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CCIE
CCNP
CCNA
Security
Wireless
Collaboration Data Center
Service
Provider
Routing &
Switching
Security
Wireless
Collaboration Data Center
Cloud
Service
Provider
Routing &
Switching
Security
Wireless
Collaboration Data Center
Cloud
Industrial
Cyber
Ops
Service
Provider
Routing &
Switching
Figure I-1
Old Cisco Certification Silo Concepts
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Why so many? Cisco began with one track—Routing and Switching—back in 1998. 
Over time, Cisco identified more and more technology areas that had grown to have 
enough content to justify another set of CCNA and CCNP certifications on those topics, 
so Cisco added more tracks. Many of those also grew to support expert level topics with 
CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert).
In 2019, Cisco consolidated the tracks and moved the topics around quite a bit, as 
shown in Figure I-2.
CCIE
CCNP
CCNA 
Security
Collaboration Data Center
Service Provider
Enterprise
Security
Collaboration Data Center
Service Provider
Enterprise
Figure I-2
New Cisco Certification Tracks and Structure
All the tracks now begin with the content in the one remaining CCNA certification. 
For CCNP, you now have a choice of five technology areas for your next steps, as 
shown in Figure I-2. (Note that Cisco replaced “Routing and Switching” with the term 
“Enterprise.”)
Cisco made the following changes with the 2019 announcements: