A Cisco exam with no router in it. 810-110 puts 40 percent of its marks on development workflows and agents, asks for MCP primitives by name, and costs 150 USD for an hour. What each of the six sections expects.
The number stayed the same and almost everything behind it changed. Six sections became five, signalling halved, and gateway work now carries 30 percent of the paper on its own.
In a traditional network you configure a port. In ACI the port learns what to do from the policy attached to an endpoint group, and every hard question on this exam follows from that inversion.
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.
