What happened to the CCNA? CCNP? CCIE? - An Overview (2019)

About this video

Chuck explains Cisco’s wholesale certification overhaul taking effect in February 2020, then interviews Yousef, who manages the certification program, and Joe from Learning at Cisco, alongside David Bombal. The CCENT is eliminated, so there is no longer a two-exam ICND1/ICND2 halfway route, and the many CCNA variants (Security, Collaboration, Data Center, CCDA and others) collapse into a single new CCNA earned with one exam. Cisco stresses the new CCNA is not a convergence of the old ones but a broader foundation covering routing and switching plus exposure to wireless, security, virtualization, programmability and automation. Specialization moves to CCNP, which across five tracks — enterprise, data center, security, service provider and collaboration — now requires just two exams: a mandatory technology core (for example ENCOR for enterprise, SCOR for security) plus one concentration chosen by the candidate. Passing each exam also grants a specialist badge, so two CCNP holders can have different concentrations. The CCIE written is replaced by that same technology core, followed by a lab split into a 3-hour design module and a 5-hour implement, operate and optimize module. Chuck urges anyone mid-path to finish before February 2020, pointing viewers to cisco.com/nextlevel for details.

Key takeaways

• CCENT is gone from February 2020 — there is no ICND1-only halfway credential, so candidates should finish a full CCNA before the deadline
• There is now only one CCNA, earned with one exam, designed as a broad foundation rather than a merger of the old specialist CCNAs
• CCNP is standardized to two exams in every track: a required technology core plus one concentration of the candidate’s choice
• Each core or concentration exam earns its own specialist certification, so a CCNP title alone no longer shows the holder’s specialty
• The CCIE written is replaced by the technology core exam; the lab is 3 hours of design plus 5 hours of implement, operate and optimize

Episode details: published June 15, 2019 · 51:21 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are NetworkChuck’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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