New Fashion:
On June 9th – 2019, Cisco made an announcement of deleting and replacing ALL their CCNP Level “Exams”.
saying exams instead of certificates, as the labels of most the Certificates remained the same
(except for CCNP RS, who got replaced with CCNP – Enterprise).
New Criteria:
The new Exams as they are linked to the CCNP badges, came with a new criteria of becoming “Certified”.
now you will need to pass ONLY 2 exams and you will get granted the CCNP Badge, rather than needing a minimum of 3-4 exams in the previous system.
The new system requires 2 isolated parts to fulfill, before you become certified:
1- A Technology Core Exam, which plays a role in engaging you in 2 paths of certs. (The CCNP & The CCIE).
– and that will be:
– Enterprise, Security, Service Provider, Collaboration, Data Center, and the newly established DEVNET & CyberOps
2- A Technology Concentration Exam, every domain of the 7 mentioned in Point “1”, has a 1-7 different technologies to concentrate on.
This will be kind of having a Master degree in engineering, you consider some general topics, and focus on some other.
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