If you take on demand training, how much time do you have to signup for exam?

TechGromit

So my co-worker took SANS 401 on demand training, despite taking a week off of work to do the training, he hasn't yet completed the course. He still have two more books to complete, he took the training Aug 13 to 17th, which was 5 weeks ago. I assumed he purchased the certification attempt when he took his training, but I found out today, he didn't. Now I know for live training, normally you sign up the week you take the training for the certification attempt to get the discount rate someone like $675 last time I paid for one, but I don't know how long you have to sign up for the exam for on demand training to get the discounted rate. I believe the office told me I could still sign up after the event if you call them, but I thought the cut off was 30 days.

Does anyone know how much time you have to pay for a certification attempt when taking on-demand training, and still get the discounted rate? How much is it if you don't get the discount, I recall $1,000, but I'm not sure, it's something like $1200 if you challenge the exam.

al88

Exam challenge is now a solid $1899

And yes, he can still get the discount with the On-Demand,
maybe not the bundle discount of $729 (he can try to email them though, I've seen it happen but after a live course).
But definitely the alumni discount, which makes it $1099, anytime if you ever took the course.

More details here:
https://www.sans.org/special/affiliate-pricing-giac

TechGuru80

You should call SANS...they are great to deal with in general and at this point we are speculating what could happen. Either way make sure your coworker understands taking a training like SANS and not getting the certification makes zero sense for next time.