Make it your time to shine with a Specialist certification. Add breadth or depth to any IT skill set and show the world you have what it takes to address the toughest challenges that come your way.
Take your IT career to the next level in the way that works for you. Earn a Specialist certification on your way to Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) and Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or customize your specializations to your career focus.
Capitalize on the complexity of tech advances by earning Specialist certifications in multiple areas that complement one another. Add specialized skills to your resume and become the one-of-a-kind problem solver for any team.
In a fast-paced IT landscape, prove you have the advanced knowledge to lead the way. Don’t just keep the pace, set it. Be the go-to expert who has the know-how to implement the most effective and efficient IT solution in your area of expertise.
Every Specialist certification is also part of one or more professional or expert certifications. So, when you pass a Specialist exam, you’ve already taken the first step in your professional or expert journey.
Meet the challenges of today and tomorrow to build and maintain secure infrastructures that boost productivity for a worldwide workforce.
Certify your knowledge of implementing core collaboration technologies, including infrastructure and design, protocols, and endpoints, Cisco IOS XE gateway and media resources, Call Control, quality of service, and collaboration applications.
Demonstrate your mastery of collaboration applications, including single sign-on, Cisco Unified IM and Presence, Cisco Unity Connection, Cisco Unity Express, and application clients.
Test your knowledge of advanced call control and mobility services, including signaling and media protocols, Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express/Cisco Unified Survivable Remote Site Telephony (CME/SRST) gateway technologies, Cisco Unified Board Element, and more.
Certify your knowledge of collaboration cloud and edge solutions, expressway configurations, Cisco Webex Apps hybrid, and emerging technologies.
Prove you can implement applications that automate and extend Cisco collaboration platforms, including programming concepts, APIs and automation protocols, and Python programming.
As the cybersecurity field grows, companies of all sizes need experts to design and run their security operations. From attack prevention to daily threat monitoring, there’s a role for every career goal. Become your organization’s greatest security asset — we’ll show you how.
Certify your knowledge of core cybersecurity operations, including cybersecurity fundamentals, techniques, processes, and automation.
Show your knowledge of forensic analysis and incident response fundamentals, techniques, and processes.
Demonstrate your expertise in threat hunting and defending, including threat modeling techniques, threat actor attribution techniques, and threat hunting techniques, processes, and outcomes.
Technology advances generate more data than ever before. Optimize the applications and infrastructure that connect what matters most to any business — its people, systems, and data.
Certify that you know how to implement core data center technologies including network, compute, storage, automation, and security.
Demonstrate your mastery of design and deployment options for Cisco Data Center solutions and technologies.
Showcase your ability to troubleshoot data center network architecture.
Verify your ability to deploy and manage Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches in Cisco Application Centric Infrastructures.
Validate your ability to integrate Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches in Cisco Application Centric Infrastructures.
Showcase your mastery of automating Cisco Data Center solutions.
Now more than ever, streamlining network operations is a must for any business. Become a vital member of today’s IT with expertise in all phases of network automation.
Certify your knowledge of software development and design, including using APIs, Cisco platforms, application deployment and security, infrastructure, and automation.
Showcase your ability to implement enterprise automated solutions including Python programming, APIs, controllers, and automation tools.
Implement and support automation solutions in service provider network infrastructure, using network programmability principles, protocols, tools, and mechanisms.
Showcase implementation of Cisco Data Center automated solutions, including programming concepts, orchestration, and automation tools.
Demonstrate your ability to design advanced automated security solutions for your network using modern programming concepts.
Showcase your ability to implement Cisco Collaboration automated, programmable solutions for voice, video, and conferencing on-premises or in the cloud.
Automate application deployment, enable automated configuration, and improve scalability of cloud micro-services and infrastructure processes.
The only constant in IT is change — and enterprise network technologies are evolving rapidly. Stay ahead of the curve by proving your skills in maintaining and managing today’s most complex networks.
Verify that you know how to implement core enterprise network technologies, including dual stack (IPv4 and IPv6) architecture, virtualization, infrastructure, network assurance, security, and automation.
Certify that you know how to implement and troubleshoot advanced routing technologies and services including Layer 3, Virtual Private Network (VPN) services. Also verify your skills in infrastructure security, services, and automation.
Test your knowledge of Cisco's Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) operations, management, architecture, policies, Quality of Service (QoS), and security. Learn about SD-WAN solutions, including how to deploy and configure WAN Edge routers, controllers, and multicast.
Certify your knowledge of enterprise design, including Wide-Area Network (WAN), security and network services, and Software-Defined Access (SDA). Also demonstrate your knowledge of advanced addressing and routing solutions, and advanced enterprise campus networks.
Certify your knowledge of wireless network design, including site surveys, wired and wireless infrastructure, mobility, and Wireless Local-Area Network (WLAN) high availability.
Show your knowledge of wireless network implementation, including Cisco FlexConnect, Quality of Service (QoS), multicast, advanced location services, client connectivity security, monitoring, and device hardening.
Showcase your ability to implement enterprise automated solutions including Python programming, APIs, controllers, and automation tools.
Certify that you can design and implement cloud connectivity, including architecture models, IPsec, and Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) solutions.
Demonstrate your knowledge of network assurance design and implementation leveraging platforms and architecture, data collection, implementation, data analysis, insights and alerts.
