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How easily achieve CCNP/CCIE Enterprise certification

When begging of this year, goodbye to traditional Cisco certifications and say hello to the new curriculum which contains new and improved certification track on February 24, 2020. In the IT networking and telecommunication industry, Cisco is one of the best-respected certification achievements. Today we discuss CCNP enterprise which is going to be replaced by CCNP routing and switching after its retirement. CCNP enterprise syllabus aligns with the current job market and latest cisco technologies such as SDWAN and network automation. When following the new curriculum, you may realize how the certification is job oriented and the content will help network engineers to gain the latest meaningful industrial knowledge about their network infrastructure.


To achiever CCNP enterprise certification, there will no longer have formal prerequisites. If you have the required knowledge and a good understanding of the course content, you can take the CCNP exam without acquiring the CCNA certification. When you go through the Cisco website, you have easily navigated to the certification page and surf the certification levels. As I mentioned earlier, we focus on CCNP enterprise in this article. If we get satisfying feedback, we will keep posted regards to other certifications as well. Now you may search the professional-level certification and you may have an idea about required exams to achieve the CCNP enterprise certification. Let’s talk about Cisco enterprise core exam or 350-401 ENCOR (Implementing and Operating Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies) and why it is the most important exam within the Cisco certification portfolio 2020.

When going to start studying for a certification, as a practice we are looking for study materials such as Cisco press certification guide, CBT nuggets videos, YouTube lessons, and other eBooks. However, as we all new to CCNP enterprise, I couldn’t find a website that explains more about the Cisco press certification guide book. When I searched the PDF in Google, most resulted in a website directed to download CCNP and CCIE Enterprise Core ENCOR 350-401 Cert Guide edition. Hold on, we require only CCNP, not CCIE. However, resulting PDFs are titled as CCNP/CCIE and also the book cover page has designed as CCNP and CCIE Enterprise core.  You may also have a double about this, hence let’s have a look into this deeper and find the best solution.

What is Cisco ENCORE/ CCNP or CCIE Enterprise certification exam?
  • ENCORE exam consists of six major topics (Architecture, Virtualization, Automation, Infrastructure, Network Assurance, and Security). 
  • ENCORE can satisfy triple certifications as CCNP Core, CCIE Infrastructure Lab and CCIE Wireless Lab qualification exams.
  • ENCORE is the mandatory exam in the CCNP enterprise certification track. You should have to pass one of the professional concentration exam (ENARSI, ENSDWI, ENSLD, etc.) in addition to ENCORE to achiever CCNP enterprise certificate.
  • ENCORE exam duration is 120 minutes that costs $400 (USD) per attempt. Each successful attempt at ENCORE will recertify your CCNP for three years.
  • Each successful attempt at ENCORE plus any one of the concentration professional exams will recertify your CCIE enterprise for three years.
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