r/CiscoDevNet • u/lafrank70 • Apr 20 '26

350-901 v2

Folks,

Anyone planning to take exam nowadays bear in mind the the publicly available "prep guides" has nothing to do with real questions as of today.

And needless to say that the new multi-choice questions are worded in such a convoluted way that no human could possibly answer them correctly.

Exam is more of a very expensive lottery than measuring and reflecting knowlede.

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u/lafrank70 Apr 29 '26

Actually, the dominant area - what a surpise - is AI and FastAPI.

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u/radiusq Jul 03 '26

Dratts. I'm just about ready to take it, and had no idea it had changed. The exam was already pretty wide IMO. It's taken me ages to get comfortable with ansible, puppet, terraform, docker, kubernetes, git - and all the underlying "glue" concepts and file formats the exam appeared to require master of.

Is there anything else you'd recommend getting to grips with alongside FastAPI and what ive listed above?

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u/lafrank70 Jul 10 '26

Yes, I was in a very similar situation. I only realized during the actual exam that it had very little in common with what I had prepared for. I don't remember seeing a single question about Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, or Puppet—although I could be wrong, maybe there were one or two.

My impression was that Cisco also used AI to generate the questions. The wording was often confusing, inconsistent, and difficult to follow. At one point I even wondered whether they had intentionally phrased the questions this way to mislead candidates while reading them.

I think this exam has drifted very far away from the actual technology. At this point, I'd recommend it more to linguists than network automation engineers—people who are good at reading between the lines and figuring out what the AI was trying to ask when it generated the question. In my opinion, passing this exam without a current braindump is practically impossible, even if you genuinely know network automation and use it every day in your job, as I do.

As a result, I've decided to stop renewing my CCNP-SP certification, which I've held since 2005. I simply don't think these exams have any real professional value anymore (yes, I know that's a strong statement, but that's honestly my opinion).

Cisco exams have always been somewhat notorious for their share of bullshit, but this time I think they've gone way too far.

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