Cisco DevNet Expert Certification | Become an expert in network automation

cisco has just announced a new certification and it's actually one that they hinted at two years ago hi my name is rich welcome to the ridgetech guy channel and in this video i'm going to go over the cisco's latest certification announcement so back in cisco live of 2019 cisco announced two new certifications or actually a whole new certification path developed around network automation and the first of those two certifications was the uh the basics of networking and automation and that was the devnet associate which is very similar to the ccna just as i said for network and automation standpoint the other certification they brought in was a more deeper dive into the curriculum and allowing every anybody who's seeking that cert to go to a specialization and that would be the devnet professional certification and that is in a way similar to the cisco ccnp now if you want any more information on those certifications i actually did a video about them and you can check it out up here or i'll link it in the description below so back in 2019 when the devnet associate and the devnet professional certs were announced then there was another certification level mentioned which was tagged with the words future offering and now here we are a little over two years later and cisco has announced the devnet expert certification which is a network automation equivalent to the coveted ccie certification so how do you get this devnet expert cert well for starters if in these past couple of years you've earned the devnet professional certification you've already achieved step one so step one is getting the devnet core exam passed and that is the the same devnet core exam for the devnet professional cert okay so you've got your devnet professional certification or you've passed the devnet core exam and you want to move on to step two what's that well step two of the devnet expert certification is a eight hour practical lab exam now this lab exam goes live on may may 2nd 2022 so there's no taking this exam prior to that and there will be no devnet experts prior to that day obviously but what this exam covers is it's an eight-hour practical hands-on exam and it is designed to test your ability to plan design develop test maintain and deploy a software solution to your network automation environment so the lab exam much like the ccie lab exam of the current iteration of the cci lab exam is broken up into two modules the first module for the devnet lab exam will be the design module and in this module it lasts about three hours and you will be presented with scenarios and some documentation related to those scenarios and from that you are going to have to assess the situation that is going on and answer some web-based questions regarding that after you've completed that first module you then move on to the second module which is the design develop deploy and maintain module and that one is going to last rough it's going to last five hours and in order to complete this module you will have to write some code based off of some requirements and design specifications around a particular solution there will also be a maintained section of that which you will have to look at what is going on and you may have to deploy some new code to maintain the current network automation infrastructure or you may have to look at existing code and make modifications to that code in order to maintain that infrastructure so how do you pass the lab exam well in order to pass the exam you need to achieve three scores there is going to be your score for module one which there will be a minimum passing score for that and then there's going to be a minimum passing score for module two and then there will be a cumulative overall score of which you will have to achieve a minimum passing level there as well so in order to pass the exam you have to have a passing score on both module one module two and an overall passing score so if for some reason that let's say you just barely get past module one and you just barely get passed on module two but you may not necessarily have enough of a points value or score in order to clear the overall passing score on the other hand if you just barely miss one of the modules but you really did well on the other module then maybe you actually have enough to pass the overall score but because you failed one of the modules you will not pass the exam so you need to have a very firm passing score on each of the modules in order to also achieve the overall passing score now i'm certain there's going to be a comment uh there about well what are these scores well cisco doesn't publish that information and the only people who are going to know that are the people managing the devnet expert lab and the really the way to just look at it is for these expert level certifications the bar is set really high and there's very little room for error so as you are studying for that and as you are planning for that be aware that you need to have that expert level knowledge in order to achieve the passing score in all three areas another question i see out there is when people pass the devnet expert certification will they get a number like the ccie and i haven't really found anything in the cisco announcement about this but my guess would be yes now i don't know if this would be following along with the ccie numbers if this would just be another that you get the number just like you would a ccie and when and that would be a devnet expert as opposed to say a ccie enterprise or a ccie data center or it could be a completely different numbering system such as the ccde numbering but in order to achieve this expert level of certification cisco absolutely does want to recognize these individuals and in doing so there i there absolutely must be a numbering system in place to recognize and allow the devnet experts to identify themselves in the manner similar to how a ccie can identify themselves through their number all right so whether you're just starting your network automation journey or you are already down the path i'm going to give you a little recommendation here and that would be this book right here network programmability and automation fundamentals this whether as i said whether you're getting started this is a great book for you to learn on or even if you're down the journey this is great reference material as this covers topics around linux it covers python it covers handling the transport protocols it covers uh encoding methods uh modeling your applications this is a wealth of knowledge and this is a very good tool for you to have as you are pursuing your your network automation journey and i'm actually going to post a link to this book below uh we'll just simply call out it is an affiliate link so bear that in mind if you choose to to buy it either through the link or do your own search for this book but i absolutely recommend this as a great book for any thing you are doing regarding network automation so with that i i hope i've explained the devnet certification that the expert certification well with this video i do still have some more aci content planned i've also got some vxlan content planned and if there's anything else that you guys are looking for for me to cover please go ahead and comment down below absolutely looking for new video ideas i've i've got a project in mind here about building out a kubernetes cluster so i will be getting to that soon as well and with that guys everybody just please keep learning keep improving keep studying thank you very much you

Channel: RichTechGuy

Views: 380

Keywords: DevNet, CCNA, CCNP, CCIE, DevNet Associate, DevNet Professional, DevNet Expert, Python, Network Automation

Id: mEBk1Lg6zoc

Length: 10min 9sec (609 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 22 2021