While you’re planning a visit, preparation is the important thing. The identical goes in your Cisco certification journey; you need info that may provide help to plan—a certification roadmap. You need to know what to review and whenever you’ll be taking the examination. You additionally need to know what updates the examination may have and whether or not these updates are aligned with the most recent expertise.
It could be nice to have a recurring timetable that gives 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 instrument.
Cisco Certification Roadmaps supply a holistic framework that offers 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 trade actions.
By referring to the certification roadmaps, you’ll expertise larger readability and transparency. You’ll obtain well timed info that can assist you align your research plan with a timeline that displays common examination schedules and updates. And also you’ll nonetheless obtain all the knowledge and content material you must cross. You’ll have entry to coaching, studying, and supplies (corresponding to launch notes and studying matrices for minor and main revisions) that can assist you prep in your certification exams.
Annual replace schedule
Every expertise vertical (as an illustration, Enterprise, Safety, Knowledge Heart, Collaboration, Service Supplier, CCDE, and DevNet) and all associated exams will endure a yearly evaluation on the identical time every year. Then each expertise observe can be up to date on a yearly foundation on the identical time of 12 months.
Right 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 modifications 3-6 months prematurely together with revised examination subjects 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 recognize when updates will occur with every expertise.
Shade-coded cadence
Discover the colour coding for the phrases, evaluation, announce, and publish within the earlier listing. Then evaluate 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 after all has handed) reveals Knowledge Heart and Collaboration as orange, which corresponds with the evaluation motion in no 1. This implies we have now already reviewed Knowledge Heart and Collaboration. While you see the phrases Knowledge Heart and Collaboration once more within the Nov–Jan 2023 timeframe (under the road), they’re blue, which suggests we’ll announce blueprint modifications for Knowledge Heart 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’ll be able to preserve observe of updates and plan your certification accordingly.
Superior discover of blueprint revisions
The great thing about a cadence-based evaluation and replace course of is that you may keep forward of the sport and know when and what to review.
We’ll offer you a 3-month superior discover for minor revisions and a 6-month superior discover for main revisions on Affiliate, Skilled and Specialist certifications from the time we publish the revised blueprint on the Cisco Studying Community and Cisco web site. As for Professional-level certifications, you’ll get a 6-month superior discover for minor and main revisions.
The one distinction on this schedule is for CCIE lab exams. All Professional-level certifications will align with the related expertise observe cycle, however modifications to Professional-level certifications may not happen yearly, on account of their complexity and longer time interval necessities (corresponding to upgrades for {hardware} and software program).
Minor vs. main revisions
Certification Roadmaps make the method straightforward to observe by clearly distinguishing between minor and main revisions. We’ve labeled certification blueprints with model quantity X.Y, the place X represents the most important revision, and Y represents the minor revision. Minor revisions are known 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 evaluation every certification examination blueprint on the scheduled cadence and make smaller incremental modifications (lower than 20%), corresponding to minor blueprint revisions, if we have to. In instances through which a blueprint has no wanted modifications, our annual evaluation cycle will decide whether or not the examination requires modifications.
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