Have you ever failed a certification exam and decided not to take it again?
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Curious if anyone has ever failed an exam and then decided, for whatever reason, that they didn't want to try it again. Maybe you decided after-the-fact that it was a bad idea to take it in the first place, or maybe it would just cost too much money, or maybe you found a better avenue/cert to pursue.
I feel like the usual response for an exam failure to is to get upset with oneself and then become even more determined to pass it. But as admirable as that is, it's still usual. I'm interested in hearing about the unusual.
I feel like the usual response for an exam failure to is to get upset with oneself and then become even more determined to pass it. But as admirable as that is, it's still usual. I'm interested in hearing about the unusual.
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I failed CISSP twice so that was $1,198 down the drain, but there was no way I was going to give up on that pursuit.
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Other certs meant more to me. I think I could have failed the CCIE 10 times and would have still tried to become good enough to pass it.
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I would do the CCIE again until i get it.
I don't like leaving endeavors unfinished, so I don't think I could let an exam go.
I would've probably blamed my lack of commitment and lack of discipline had to do it with that (no labbing, just skim reading that blue W7 book).
A couple of years later, I passed my first Microsoft exam (70-410 installing configuring server 2012).
I'm actually thinking of doing the Windows 7 cert now just to say 'I did it' heh
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That was a quick way to waste $125. I dont work with VMware now so I giving up on it.
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I pretty much had the same experience with the 70-680; I lost interest after the 3rd fail.
But like I mentioned the OS certifications, YAWN....... Nice to haves and that is it.
Wow, that's rough. Did you/are you going to retake CCNA
ICND2, I kept failing and it kept costing me money. I didn't get the CCNA because I wasn't using the information even though I had jobs that I could touch Cisco equipment. I even let the CCENT expire because I wasn't using the information.
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I have more I've let expire and will not retake because they are no longer relevant to me (CCNA, and my Avaya certs when they expire in a few months..)
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Also, I failed the 642, but I plan on retaking that... sometime. Thinking about it, I think it's only MS exams that I've failed. I guess I'm just not an MS kind of guy.
Retook it two weeks ago after 3 weeks of study and passed =]
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Indeed, I failed an MS exam once before, I think it was the 70-685. Hopefully I won't need to do an MS exam again. I also failed the CCNA:Security once and I think that's all of my fails, for now anyways. I would give up on an exam because I failed.