Take new CCENT exam and can go for CCNA voice afterwards

beach5563beach5563 Member Posts: 344 ■■■□□□□□□□
I just want to make sure I have that correct. I guess with all of the new material they are adding to it they should just name it CCNA anyway LOL. I just want to make sure I understand it correctly.

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  • swildswild Member Posts: 828
    all the requirements say is a current CCENT cert, so you could actually take the retiring 640-822 ICND1 and get your CCENT and then move to Voice if you so desired.
  • NetworkVeteranNetworkVeteran Member Posts: 2,338 ■■■■■■■■□□
    beach5563 wrote: »
    I just want to make sure I have that correct. I guess with all of the new material they are adding to it they should just name it CCNA anyway LOL. I just want to make sure I understand it correctly.

    Juniper's levels are Associate - Specialist - Professional - Expect. Cisco's switched to a four-level model like Juniper, but gone with Technician - Associate - Professional - Expert. I agree this switch will cause some confusion. But not too much, since most hiring managers have either never heard or the CCENT or pretend they've never heard of the CCENT. ;)

    If you hold either any CCENT or CCNA R&S, you can go directly to CCNA Voice. I would consider staying within the "spirit" of the law, however, and either get a new-CCENT or CCNA before tackling a specialty track. Otherwise, your general networking knowledge may be less than needed to ace the specialty track, or weaker than hiring companies would expect for such an applicant.
  • d6bmgd6bmg Member Posts: 242 ■■■□□□□□□□
    beach5563 wrote: »
    I just want to make sure I have that correct. I guess with all of the new material they are adding to it they should just name it CCNA anyway LOL. I just want to make sure I understand it correctly.

    They are just improving their standard, that's all.
    [ ]CCDA; [ ] CCNA Security
  • beach5563beach5563 Member Posts: 344 ■■■□□□□□□□
    Thanks so much guys, I was really planning on completing the new CCENT and start on the Voice track and going from there.
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