Cisco Updating CCSP Exams
4/22/2003 -- Cisco Systems recently announced on its site that it will be updating several of its Cisco Certified Security Professional CCSP exams.
Three of the new exams will go live June 17. The other will debut on October 27. Details on these updates can be found in the chart below:
| Exam Name |
Old Number |
New Number |
Changes* |
Live Date |
| Securing Cisco IOS Networks (SECUR) (formerly MCNS |
640-100 MCNS |
642-501 SECUR |
New topics covered in the SECUR 642-501 exam include the VPN Router Management Center and Enterprise VPN Router management. A second simulation item has also been added. |
June 17, 2003 |
| Cisco Secure PIX Firewall Advanced (CSPFA) |
9E0-111 |
642-521 |
New topics covered in the CSPFA 642-521 exam include the PIX Management Center. |
June 17, 2003 |
| Cisco Secure VPN (CSVPN) |
9E0-121 |
642-511 |
New topics covered in the CSVPN 642-511 exam include the new VPN client 3.6 auto-initiation feature, VPN 3000 series concentrator bandwidth policing and reservation features, and VPN 3002 backup server, load balancing, and reverse route injection features. |
June 17, 2003 |
| Cisco Secure Intrusion Detection Systems (CSIDS) |
9E0-100 |
642-531 |
Unknown. Will be available in beta format (643-531) from July 21 through Aug. 22. |
October 27, 2003* |
*Source: Cisco spokesperson.
According to a Cisco spokesperson, the current versions of the first three exams above will continue to be available through Sept. 30, 2003.
The spokesperson could not say what plans, if any, Cisco has for the title's fifth exam, 9E0-131 Cisco Safe Implementation (CSI).
As far as the new numbers for some of the exams, Cisco Marketing Programs Manager, Internet Learning Solutions Group, Nader Nanjiani said that the numbers have been changed to reflect that passing those exams now count toward CCNA and CCDA recertification. Nanjiani said that eventually virtually all professional and specialty Cisco exams will count toward recertification, but that in the meantime, the 642- moniker is being used to reflect this as new exams roll out.
More information on Cisco's CCSP certification can be found here.  -B.N.
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Current  user Comments for "Cisco Updating CCSP Exams"
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| 4/22/03 - Anonymous says: |
Cisco, Cisco, blah, blah, blah! Who cares anymore? Can't even make mo' money anymore. |
| 4/22/03 - Anonymous says: |
hmmm i still care, their certs are tasty, hah! i'll have this ccsp someday... btw this info has been in the cisco website for quite sometime, dated info! |
| 4/24/03 - Anonymous says: |
where did all the neg comments go? Are you sponsored by Cisco or something |
| 4/24/03 - Anonymous says: |
Cisco is just that good...they get you learn a LOT as long as you STUDY not MEMORIZE. No need to be sponsored although I wouldn't mind. |
| 4/29/03 - Anonymous says: |
Cisco is getting nastier.. Changes. Changes and Changes. While it's good to exercise changes time to time, ensuring updateness... BUT, too sudden and too many change is seen as a money-making scheme. Take for example security CSS-1, before getting any wide recognition it's changed to CCSP Let's ignore cisco cert.. they are not worth as they used to anyway. |
| 5/12/03 - Steve says: |
Technology changes very fast. I feel Cisco is doing the right thing by updating the exams. Cisco is still the benchmark for Certifications and will continue to be so. |
| 5/12/03 - JUDAS says: |
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| 5/15/03 - Anonymous says: |
oh no...wahhh....i have to study again. thank you to you losers who are keeping me working by being some lazyass sob's. |
| 6/10/03 - Anonymous says: |
weeeeeeeeeeeeeee |
| 6/11/03 - Ishwaran says: |
How good is this exam? I saw that it also has some form of simulation in it... is it an exam that really tests the individual or is it possible to be a "paper" CCSP? |
| 6/21/03 - Anonymous says: |
If you think about an exam or certification to be a paper, it always has a chance because people will eventually "share" what they know about the questions pool of the exams to public. Even TestKing has CCIELAB, whether it's accurate or not or whether Cisco always has the same questions for the CCIE, at least they've tried to share the dumps to public and some people must want to try them. It's a never ending discussion and if you think about it all the time, you won't take the exams or won't be happy with what you've got after passing them, because there are "paper cert" people out there...MCSE is known to be a paper cert but hey check the CramSession pool about which cert readers will pursue next, MCSE2003 is the winner...so just do what you gotta do or don't if you don't feel like it. |
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