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CCNP Enterprise Certification

A route from CCNA to CCNP Enterprise: the core exam and a chosen concentration, a virtual lab, advanced routing, switching, wireless, assurance, security and automation, timed practice, booking and recertification.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for CCNP Enterprise Certification, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

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CCNP Enterprise Certification

Moving from CCNA to CCNP Enterprise: the core exam and a concentration exam, advanced routing, wireless and automation, and a lab of real or virtual kit.

  1. CCNP Enterprise blueprints and exam policies folder
  2. Choosing your CCNP Enterprise concentration exam
  3. CCNA to ENCOR gap audit
  4. Baseline ENCOR practice score and lab timing
  5. Virtual lab platform choice, CML, EVE-NG or GNS3
  6. Core ENCOR lab topology build
  7. Dated study plan to the core exam
  8. Study budget and employer sponsorship request
  9. Reading list and lab notes system
  10. Weekly CCNP study blocks
  11. Daily verification command drill
  12. Weekly lab rebuild from a blank configuration
  13. Wrong-answer and lab mistake log
  14. Monthly timed ENCOR practice exam
  15. Weekly study partner session
  16. Lab licence and cloud cost check
  17. Quarterly blueprint and release notes check
  18. OSPF multi-area design and troubleshooting
  19. EIGRP named mode, metrics and stub routing
  20. BGP path selection and attributes lab
  21. Route redistribution and route maps without loops
  22. Spanning tree, MST and EtherChannel at campus scale
  23. First hop redundancy and default gateway design
  24. VRF-lite, GRE and IPsec tunnel labs
  25. Enterprise wireless architecture for ENCOR
  26. SD-WAN and SD-Access architecture concepts
  27. Network assurance tools and evidence gathering
  28. Infrastructure security and device hardening
  29. QoS and multicast fundamentals
  30. Network automation with Python, NETCONF and RESTCONF
  31. Ticket-style troubleshooting method
  32. Readiness decision before booking ENCOR
  33. Test centre or online proctored exam choice
  34. Real switches or virtual images for Layer 2 practice
  35. Retake plan after a failed exam attempt
  36. Booking the ENCOR exam
  37. ENCOR exam week and exam day
  38. Concentration exam preparation sprint
  39. Concentration exam day and certification claim
  40. CCNP on your CV and the pay conversation
  41. CCNP study around NOC and on-call shifts
  42. CCNP plan for working parents
  43. Caribbean candidate plan for CCNP
  44. Server or cloud engineer crossing into enterprise networking
  45. Sitting CCNP exams in a second language
  46. Team lead running a CCNP study cohort
  47. CCNP recertification plan with continuing education
  48. CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure lab readiness assessment
  49. Applying CCNP design to a real network change
  50. Network automation portfolio from CCNP labs

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

CCNP Enterprise blueprints and exam policies folder

Cisco publishes an exam topics blueprint for the core exam and for each concentration exam, and it revises them, sometimes renaming or retiring a concentration altogether. Saving the current blueprints, the certification requirements and the exam policies with the date you checked them means every course, book and lab is judged against the source rather than a forum thread written for an older version.

First tasks

  • Download the current ENCOR exam topics blueprint from the Cisco certification site
  • Save the blueprint for every concentration exam currently listed for CCNP Enterprise
  • Read the exam policies page and note retake waiting periods and ID rules
  • Write down the current fee, duration and validity period with today's date

Choosing your CCNP Enterprise concentration exam

The concentration decides what your CCNP says about you: advanced routing and troubleshooting suits most campus and WAN engineers, while design, wireless, SD-WAN or automation suit narrower roles. Choosing on the basis of the work you do now and the job you want next, rather than whichever exam a friend found easiest, makes the second half of the certification feed straight into your career.

First tasks

  • List each concentration exam with a one-line summary of its blueprint
  • Score each one against your current job, target role and available lab kit
  • Ask your manager or a senior engineer which concentration your team values most
  • Write the chosen concentration and your reasons at the top of the study plan

CCNA to ENCOR gap audit

ENCOR assumes everything in CCNA and then goes wider and deeper: BGP, multicast, QoS, SD-Access, SD-WAN, wireless architecture and automation all appear. Rating yourself against every blueprint line, with one quick lab or recall check for each, shows where the hours should go and stops you spending weeks on OSPF basics you already know while BGP path selection stays a mystery.

First tasks

  • Copy every ENCOR blueprint line into a skills grid grouped by domain
  • Rate each line after a short recall or lab check
  • Flag the topics you have never configured on any device
  • Mark the eight lowest-rated lines as your first study targets

Make it yours.

Install CCNP Enterprise Certification, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Blueprints are general information to help you organise your own work. They are not medical, financial, legal or other professional advice. See the Terms.