Cisco Live 2019 kicked off Monday, and in typical fashion, they dropped some exciting news — a new CCNA!

Designed to prepare professionals for associate-level IT job roles, the new CCNA will validate a broad range of knowledge and skills. The exam covers networking and security fundamentals, as well as automation and programmability.

And yes, you only have to take one exam, the Cisco Certified Network Associate (200-301 CCNA), to earn the new CCNA! Previously, candidates typically had to take multiple exams to earn CCNA certification. The exam is scheduled to go live Feb. 24, 2020.

While there are no prerequisites for the 200-301 exam, Cisco recommends at least one year experience implementing and administering Cisco solutions, knowledge of basic IP addressing, and a solid understanding of networking basics.

The new CCNA will replace the following certifications:

CCNA Cloud
CCNA Collaboration
CCNA Cyber Ops
CCNA Data Center
CCDA
CCNA Industrial
CCNA Routing and Switching
CCNA Security
CCNA Service Provider
CCNA Wireless
With this change, the Cisco certification map will look a lot different than it does right now. Currently, Cisco certifications are arranged by track. You progress from the CCENT to a specialized CCNA, CCNP, and finally CCIE. (Or maybe even the CCAr.)

After February 24, the one CCNA (200-301 CCNA) will cover all networking basics and you specialize at the CCNP level.

There are no formal prerequisites for the CCNP exams, which is another big change. But structurally they remain about the same as before. You are still required to pass a core exam and one of three to eight concentration exams to earn your CCNP.

Here’s the complete list of the CCNPs:

CCNP Enterprise

CCNP Security

CCNP Service Provider

CCNP Collaboration

CCNP Data Center

Cisco Certified DevNet Professional

Passing any of these concentration exams will also earn you the Cisco Certified Specialist title. To become a Cisco Certified Specialist, you can take any exam, except the CCNA (which would make you a CCNA, not a specialist).

There are now six CCIE tracks, and they no longer have dedicated CCIE Written Exams. Instead, you must pass the CCNP core exam and then take the 8-hour lab.

For instance, to earn the CCIE Security you’d have to pass the CCNP Security core exam (SCOR 300-701) and then sit for the 8-hour lab, CCIE Security v6.0. That’s consistent across all the new CCIEs with the exception of CCIE Enterprise.

In the case of the Enterprise track, you now have two options: CCIE Enterprise Wireless and CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure. Both of these tracks adopt the CCNP Enterprise exam (ENCOR 300-401) as their written exam, and then diverge at the lab requirement. They each have a dedicated lab requirement to the track: CCIE Enterprise Wireless v1.0 and CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure v1.0.

complete list of the CCIEs:

CCIE Enterprise Wireless

CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure

CCIE Security

CCIE Service Provider

CCIE Collaboration

CCIE Data Center

Cisco launched a new certification track — DevNet. The DevNet track will combine programming (primarily with Python) and infrastructure.

There will be four levels to the DevNet track:

Cisco Certified DevNet Associate (CCNA-level)

Cisco Certified DevNet Specialist

Cisco Certified DevNet Professional (CCNP-level)

Cisco Certified DevNet Expert (CCIE-level) – Coming soon

These tracks follow the same conventions as the other five tracks. You can either take the associate-level core exam to get certified at the CCNA level, pass one exam to become a Specialist, or take two exams to earn the professional-level certification.