On 10th of June 2019, Cisco has announced major change in Network Certifications.
Content:
New Cisco Next Level Certification
What are major changes? Only one CCNA exam (hurray?)
A new Specialist level (something between CCNA and CCNP)
Two exams for CCNP (1 x Core exam and your choice of 1 x Concertation exam) – no prerequisites
Cisco Certified Technician (CCT)
New Certification - Software Application Developer “DevNet”
CCIE changes (brief)
New Cisco CCNA Certification (exam 200-301),
New CCNA exam will have 80% networking topics and 20% programming topics,
No CCNA prerequisites to achieve CCNP certification,
CCNP certification requires 2 exams,
CORE exam (Specialist certifications) ,
Concentration exam in the same technology track,
Enterprise (ENCore 300-401),
Service Provider (SPCore 300-501),
Data Center (DCCore 300-601),
Security (SCore 300-701),
Collaboration (CLCore 300-801),
New Cisco CCNA Certification (exam 200-301) will replace:
CCNA Routing and Switching (200-125 or 100-105/200-105)
CCNA Security (210-260)
CCNA Cyber Ops (210-250/210-255)
CCNA Collaboration (210-060/210-065)
CCNA Cloud (210-451/210-455)
CCNA Wireless (200-355)
CCNA Data Center (200-150/200-155)
CCNA Service Provider (640-875/640-878)
CCNA Industrial (200-601)