CISCO Certification at the Professional Level

Professional certifications are available in seven areas, allowing you to specialize in your area of interest and competence. It is perfect if you want to concentrate your career on a particular subject or technology. You must pass two tests for each certification: one covering core technologies and another with a concentration of your choice.

CCNP Enterprise

CCNP Enterprise is a certification program for business professionals. The CCNP Enterprise certification validates your competence to work with networking technology in larger companies. The 120-minute core exam includes multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions. The six focus assessments are each 90 minutes long.

CCNP Data Center

It is a data center for the CCNP certification program. It tests your knowledge of networking technologies used in data centers. The 120-minute core exam includes multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions, and five focus assessments are each 90 minutes long.

CCNP Security

CCNP is a certification program for security professionals. It validates your ability to work with cybersecurity products and services. The core exam takes 120 minutes to complete. The duration of any of the six focus exams is 90 minutes.

Service Provider of CCNP

Service Provider for the CCNP certification. The CCNP Service Provider certification is for network engineers and specialists, and it assesses your ability to provide Cisco customers with the appropriate networking services. The core exam is 120 minutes long, while the concentration exams are 90 minutes long.

Collaboration CCNP

Collaboration between CCNPs. The CCNP Collaboration certification assesses your ability to use Cisco collaborative tools like phones and video conferencing devices. The core exam is 120 minutes long, and each of the five focus exams is 90 minutes long.

Cisco CyberOps Professional certification. 

The Cisco Certified CyberOps Professional certification verifies your ability to manage and improve cybersecurity for Cisco networking services as a security analyst. A 90-minute concentration exam follows the 120-minute core exam.

Cisco DevNet Certified Professional 

The Cisco Certified DevNet Professional exam assesses your ability to create and maintain software applications that run on Cisco platforms. The core exam takes 120 minutes to complete. Any of the eight concentration assessments you choose will take 90 minutes to complete.

Cisco's three most popular professional credentials are CCNP Enterprise, CCNP Security, and Cisco Certified DevNet Professional.