Thanks everyone. Appreciate the input. And your suggestions were exactly what I was thinking, doing both concurrently is achievable. I'll be reporting back with regular updates and if anyone has questions such as I did, feel free to pm me - be glad to help.

I am scheduled to take my first CIC exam in about 3 weeks time, however the next CIC exam in my state (Florida) isn't until February 2012 so I was thinking of getting started with the CPCU in the meantime especially now realizing that with the CIC exam all you do is "show up" for 3 days th...