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How Many Times Could You Take the CCIE Security Lab Exam?
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CCIE Security lab training offered by SPOTO Club would be intended to transform professionals into experts with advance level knowledge of Security technologies, practically. Before appearing for the CCIE Security lab exam, candidates need to clear CCIE Security written exam for the same because clearing the written exam serves as a prerequisite for any CCIE Lab certification to be taken. All over the world only 8 locations are going to be available where the candidate could sit for the CCIE Security Lab exam, as well as they are Bangalore (India), Beijing (PRC), Dubai (UAE), Hong Kong (PRC), RTP (USA), San Jose (USA), Sydney (Australia), Brussels (Belgium), as well as Tokyo (Japan). Applicants could choose the nearest lab location for saving on expenditures that would be incurred.
CCIE/CCDE Lab Exam Policies Lab Exam: Retakes
All candidates are required to wait for 30 days between CCIE lab attempts. Please note that the 30-day period would be starting from the day after a failed lab exam. Candidates who don’t pass the CCDE practical exam would be able to retake it during the next scheduled exam administration. Effective August 2, 2014, the following policy changes are going to be enforced:
- Candidates who would have failed any CCIE lab exam on the first attempt must wait for a period of 30 calendar days before scheduling their second attempt at the same lab exam.
- Candidates who have failed the second attempt at any CCIE lab exam must wait for a period of 90 calendar days approx before scheduling any further attempts. The same wait time would be applied to subsequent attempts until the fifth attempt.
- Candidates who would have failed the fifth attempt at any CCIE lab exam must wait for a period of 180 calendar days before they would be able to schedule any further attempts. However, candidates are required to make an initial attempt at the CCIE lab exam or CCDE practical exam within the time span of 18 months of clearing the CCIE or CCDE written exam.
- These policy changes would be applied retroactively from the date of a candidate's who have the first lab attempt.
| # Failed Attempts | Next Attempt Number | Wait time |
| >0 | 1 | *N/A |
| 1 | 2 | 30 Days |
| 2 | 3 | 90 Days |
| 3 | 4 | 90 Days |
| 4 | 5 | 90 Days |
| 5 | 6 | 180 Days |
| 6 | 7 | 180 Days |
CCIE/CCDE Written Exam Policies Written Exam: Retakes
There is no limit to the number of attempts that could be made on the CCIE written exam. However, candidates are required to wait 5 calendar days between exam attempts. Once a candidate cleared a particular written exam, he or she might not retake that same exam for at least 180 days. Though rare, the need to retake an exam that would have already been passed might occur in certain recertification situations. Effective August 2, 2014, the following policy changes are going to be enforced:
- Candidates who would have failed any CCIE or CCDE written exam are required to wait for a period of 15 calendar days, beginning the day after the failed attempt, before retaking the same exam.
- Candidates might attempt any CCIE or CCDE written exam up to four times per rolling calendar year. Candidates couldn’t retake the same written exam more than four times per rolling calendar year regardless of failing or passing the exam.