The CCST certification validates work-ready skills and knowledge for entering and advancing the most in-demand IT fields. Created by a team of subject-matter experts from diverse careers and industries (including Cisco employees, networking and cybersecurity professionals, hiring managers, professors, teachers, and the experts at Certiport) to ensure these certifications are perfect stepping stones for tech career seekers.

50-minute performance-based testing, gives you an experience that best replicates a true lab environment. Through in-app tasks, realistic scenarios, and interactive questions, candidates demonstrate their familiarity with core product features and capabilities, as well as fundamental principle & theory. Successful candidates are expected to have the required knowledge and work-ready skills necessary to launch a career in networking and cybersecurity, through at least 150 hours of instruction.