Cisco Certifications are among the most recognised in the network professional industry and provide a solid foundation for enhancing your job career. Just to get an idea, a Cisco CCIE certified in the US gets an average salary of $110,000 per year.

Cisco has divided its certification areas to General Certifications and Specialist Certifications. The General Certifications are the most well known and are further divided into several certification paths with three Certification Levels on each path. The Three certification levels are the “Associate”, the “Professional”, and the “Expert” level.

The Table below shows all the paths for the General Certification category: 

 In my opinion, from the experience I have with Cisco certifications the most hard certification path is the Network Security path, and consequently the most difficult certification level to obtain is CCIE Security. However, the path with the most demand is the Routing and Switching path since it covers a wide range of networking knowhow.

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