New Changes To The Cisco CCNA CCNP CCIE Certification In Feb 2020
Though the excitement was over clouds at Cisco Live last week, not much was expected regarding course changes at the event. However, Cisco announcements made it clear how serious it was concerning the tremendously growing technology landscape and fast-evolving business needs of the industry. Cisco has developed various certifications over the past decades and these certifications have been evolving ever since as per growth in technology & advancements.
Cisco has been in the forerunner of adopting new technology in its product line and technology services. Recent years have seen an outburst in the growth of software and networking technology to manage the infrastructure. Eventually, it became crucial for Cisco to incorporate these advancements in their training to produce better capable professionals who are needed in the changing technology horizon.
Cisco updated its certification suite with a notion to drive better opportunities for the network experts.
Revoking the Pre-requisite
Cisco revokes the prerequisite certifications like CCENT, which was previously essential for undertaking the associate level certifications like CCNA. At the new updates announced on Cisco Live last Monday, after February 2020, CCENT would no longer be available.
Consolidation of CCNA Certification
Cisco unified all the multiple CCNA tracks like Routing & Switching, Security, Collaboration, Data Centre, Service Provider, etc. under a single Cisco Certification. The new CCNA certification course will cover basics of security, networking & even programmability and automation.
Proved to significance since, in the previous release, candidates pursued CCNA Routing & Switching for understanding the basics of networking and then again a CCNA course like Security, Wireless, etc. With this release, the need to enroll for multiple basic courses comes to an end.
DevNet: New Certification Path for Network Application Developer
Finally, Cisco, incorporated programming skillset in the certification path. With the DevNet Certification Path, Cisco made sure to prepare the candidates for network software development and infrastructure engineering. With the advent of technologies like Software Defined Networking, it has become extremely crucial to be ready with network programming skills and automation skills as well.
Cisco has defined the entire career path for them as well, namely:
1: Cisco Certified DevNet Associate
2: Cisco Certified DevNet Specialist
3: Cisco Certified DevNet Professional
4: Cisco Certified DevNet Expert (Will be available in the future)
Cisco released it as a dedicated certification path for professionals seeking Cisco credentials in the network programming and application development. Cisco Certified DevNet Specialist is a core certification focusing on the application development, operations, security on all Cisco platforms. It is essential for professionals in roles like DevOps, IoT, WebEx and automation engineers, etc.
By incorporating automation and network programmability at some level in every track and level of their certification courses, Cisco made sure that the upcoming generation of networking experts are well equipped to pace up with the software and automation technology which have been showing great potential in the recent years.
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