CERTIFICATION EXPIRE DATE

[WEER]

Hi,

I have passed FCNSA in 2012.Can you please tell me about the expiration date if anybody knows??Because I didn't get any notification form Fortigate.

Thank you

[Dave_Hall]

I would like to know this myself; I passed the FCNSA exam in Dec 2012 and was told by Training a month later (Jan 2013) that it would be still good until FortiOS 6.0 comes out (or something to that affect) -- whether this has changed, I do not know.

[neonbit]

My understanding is that there's no expiration date for the certificates, but that they are only valid for the version you take them for.

For example if you get FCNSP for v4, then it's not valid for v5. When FortiOS v6 comes out we would need to retake the exam to be certified for it.

[Dave_Hall]

neonbit wrote:

For example if you get FCNSP for v4, then it's not valid for v5. When FortiOS v6 comes out we would need to retake the exam to be certified for it.

I think it may be a little different for those that have taken the FCNSA exam during or shortly after 5.0 was introduced.  At that time (Dec late 2012/Jan 2013) the FCNSA exam was still based on the old 4.2 code base, and stated as such on the old campus FCNSA cert information page.  I think it wasn't until Later (Feb/early Mar 2013?) that new 5.x material was introduced into the exam. 

I have asked training about this (back in Jan 2013) and was told my FCNSA would be still good until 6.0 comes out.