CCNP 2010 updates
The exams are listed below:
642-901 BSCI; replaced by 642-902 ROUTE
642-812 BCMSN; replaced by 642-813 SWITCH
642-832 TSHOOT
642-825 ISCW; no replacement
642-845 ONT; no replacement
642-892 Composite; no replacement
Q:
Interesting. So the current path is still valid for about 15 months. I wonder when new resources will start to surface for the new exams…
Interesting. I think this is cool. I already have the CBT nuggets for the current exam series so hopefully some good material will come out for the tshoot exam. Nice way to save time/money.
Q:
Whoa, a troubleshoot-exam! That is great
Lil lame I just ordered the Cisco CCNP official certiciation library… Well, it is still going to be useful, of course!
Q:
“The four existing CCNP certification exams will be available to the general public through June 30, 2010″
just got my CCNA and started studying for CCNP, damn i have to hurry up
Any info on what actually will be different on route and switch exams? i mean, routing protocols havent changed much in recent years afaik…
Q:
Oh, yikes! The end of 2010 is just for net academy students. Maybe I’ll try to do BSCI and BCMSN by then and then do the troubleshooting later in the year…
Q:
This is pretty interesting. It’s nice that they are keeping BSCI and BCMSN valid even after the transition.
Q:
Nice! Now you can do it in just three tests (once the new ones are released). I wonder if this means they will be increasing the cost of the tests?
I was contemplating doing ONT before BSCI. This news makes that a definite no.
Q:
I’m not crazy about them removing ONT and ISCW. Unless they put some of that material in the other exams, they’re going to end up with very narrowly focused CCNPs.
Q:
I doubt there is less material in the new curriculim. The old BCMSN (642-811) had a lot of QoS material that was moved to ONT. It only seems logical they would put it back.
This is what I think they could be doing:
BSCI (troubleshoting) > TSHOOT
BCMSN (troubleshoting) > TSHOOT
ONT (troubleshoting) > TSHOOT
ISCW (troubleshoting) > TSHOOT
BSCI > ROUTE
ISCW > ROUTE
BCMSN > SWITCH
ONT > SWITCH
Q:
I agree. I think the CCNP was very well rounded (even though I HATED the wireless crap). If they take out a lot of the security and QoS stuff the CCNP starts to really drop in value as a real world certification IMO. I guess we will see when the exam objectives come out, but so far I’m thinking this is a bad move. I do like the TSHOOT exam though.
Q:
Nice post, I was going down this road but not ready to do the exams that quickly. I’ll wait for the updated materials while still looking for an entry level networking job.
Q:
Yea, the addition of a troubleshooting exam is great.
If they do move the material to other exams I would be ok with it. Though, somethings just don’t have a logical place, like where do you put VPNs, ROUTE or SWITCH or what? QoS also, unless they do L2 QoS on SWITCH and L3 QoS on ROUTE. I’m interested to see the blueprints.
Q:
The troubleshooting exam sounds interesting. That might be a viable option for me renewing my Cisco stuff down the road.
Q:
BSCI and/or BCMSN would be safe exams to work on, as long as you can finish by the cut-off date.
Q:
yeah i agree, it would be interesting to see actual objectives for new exams, i guess we have to wait for cisco’s official announcment which should arrive soon. But i already just started working on BCSI and i have no intentions to stop. Routing protocols havent changed in recent years so its pretty safe to study OSPF, EIGRP, BGP etc.
besides, i think that even after the cut-off date BCSI and BCMSN will be valid for counting towards new CCNP (for some time). im pretty confident i can pass BCSI and BCMSN before july 2010 so i might do BCSI, BCMSN and TSHOOT to get CCNP. will see… cisco’s official announcment should answer all those questions.
Related Posts
- Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks(BSCI)
- Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks (BCMSN)
- Composite Exam
- Cisco Internetwork Troubleshooting (CIT)
- Optimizing Converged Cisco Networks
Tags: CCNP
November 16th, 2009 at 05:00
[...] this it CCNP 2010 updates [...]