When you’re planning a visit, preparation is the important thing. The identical goes to your Cisco certification journey; you need info that may enable you to plan—a certification roadmap. You wish to know what to review and whenever you’ll be taking the examination. You additionally wish to know what updates the examination can have and whether or not these updates are aligned with the most recent expertise.
It could be nice to have a recurring timetable that provides you a holistic view of each certification, the updates for these certifications, and an replace and examination schedule that’s primarily based on an everyday cadence, proper? Now, Cisco Certification Roadmaps give you that useful planning software.
Cisco Certification Roadmaps provide a holistic framework that provides you the up to date blueprint and examination info throughout all Cisco certifications. The certification roadmaps are a good way so that you can plan your certification journey—and for Cisco to make sure our up to date materials is related and aligns with expertise shifts and business actions.
By referring to the certification roadmaps, you’ll expertise higher readability and transparency. You’ll obtain well timed info that can assist you align your examine plan with a timeline that displays common examination schedules and updates. And you’ll nonetheless obtain all the knowledge and content material it is advisable cross. You’ll have entry to coaching, studying, and supplies (resembling launch notes and studying matrices for minor and main revisions) that can assist you prep to your certification exams.
Annual replace schedule
Each expertise vertical (as an illustration, Enterprise, Security, Data Center, Collaboration, Service Provider, CCDE, and DevNet) and all associated exams will bear a yearly overview on the identical time every year. Then each expertise observe will likely be up to date on a yearly foundation on the identical time of 12 months.
Here’s how the annual replace schedule works:
- Cisco evaluations every expertise on the identical quarterly schedule every year to verify exams align with the most recent Cisco applied sciences.
- We announce blueprint adjustments 3-6 months prematurely together with revised examination matters and launch notes.
- We publish the up to date examination 3-6 months after the examination blueprint publication.
And we do that on an everyday cadence so you understand when updates will occur with every expertise.
Color-coded cadence
Notice the colour coding for the phrases, overview, announce, and publish within the earlier listing. Then examine these with the colours for every expertise within the following graphic to get an thought of how these colours correspond to the cycle within the upcoming schedule.
You’ll discover that the Aug–Oct 2022 timeframe (which in fact has handed) reveals Data Center and Collaboration as orange, which corresponds with the overview motion in number one. This means we have now already reviewed Data Center and Collaboration. When you see the phrases Data Center and Collaboration once more within the Nov–Jan 2023 timeframe (beneath the road), they’re blue, which implies we’ll announce blueprint adjustments for Data Center and Collaboration someday between November and January 2023, and publish (inexperienced) the up to date examination between February and April 2023 (above the road). The cadence follows this iteration yearly. So you may maintain observe of updates and plan your certification accordingly.
Advanced discover of blueprint revisions
The great thing about a cadence-based overview and replace course of is which you can keep forward of the sport and know when and what to review.
We’ll provide you with a 3-month superior discover for minor revisions and a 6-month superior discover for main revisions on Associate, Professional and Specialist certifications from the time we publish the revised blueprint on the Cisco Learning Network and Cisco web site. As for Expert-level certifications, you’ll get a 6-month superior discover for minor and main revisions.
The solely distinction on this schedule is for CCIE lab exams. All Expert-level certifications will align with the related expertise observe cycle, however adjustments to Expert-level certifications won’t happen yearly, on account of their complexity and longer time interval necessities (resembling upgrades for {hardware} and software program).
Minor vs. main revisions
Certification Roadmaps make the method straightforward to comply with by clearly distinguishing between minor and main revisions. We’ve labeled certification blueprints with model quantity X.Y, the place X represents the main revision, and Y represents the minor revision. Minor revisions are referred to as “dot releases.” For instance, 2.1 or 2.2 (dot launch) refers to a minor blueprint revision with lower than 20% modified, whereas 3.0 refers to a serious blueprint revision with greater than 20% modified.
You’ll not solely know what has modified, however how a lot. We plan to overview every certification examination blueprint on the scheduled cadence and make smaller incremental adjustments (lower than 20%), resembling minor blueprint revisions, if we have to. In instances by which a blueprint has no wanted adjustments, our annual overview cycle will decide whether or not the examination requires adjustments.
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