I haven’t taken any of the newer Core exams but I’d imagine they’re a mile wide and inch deep.
Plus they’re notoriously guilty of trivial pursuit questions.
Did you use Boson practice questions?
Collab is the concentration I’d be looking be most scared in pursuing. Every enterprise needs a voice expert but not sure how long Cisco will be a major player especially with Cloud solutions exploding (though they do have their products in the marketplace).
theres no boson for ccnp collab unfortunately.
I have my foot in both on-prem voice and cloud video/vtc so im thankful for that. while voice is going to the cloud, i dont see all businesses moving there.
the cost of cloud is starting to get too expensive now that every company is moving there.
I think the future for voice will be a hybrid. cloud for smaller businesses, on prem for bigger companies that need a 1%> up time like hospitals, big government agencies, etc.
I know cisco doesnt share what their up time is for webex cloud, but i know for sure its not better than on-prem. and obviously the customization isnt as advance as what you can get in cucm.
few years ago my company moved one of the biggest hospital business in the US from on-prem cisco voip to cisco webex cloud. Just last year they hired us again to move back to on-prem because they werent satisfied with webex cloud calling.
Collab is the concentration I’d be looking be most scared in pursuing. Every enterprise needs a voice expert but not sure how long Cisco will be a major player
agreed. thankfully one of the concentration exams for collab focuses on integrating MS Teams into WebEx so that should also help a bit with diversifying my skills
also shows that cisco is well aware of MS Teams and their presence within the collab world.
right now im working with VTCs that utilizes Cisco hardware for VTC but MS Teams for their software solution so that should help make my resume more diverse.
