CCNP Automation

Teams often cite CCNP Automation when documenting who is trained to make automated, code-driven changes to Cisco networks, such as Ansible playbooks, NETCONF and RESTCONF configuration, and GitLab pipelines. Team reporting provides per-learner progress, completion and completion exports that can support that documentation. Your auditor's control crosswalk decides how the credential maps to any formal framework requirement.

CCNP Automation fits network engineers and architects who are moving routine CLI work into code. The linked courses cover Python, Netmiko, Nornir and Ansible, YANG data models with NETCONF and RESTCONF, Git and GitLab pipelines, Docker Compose, and PyATS testing. A certified team can own configuration templating and change management, automated validation of routing, reachability and IP conflicts, credential handling for automation, and controller-based automation across Cisco Catalyst Center, Meraki and SD-WAN.

CBT Nuggets CCNP Automation courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to Cisco's published exam objectives, the course list on this page says so. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion and exam readiness per engineer — the view managers use to run a team training program.

From the admin console, managers assign the CCNP Automation courses directly to specific engineers or role groups and track completion and practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can review or export for leadership reviews or compliance reporting.

The linked courses for the 350-901 AUTOCOR and 300-435 ENAUTO exams add up to about 74 hours of video. Actual time to certify depends on the team's starting point, including existing Python, Git and Cisco platform experience, and how much time each engineer can set aside for the training.

CBT Nuggets updates Cisco course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When Cisco restructures or renames a track, the assigned training stays aligned with the same team training plan, and the training stays current without anyone losing their progress mid-stream.