CCIE Service Provider certification proves your skills with complex service provider solutions. To earn CCIE Service Provider certification, you pass two exams: a qualifying exam that covers core service provider technologies, and a hands-on lab exam that covers service provider technologies through the entire network lifecycle, from designing and deploying to operating and optimizing.
Step 1: Pass the qualifying exam
Implementing and Operating Cisco Service Provider Network Core Technologies (SPCOR 350-501)
The qualifying exam, Implementing and Operating Cisco Service Provider Network Core Technologies, focuses on your knowledge of service provider infrastructure.
The qualifying exam earns a specialist certification, so you can get recognized for your accomplishments along the way.
Recommended training: Implementing and Operating Cisco Service Provider Network Core Technologies (SPCOR)
Step 2: Pass the lab exam
CCIE Service Provider v4.0
Last date to test: April 26, 2020
The CCIE Service Provider lab exam is an 8-hour hands-on exam, which requires a candidate to configure, optimize, diagnose, and troubleshoot a series of complex network scenarios for a given specification based on dual stack solutions (IPv4 and IPv6).
CCIE Service Provider v5.0
First date to test: April 27, 2020
This 8-hour hands-on lab exam covers the end-to-end lifecycle of complex service provider networks, from designing and deploying to operating and optimizing.
