Hi ​@Asad Awan -

Since you’ve taken the v12 training, you can take the v12 exam...which is the current exam. The v13 exam is not yet available. If you take and pass the v12 exam, you do not have to take a v13 course. You can just take the v13 exam when it becomes available. As long as you continue taking and passing the most current exam, there is no need to take a course for future versions. Let me know if you have further questions.

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Hi Shane,

Thank you for your response. Since the VMCE exam is retiring on December 31st, 2025, should I have to attempt the v12 exam before that or should wait for v13 to come out and attempt that. TIA

For answers to most common cert questions, you can review the FAQs on Veeam’s site:

https://www.veeam.com/support/training/vmce-training-faq.html

and general VMCE info:

https://www.veeam.com/support/training/vmce-certification.html

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Hi ​@Asad Awan -

You have to have a current certification to not have to take a future course. So I recommend taking the v12 exam. Besides...there are so many changes to v13, you would need to lab and poke around in v13 awhile before I would recommend taking that exam anyway. 

Like Shane I would suggest taking v12 now then it saves you on taking another course for v13 where you can just write the exam after getting hands on and study.

Also ​@Asad Awan -

I did a webinar with the Veeam Certification Business Manager and one of the on-demand trainers a couple months ago. There’s some good cert info for the upcoming changes to Veeam certifications worth catching. You can view the video below:

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