Did you miss the Live Stream today on the new Cisco Certs coming early 2020? No problem – here is the recording. If you do not have thirty minutes to spare – no worries, my notes from the Live Stream are below:

What is staying the same?

• The levels are still there for us – Entry, Associate, Professional, Expert, Architect
• The tracks are still there for us – Collaboration, Security, Data Center, Enterprise (R&S), Service Provider, etc.

What is changing?

• Many of the certs are retiring; their content will be distributed into the remaining levels and tracks
  • CCENT
  • CCDA
  • CCDP
  • CCNP Cloud (worked into Data Center track)
  • CCNP Wireless (worked into Enterprise track)
  • Every CCNA outside of just…one single CCNA exam
• There are new requirements, for example, to get a CCNP Enterprise, you pass one core exam and one concentration exam (from many)
• There are some exam format changes – for example, the CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure lab exam is now consisting of two parts instead of three!
• There is a new DevNet track!

Why all these changes? (My opinions)

• Cisco was VERY behind on many exams and tracks
• Cisco wanted Certs to track to job roles better – the concentrations to pick from accommodating this beautifully
• Cisco wanted to improve their exams and their exam protections
• They wanted to introduce some new formats

Please subscribe to the blog if you are interested in following my journey through the current CCIE Data Center written exam (2.1) which I will pass before all these changes! I will then take the new version of that written exam in Feb 2020!