The exam number stayed the same and almost everything behind it changed. 350-901 now carries AUTOCOR version 2.0, the core of Cisco’s Automation track, with Ansible and Terraform alongside RESTCONF and Python, a full Infrastructure as Code domain built on GitLab pipelines, and a fifth of the paper devoted to building AI tooling rather than describing it.
Most blueprints describe capabilities and leave the tooling to you. Cisco does the opposite on 300-215, naming hex editors, disassemblers, deobfuscation utilities and memory forensics tools inside the objectives themselves. That specificity changes how the exam should be studied.
SPCOR is not merely half a CCNP. Pass 350-501 and Cisco awards the Service Provider Core specialist certification immediately, valid for three years. Here is how the five domains are weighted, why networking decides the outcome, and how much segment routing the paper really carries.
All five 400-007 domains have the word design in the title, and 45 percent of the marks sit outside pure network engineering. What a variable cut score means for how you study.
An entry-level Cisco paper that names Wireshark, lists eleven show commands and expects you to check connectivity on five operating systems. And the pass mark is not a fixed number.
The professional wireless track came back after six years, rebuilt around a single core exam that also earns a specialist credential outright.
Enterprise engineers book DCCOR expecting a routing paper with storage attached. Compute carries the same 25% as network, Fibre Channel adds another 20%, and the automation domain now reaches into AI infrastructure.
The 300-220 CBRTHD turns SOC analysts into proactive hunters. See what the exam tests, how its six domains are weighted, and how to build real hunting skill.
A domain-by-domain guide to the Cisco 200-201 CBROPS (CyberOps Associate) exam: security concepts, security monitoring, host-based and network intrusion analysis, and SOC incident response.
A domain-by-domain guide to the Cisco CCNA 200-301 exam: switching, OSPF routing, IP services, security, and automation, plus a lab-first study plan that actually sticks.
