! The cost of that has just tipped me over the edge, add that in with needing to take time off work, travel to the test centre, deal with the daft questions on obscure bits of the syllabus and go through all the general pain that Cisco exams entail. It doesn't sit well with me to try and profit from people who are basically ambassadors for your products.
So I think that's it for me, I've been Cisco qualified for the last 15 years and in 12 days time that ends.
And I have £225 towards my next guitar.
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