Retake waiting time exception/work-around and September 24 deadline?
Does anyone know of any exceptions or work-arounds for either the five day waiting period to retake a failed exam or the September 24th deadline to take ICND v2? (I'm not talking about simply cheating, but something more legitimate.)
I've spent the last few months studying for ICND2, the second half of the CCNA. The last day to take this version is September 24th.
The new version is a very different exam, with a lot of different topics added and removed. I've been studying for version2, the old/current one.
Because I wasn't fully confident, even after all of this preparation, I decided to take the ultimate practice test - the actual exam.
Cisco's site says if you fail you have to wait five days to take it again. So I figured I could take it on September 19th, possibly fail and find out where I need to focus my studies for the final few days, then retake on September 24th. In fact it says "five days starting the day after you fail", so if I failed it on Sept 19, day one would be September 20, day 5 would be September 24.
With that plan in mind, I took it today, and missed passing by half of a question.
No problem, I'll study hard on the areas I was weak and retake in in five days, right. Then I see on my score sheet "first day retake allowed: September 25". Oh no! Apparently when Cisco says you have to wait five days, they really mean six days!
So now I'm really in a jam. I'm not allowed to retake until Sept 25, but the test I've been studying so hard for ends on Sept 24.
Normally when I find myself in a jam, I find some work-around, some way to make things work out. As example of the kinds of things I thought of that *could* work:
If the ICND2 v2 were gone, but the full CNNA combined test v2 were available for another week (no such luck).
If there were a policy that employees of Cisco partners can skip the waiting period under certain conditions?
If students of partner educational institutions had an extended deadline.
Any exceptions, workarounds, or other ways of resolving this, other than throwing out half of what I learned and learning a ton of new, completely different stuff, including Cisco's software defined networking philosophy and implementation?
