WVU-Parkersburg’s Workforce and Community Education division now has both the Pearson/VUE testing and Prometric testing center online.  This means you can now take all of your certifications on campus!  Which one should you take first?  If you have finished CIT 106 (INTRO) or CIT 206 (ICND), I would recommend you take the Cisco CCNA exams.  According to the May Global Academy Update, we received the following notice:

“The INTRO (640-821), ICND (640-811), and CCNA (640-801) certification exams (all language versions) will be available to Networking Academy students until July 31, 2009. After July 31, 2009 vouchers for these exams will no longer be accepted.”

If you take the exam after July 31st, you will need to take the newest version of the exam, which is more difficult and covers topics that may not have been taught in your original class unless you took the CCNA Version 4 (Exploration) curriclum.