- Review how Cisco CCNP Security validates professional-level skill across security infrastructure, network security, cloud security, secure access, endpoint protection, and enforcement.
- Understand the two-exam certification structure: 350-701 SCOR as the required core exam, plus one current CCNP Security concentration exam.
- Identify how passing SCOR earns the Cisco Certified Specialist - Security Core certification and satisfies the core requirement for CCNP Security.
- Connect core exam preparation to concentration planning across firewalls, ISE, content security, VPN, secure cloud access, and security infrastructure design.
Cisco CCNP Security Core SCOR 350-701 Training Course
Cisco CCNP Security Certification Training Course
Prepare for Cisco CCNP Security by building professional-level security infrastructure capability across network security, cloud security, content security, endpoint protection and detection, secure network access, visibility, enforcement, and concentration exam planning.
Course focus: SCOR 350-701 core exam preparation for CCNP Security, with guided planning for one of the current Cisco CCNP Security concentration exams.
Course Overview
Develop the professional-level Cisco security skills required to protect modern enterprise, cloud, hybrid, and user access environments.
Accumentum’s Cisco CCNP Security Certification Training Course is built around the Cisco CCNP Security core exam: 350-701 SCOR, Implementing and Operating Cisco Security Core Technologies. The course prepares learners to pursue the required core exam while developing practical security infrastructure knowledge for real enterprise environments.
Cisco positions CCNP Security around the ability to protect infrastructure through security concepts, network security, cloud security, content security, endpoint protection and detection, secure network access, visibility, and enforcement. This course organizes those areas into a structured training path for network security engineers, security engineers, infrastructure professionals, and technical teams responsible for securing Cisco environments.
Passing SCOR meets the core exam requirement for CCNP Security and automatically earns the Cisco Certified Specialist - Security Core certification. To earn the full CCNP Security certification, learners must also pass one concentration exam that aligns with their desired security specialty.
This updated landing page also includes the current Cisco concentration options listed for CCNP Security: 300-710 SNCF, 300-715 SISE, 300-720 SESA, 300-725 SWSA, 300-730 SVPN, 300-740 SCAZT, and 300-745 SDSI. Each concentration is presented as its own future Accumentum landing page pathway.
Course Objectives
Build SCOR exam readiness and a strong foundation for the full Cisco CCNP Security certification pathway.
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Implement Core Security Technologies
Develop professional readiness across Cisco security architecture, secure infrastructure, policy enforcement, threat defense, secure access, and security operations concepts.
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Strengthen Network and Cloud Security
Review network security controls, firewalls, VPNs, segmentation, cloud security architecture, hybrid connectivity, secure application access, and infrastructure protection.
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Advance Endpoint and Content Security
Prepare across endpoint protection and detection, web security, email security, malware defense, data loss prevention, authentication, encryption, and traffic inspection concepts.
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Plan the Right Concentration
Compare Cisco firewall, ISE, email, web, VPN, secure cloud access, and security design concentration paths so learners can choose the best specialty after SCOR.
Who Should Attend
- Network security professionals preparing for the Cisco CCNP Security core exam, 350-701 SCOR, and the broader CCNP Security certification pathway.
- Security engineers, network security engineers, systems engineers, network engineers, infrastructure engineers, and technical professionals responsible for protecting Cisco environments.
- Professionals working with firewalls, VPNs, identity services, secure access, cloud security, content security, endpoint protection, visibility, enforcement, or secure network design.
- CCNA-level or experienced technical professionals ready to move into professional-level Cisco security certification and specialist concentration training.
Recommended Readiness
- Cisco lists no formal prerequisites for CCNP Security, but learners often have three to five years of experience implementing security solutions.
- Learners should be comfortable with networking fundamentals, security concepts, routing and switching, IP addressing, access control, VPN fundamentals, and infrastructure troubleshooting.
- Hands-on practice is strongly recommended because SCOR preparation benefits from configuration, validation, troubleshooting, policy interpretation, and operational scenario work.
- This course is designed for learners who want structured preparation for the SCOR core exam before choosing one CCNP Security concentration exam.
Pathway Map
The Cisco CCNP Security training course prepares learners for the professional-level security core and concentration selection.
