New Exam Release - Cloud Specialist - R81.20 - Promo Code & Exam Retire date notice

[Jason_Tugwell]

We are pleased to announce the release of the following exam:

• Cloud Specialist – R81.20 (CCCS) – Exam #: 156-561

To celebrate this release, the following Cloud Specialist exams are available for 35% off with the promo code: CLOUD35

• Cloud Specialist  (CCCS) – Exam #: 156-560
  • This exam will retire on December 31, 2024
• Cloud Specialist – R81.20 (CCCS) – Exam #: 156-561 New!
• Cloud Network Security Expert – AWS (CNSE-AWS) – Exam #: 156-565
• Cloud Network Security Expert – Azure (CNSE-Azure) – Exam #: 156-566
  • Both CNSE exams will retire on January 31, 2025
  • We have removed the CCCS prerequisite for the CNSE exams

The CLOUD35 promo is valid for Cloud Specialist exams taken by December 31, 2024.

[Alexander_Grois]

Why CNSE-Azure/AWS will retire on January 31, 2025 ?

[Don_Paterson · Accepted solution]

The two courses have been integrated into the new R81.20 CCCS course.

In the R81.20 CCCS course labs (there are A labs and B labs) there are documented instructions to deploy a management server, a Scaling gateway and also Cluster gateways, in both Azure (A labs) and AWS (B labs).

In the old version the course lab instructions only included steps to deploy a single gateway in Azure and a single gateway in AWS.

There was only one management server deployed and that was in Azure. That was the first lab task in the old CCCS course.

The new CCCS R81.20 exam is different to the old version CCCS exam because it covers the new content, which is a combination of mostly CNSE-Azure and CNSE-AWS and some of the older CCCS topics (the ones that remained in the new course).