Monday 5 August 2019

How to become CCNA, CCNP, CCIE Certified? New Cisco Certification Tracks and their Codes

Recently announced Cisco certification changes have created a lot of buzz over the internet. Network Enthusiastic who were taking Cisco certification training or have been preparing for Cisco certification exam are curious to know about such changes in detail.

All Network learners have one question in mind, “how to become CCNA, CCNP, CCIE certified after such changes implementation on 24th Feb 2020?”

Along with the changes in Cisco exam versions, tracks and codes, Cisco has also changed its examination pattern by introducing the Core and the Concentration examinations.

If you are interested to know, how to become CCNA, CCNP, CCIE certified, and want to know about new Cisco tracks and their codes than keep reading.

How to get CCNA Certification

Cisco has made the biggest change in its CCNA certification exam. All CCNA tracks are now merged into one CCNA certification exam.

All the CCNA tracks which are available now to attempt, will retire on 23rd Feb 2020. The new CCNA certification exam with the exam code 200 - 301 CCNA will get live on 24th Feb 2020. There is no specific prerequisites specified by Cisco to attempt this certification exam and the validity of this certification will be 3 years as the previous ones.

How to get CCNP Certification


Introduction to Core and Concentration exam has been made in the professional-level certification exams. Pass the core exam of the respective track and prepare for anyone concentration exam to become CCNP certified in your chosen track.

Unlike today CCNP certification tracks, there will be only 5 CCNP tracks to attempt with unique core and concentration exams of their own.

The 5 CCNP tracks which will be live on 24th Feb 2020 are,

1.CCNP Enterprise (revised CCNP R&S)
2. CCNP Collaboration
3. CCNP Data Center
4. CCNP Security
5. CCNP Service Provider

You can find their unique examination codes and certification exams by visiting this link -

How to get CCIE Certification

After implementation of new CIsco certification updates, you must first pass the core exam of the respective track and secondly register for the lab exam to become CCIE certified.

The lab exams for the above mentioned CCNP tracks are,
  • CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure v1.0 (Lab)
  • CCIE Collaboration v3.0 (Lab)
  • CCIE Data Center v3.0 (Lab)
  • CCIE Security v6.0 (Lab)
  • CCIE Service Provider v5.0 (Lab)
  • CCIE Enterprise Wireless v1.0 (Lab)
Note: CCIE Enterprise Wireless v1.0 (Lab) is the wireless track which is available only at the CCIE level and it take CCNP Enterprise core exam as the prerequisites.

Now you know all the new Cisco CCNA, CCNP, CCIE certification exams, their new codes, and new versions.


Cisco has made passing its certification exams, even more, easier through these changes. Now you can directly attempt any Cisco exam as none of them have any prerequisites.

So start preparing for Cisco certification exams by today. Cisco certification changes will bring new era in networking field with more interesting and exciting job roles with increased demand.

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