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Cisco CCNP Cloud Certification

Cisco Certified Network Professional Cloud validates the advance knowledge and skills required to design, implement, provision and troubleshoot Cisco cloud and inter-cloud solutions. Cloud skills will be a key requirement for the workforce of the future and it is recommended that cloud professionals have 5-7 years' experience working in a data center or cloud network environment.

Cisco Certified Network Professional Cloud certification

Last day to test: February 23, 2020

Available February 24, 2020:

Updates to the Cisco Professional certification and training program    On February 24, 2020, Cisco will release new certification exams. New training will roll out over the next several months.  In the new program, CCNP Cloud certification will be integrated into the CCNP Data Center certification. If you have started working toward the current CCNP Cloud certification, then keep going. If you gain your CCNP Cloud certification before February 24, then you will automatically be given the new CCNP Data Center Certification plus 2 Specialist Certifications. IF you do not complete before the February 24, 2020 then you will receive credit for work you’ve already completed.

The CCNP Cloud certification is a lab based training and certification program that targets Cloud engineers, Cloud Administrators, Cloud Designers, and architects working in data centers. Cloud adoption is driving new roles and responsibilities and cloud engineers need the skills to work with private, public and hybrid cloud models.

This program delivers the knowledge and skills necessary to design, provision, automate and manage Cloud and Infrastructure-as-a-Service deployments.

Prerequisites:

A valid CCNA Cloud certification or any CCIE Certification

Exams and Recommended Training

Required Exams Recommended Training

300-460 CLDINF

 Implementing and Troubleshooting the Cisco Cloud Infrastructure (CLDINF)
300-465 CLDDES Designing the Cisco Cloud (CLDDES)
300-470 CLDAUT Automating the Cisco Enterprise Cloud (CLDAUT)
300-475 CLDACI Building the Cisco Cloud with Application Centric Infrastructure (CLDACI)

Recertification

Cisco Professional-level certifications (CCDP, CCNP Cloud, CCNP Collaboration, CCNP Data Center, CCNP Routing and Switching, CCNP Security, CCNP Service Provider, and CCNP Wireless) are valid for three years.To recertify, pass ONE of the following before the certification expiration date:

  • Pass any current 642-XXX Professional-level or any 300-XXX Professional-level exam, or
  • Pass any current CCIE Written Exam, or
  • Pass the current CCDE Written Exam OR current CCDE Practical Exam, or
  • Pass the Cisco Certified Architect (CCAr) interview AND the CCAr board review to extend lower certifications
  • Achieving or recertifying any of the certifications above automatically extends your active Associate and Professional level certification(s) up to the point of expiration of the last certification achieved.

When using a higher level of certification to extend other certifications, the expiration date of other certifications will extend to the expiration date of the higher certification (i.e.: If you have one year left on your CCNA certification and you earn a CCIE certification (which has a two-year certification life) then both your CCIE certification and your CCNA certification will expire two years from the date you achieved the CCIE certification).