Cisco Certifications Provides you with Expertise for Modern IT Careers.
Systematic study deepens your understanding of the field and our award-winning Project 525 provides a structured pathway for disciplined learning, repeated practice, and skill mastery, enabling individuals to perform tasks more effectively and efficiently.
Combining the core skills required to achieve a CCNP certification with fundamental knowledge designed to improve your overall understanding of the technology, our program integrates self-study, mentoring, hands-on labs, and bootcamps to prepare you for success in both the Core and Elective exams that contribute to the certification.
Benefits of Project 525
Self-study
Set a schedule that enables you to balance your learning with other commitments and tailor your learning to focus on areas where you need improvement.
Mentoring
Mentors provide real-world perspectives helping you navigate challenges and avoid common pitfalls while accelerating your learning through personalised feedback and hands-on coaching, encouraging and reassuring you throughout your learning.
Technical labs
Provide disciplined and repeated practice—with the structure to help you deeply ingrain a skill set, and perform tasks more effectively and efficiently.
Bootcamps
Provide hands-on experience that enhances understanding of theoretical knowledge by allowing practical application with real tools and technologies, develop critical skills, encourage problem-solving, and provide immediate feedback.
CCNP Program Tracks
Enterprise Infrastructure
Tests your skills in the ever-changing landscape of enterprise network technologies.
Service Provider
Validates your ability to configure, verify, and optimize next-gen service provider IP infrastructures.
Security
Proves you can protect networks and data in diverse security environments.
Data Center
Proves that you can run the data centers of today and tomorrow.
Collaboration
Proves you have what it takes to build solutions that empower evolving collaboration technologies.
DevNet Professional
Showcases the skills to develop and maintain secure, scalable apps on Cisco platforms.
CyberOps Professional
Elevates your skills to address nuanced security operations challenges.
525 CCNP — Cohort Launch 2026
| Track | Subtrack | Cohort Launch Dates for 2026 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise Infrastructure | Advanced Routing & Services (ENARSI) | 27-Jan-26 | 16-Apr-26 | 7-Jul-26 | 5-Oct-26 |
| Software-Defined WAN (SDWAN) | 27-Jan-26 | 7-Apr-26 | 7-Jul-26 | 5-Oct-26 | |
| Wireless Networking (ENWLSD) | 27-Jan-26 | 7-Apr-26 | 7-Jul-26 | 5-Oct-26 | |
| Service Provider | 27-Jan-26 | 7-Apr-26 | 7-Jul-26 | 5-Oct-26 | |
| Security | 27-Jan-26 | 3-Apr-26 | 7-Jul-26 | 5-Oct-26 | |
| Data Center | 27-Jan-26 | 7-Apr-26 | 7-Jul-26 | 5-Oct-26 | |
| Collaboration | 27-Jan-26 | 7-Apr-26 | 7-Jul-26 | 5-Oct-26 | |
| DevNet Professional | 27-Jan-26 | 7-Apr-26 | 7-Jul-26 | 5-Oct-26 | |
| CyberOps Professional | 27-Jan-26 | 7-Apr-26 | 7-Jul-26 | 5-Oct-26 | |
525 CCNP — Cohort Launch 2026
The above dates are subject to change
