Is it a hen? Is it a aircraft? No, it’s the most recent certifications from Cisco Studying and Certifications! That’s proper, I’m completely happy to share some particulars on the three latest Cisco Specialist certifications with you all. And all three relate to that subject that continues to be on the minds of each engineer, IT chief, and firm—the CLOUD!
Each hero deserves an origin story…
Cloud is clearly an necessary subject for us all within the IT world at the moment, and we knew that cloud-related certifications belonged within the Studying and Certifications portfolio of tech profession certifications. However we needed to do them proper.
Be a part of me on a brief little journey again in time, if you’ll.
It was June 2022, and I used to be in Las Vegas for Cisco Reside. It was a wonderful occasion, after all, nevertheless it was additionally the primary time in a very long time that we’d been capable of get collectively as a Studying and Certifications workforce in individual. One night as a workforce dinner was ending up, I discovered myself sitting with Par Merat, VP of Studying and Certifications, and Joe Clarke, Distinguished Engineer extraordinaire for Studying and Certification.
We began speaking about what ought to come subsequent for certifications from Cisco (a subject that we speak about rather a lot.. certs don’t stand nonetheless), and Cloud, after all, got here up. After brainstorming some concepts, a theme began to kind. We needed to verify any new cloud certification focused features of the cloud that Cisco and Cisco Licensed engineers had vital roles to play. We additionally realized {that a} single all-encompassing “Cisco Cloud Certification” wasn’t sensible. Cloud is simply too large and broad a subject. The concept of use case focused concentrations got here up, a certification that instantly aligned to the sorts of tasks that our neighborhood was being requested to do each day.
For instance, I introduced up one thing I’d heard so many community engineers speak about engaged on for his or her firms. They had been being requested to attach their company community WANs to the general public cloud networks in a means that provided consistency in design, engineering, and operations. They wanted to combine the cloud networks into the company networks and didn’t simply need to “bolt it on.” So I floated an thought for a “Safe Cloud Connectivity” certification that targeted on this downside and the Cisco expertise and options that might assist resolve this downside at the moment.
The concept resonated, and it will definitely turned “Designing and Implementing Cloud Connectivity,” the primary of the three Multi-Cloud Certifications that got here out of this idea.
Deliver out the certs!!!!
This brings us again to at the moment, and I’m so proud of the strategy we took for these certifications and the three new Skilled-level specializations that we’ve launched.
The primary one introduced was the already launched “Designing and Implementing Cloud Connectivity” certification. This certification is a part of the Enterprise Skilled observe and covers the structure, expertise, and operation of the safe community interconnections between private and non-private clouds utilizing Cisco applied sciences. What is basically thrilling to me about this certification is that it acknowledges that there are a number of potential methods to construct community bridges between clouds and that community engineers should steadiness the enterprise and technical necessities of their enterprise when evaluating and choosing what is true for a challenge.
If you’re an enterprise community skilled managing the connections to the general public cloud, it is a certification it’s best to positively take a look at. The primary date to check is September twentieth, 2023 – which is nearly right here! As a focus examination within the Enterprise observe, it may be mixed with a cross on the “Implementing Cisco Enterprise Community Core Applied sciences” (ENCOR) examination to earn your CCNP Enterprise certification.
The second new cloud certification is “Designing and Implementing Safe Cloud Entry for Customers and Endpoints” which lives within the Safety Skilled observe and has what is likely to be the good sounding acronym of all of our certifications, “SCATZ”. With SCATZ, we needed to focus on the change in how enterprises are offering customers entry to functions and knowledge.
Once I first began at Cisco about 13 years in the past, practically each utility, inner web site, wiki, knowledge share, or instrument I wanted to do my job required that I set up a VPN into Cisco’s community. This was to make sure that solely licensed customers accessed the necessary programs inside Cisco’s company community. Right this moment that’s not the case. There are only a few instances that I’ve to open up AnyConnect and connect with Cisco’s VPN community anymore. That doesn’t imply that Cisco isn’t frightened about safety, fairly the alternative, Cisco is hyper-aware of safety. However we’re additionally very targeted on consumer expertise and making programs simply and constantly obtainable. With updates in our safety portfolio from Duo, Umbrella, Firepower, and Safe Analytics, we are able to now present constant and efficient safety to Cisco’s international and really hybrid workforce with out forcing every of us to be tethered to a VPN connection always.
The SCATZ focus examination evaluates safety professionals’ capability to design and implement some of these options for their very own enterprises. It’s a implausible addition to the safety focus choices for candidates trying to earn their CCNP Safety after passing the “Implementing and Working Cisco Safety Core Applied sciences” (SCOR) examination. The primary date to sit down for SCATZ is November 20, 2023.
The final of the three cloud certifications is “Designing and Implementing Cisco Service Supplier Cloud Community Infrastructure” as a result of as cool as it’s to devour cloud companies, somebody nonetheless has to construct it. In any case, the perfect definition of “the cloud” is “another person’s pc”. Whereas this certification is within the Service Supplier Skilled observe, I feel it’s value a glance by any enterprise or knowledge middle skilled constructing non-public cloud as properly. It explores all of the virtualization, automation, and constructing infrastructure at scale subjects which can be key to providing sturdy, on-demand cloud companies to fulfill the ever-increasing consumer expectations. It’s also stuffed with some very cool community applied sciences that make me need to hearth up Cisco Modeling Labs and begin labing to organize to take the examination. And I’ve nonetheless acquired time to organize, the primary date to check for this certification isn’t till January 20, 2024.
What about coaching?
What would a Cisco certification be with out coaching lessons and supplies to assist candidates get ready? Nicely, it in all probability wouldn’t be a Cisco certification in any respect. 🙂
Our coaching content material growth workforce has been exhausting at work constructing new Cisco U Studying Paths and Teacher Lead coaching programs to assist candidates study all of the ins and outs of those thrilling cloud use instances and prepare to take and cross these new exams. These coaching lessons will embody the identical high-quality hands-on lab expertise that you simply’ve come to count on from official Cisco Studying content material. Simply get a take a look at this topology that might be a part of the “Designing and Implementing Cloud Connectivity” course.
The lessons are in growth now, so keep tuned for particulars on after they’ll be obtainable to Cisco U subscribers to dive into. And positively ask your favourite Cisco Studying Associate after they plan to start providing the brand new lessons. Even with the supply of a lot on-demand technical coaching content material, I nonetheless love the chance to work with an knowledgeable teacher and find out how one thing works. The non-scripted elements of the educational and having the ability to ask questions and dive down some technical threads in school are so precious.
Nicely, that’s about it for now. I hope you might be as enthusiastic about these new cloud certifications as we’re. Which one are you occupied with taking first? Are you already finding out and need to be one of many first to earn the brand new specialization? Let me know within the feedback!
Sources
Examination subject blueprints
Designing and Implementing Cloud Connectivity v1.0 (ENCC 300-440)
Designing and Implementing Safe Cloud Entry for Customers and Endpoints v1.0 (SCAZT 300-740)
Designing and Implementing Cisco Service Supplier Cloud Community Infrastructure (SPCNI 300-540)
Neighborhood areas
Enterprise Networking Certifications Neighborhood
Safety Certifications Neighborhood
Urged studying supplies that help the examination subjects
Cisco U. coaching sources
Understanding Cisco Hybrid Cloud Fundamentals (CLDHCF 1.0)
Foundations of Cloud Companies and Cloud Computing
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