Cisco Certification – A Closer Deep-Dive Look

Cisco Certification – A Closer Look

Recently Cisco has introduced variety of new Certification in each and every technology Space along with its Associate, Specialist, professional and Expert level.

If We see deeper in to it, Cisco has refined their certification as per today business demand, market expectation. Let’s see what all certification levels has been introduced by Cisco in their Certification path.

Associate

The Associate level of Cisco Certifications starts with CCNA for installation, operations and troubleshooting of network or CCDA for network design. This Associate Level as the foundation level of networking certification.

Below are Associate Level Exam available:

• CCDA
• CCNA Cloud
• CCNA Collaboration
• CCNA Data Center
• CCNA Industrial
• CCNA Routing and Switching
• CCNA Security
• CCNA Service Provider
• CCNA Wireless

Professional:

This is the advanced level of certification that needs more expertise with networking skills. Each certification covers a different technology to meet the needs of varying job roles.

• CCDP
• CCNP Cloud
• CCNP Collaboration
• CCNP Data Center
• CCNP Routing and Switching
• CCNP Security
• CCNP Service Provider
• CCNP Wireless

Expert:

The Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) certification is the worldwide most prestigious networking certification in the industry. Candidate Holding these Certification are treated as Solution Architects, Designers, L3 Engineers in networking field.

• CCDE
• CCIE Collaboration
• CCIE Data Center
• CCIE Routing and Switching
• CCIE Security
• CCIE Service Provider
• CCIE Wireless

Specialists

The Specialist designation certifies the specific expertise of technical professionals, including those with Cisco Career Certifications at the associate, professional or expert levels. By earning specialist certifications, network professionals can enhance their core networking knowledge in technologies such as security, data center or video.

Network Programmability

• Cisco Business Application Engineer Specialist
• Cisco Network Programmability Developer Specialist
• Cisco Network Programmability Design Specialist
• Cisco Network Programmability Engineer

Collaboration

• Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise Specialist
• Cisco TelePresence Solutions Specialist
• Cisco Video Network Specialist

Service Provider

• Cisco Service Provider Mobility CDMA to LTE Specialist
• Cisco Service Provider Mobility UMTS to LTE Specialist

Data Center

• Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Design Specialist
• Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Support Specialist

FlexPod

• Cisco and NetApp FlexPod Design Specialist
• Cisco and NetApp FlexPod Implementation and Administration Specialist

 

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