Cisco Certifications

Evolve. Be Relevant. Get Certified. Why are a bunch of CONEs (Crusty Old Network Engineers) rallying around a certification focused on programming? The short answer is that we, too, must evolve and keep our skills relevant. The new Cisco DevNet certifications announced at Cisco Live US 2019 give us…

Business customers in every industry are facing fierce competition from digital born-in-the-cloud disruptors. As their businesses have grown, so has the complexity of their networks. Yet, the network is at the heart of their business, and increasingly so is software, cloud, and IoT, so digital trans…

As we get ever closer to the highly anticipated availability of Cisco DevNet Certifications exams (February, 2020), the excitement is building for those wishing to take and pass the DEVNET CCNP. For the professional track, exam requirements are similar to the CCNP current R&S track. In order to…

The network world is changing, and the skills that were valued a decade ago aren’t the ones that will carry your career into the future. This is what makes Cisco DevNet such an important resource for network professionals, and the new DevNet Certifications such a valuable proof that you’ve acq…

Announcing Cisco’s newest business specialization for partners: The DevNet Specialization I’m always amazed by our DevNet community. The DevNet mantra has been “Learn – Code – Inspire – Connect,” and our networkers and software developers have been living this – I’m so inspir…

This past June at Cisco LIVE! in San Diego, Cisco and DevNet were proud and excited to announce our new certification track offering courses, exams, and real-live Cisco Certs for coders and developers. You can read all about the launch in Susie Wee’s blog. With blueprints for the DevNet associate, p…

Networks are now programmable. Applications built for those networks have become essential to business security and success. As a result, the need for meaningful software skills development and certification has become a requirement. Many of us working in network automation, app dev, and DevOps have…

This summer at Cisco Live, I was honored to be a part of Cisco’s new and updated certifications launch alongside my colleague, Susie Wee, senior vice president and CTO of Cisco DevNet. It was an exciting experience for us to hear Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins speak on behalf of our vision and bring our #C…

In the past nine years I’ve worked at Cisco, I’ve seen some of the most significant expansions and updates to the Cisco Certification program – from the reorganization of the CCVP, CCIP, and CCSP certifications into the larger CCNP program; to the continued evolution of CCNA; to the further refineme…