The curriculum connects the SCOR 350-701 core exam to the full CCNP Security certification path: core security technologies first, followed by a concentration exam that validates a specialized professional focus.
Course Content
Full Cisco CCNP Security SCOR 350-701 curriculum breakout.
- Identify common cyberthreats, vulnerabilities, attack surfaces, and defense models used in enterprise security environments.
- Review encryption, hashing, certificates, VPN fundamentals, identity-based control, access policy, and techniques used to prevent attacks.
- Connect Cisco security concepts to enterprise risk reduction, secure architecture, defense-in-depth, segmentation, and secure operations.
- Develop exam readiness by translating security theory into operational implementation and troubleshooting scenarios.
- Compare network security solutions and understand how firewalls, access controls, IPS/IDS concepts, and segmentation reduce exposure.
- Review secure remote access solutions, site-to-site connectivity, VPN architecture, policy enforcement, and network traffic inspection.
- Strengthen knowledge of security controls for routers, switches, appliances, management planes, and network infrastructure services.
- Connect network security coverage to both the SCOR core exam and firewall or VPN concentration planning.
- Describe cloud service models, hybrid infrastructure patterns, secure cloud connectivity, and the security responsibilities that apply across cloud environments.
- Review user and device security, network and cloud security, application and data security, visibility, assurance, and threat response concepts.
- Connect cloud security topics to secure access, application delivery, identity control, telemetry, and enforcement in distributed environments.
- Prepare learners who may continue into the 300-740 SCAZT secure cloud access concentration path.
- Understand how organizations redirect, inspect, and secure web traffic to protect users and data from malicious content and policy violations.
- Review identity verification, proxy services, decryption policies, access policies, acceptable use controls, malware defense, and data loss prevention.
- Review email security concepts such as spam control, message filters, email authentication, encryption, quarantines, and delivery methods.
- Connect content security coverage to the 300-720 SESA and 300-725 SWSA concentration pathways while reinforcing SCOR exam readiness.
- Review endpoint protection and detection concepts used to identify, prevent, and respond to threats across workstations, servers, and managed devices.
- Connect endpoint telemetry, malware analysis, detection logic, policy enforcement, and response workflows to enterprise security operations.
- Understand how endpoint posture and compliance signals can influence access decisions and segmentation outcomes.
- Prepare to connect endpoint security to Cisco secure access, visibility, enforcement, and incident response concepts tested in the SCOR core exam.
- Develop readiness around identity-based access control, authentication, authorization, policy enforcement, device profiling, and network access controls.
- Review Cisco ISE architecture and deployment concepts, Web Auth and guest services, BYOD, endpoint compliance, and network access device administration.
- Connect secure network access to zero-trust operating models, segmentation, user/device trust, and enterprise access governance.
- Prepare learners who may continue into the 300-715 SISE concentration path for Cisco Identity Services Engine implementation.
- Understand how visibility and telemetry help security teams observe user behavior, network activity, endpoint posture, threat indicators, and control effectiveness.
- Review enforcement workflows that translate security policy into access control, segmentation, inspection, blocking, quarantine, and response decisions.
- Connect monitoring, alerting, logging, and operational validation to real-world security engineering and incident response processes.
- Strengthen the ability to interpret security outcomes and troubleshoot why policies, controls, or access decisions behave as they do.
- Review how automation improves security consistency, response speed, configuration repeatability, and operational control across complex environments.
- Understand API-driven security operations, controller-based management concepts, automation use cases, and workflow-based security administration.
- Connect security architecture design to automation, DevSecOps, event-driven operations, risk management, and emerging AI-aware security requirements.
- Prepare learners who may continue into the 300-745 SDSI security infrastructure design path or broader automation-focused security work.
- Review the official 350-701 SCOR exam purpose, certification alignment, languages, duration, pricing guidance, recertification relevance, and scoring expectations.
- Use structured review sessions to connect each SCOR domain to practical implementation, operations, troubleshooting, security validation, and professional decision-making.
- Compare current concentration options and select the path that best fits a learner’s role, current responsibilities, and career direction.
- Prepare for continued certification maintenance, including Cisco Continuing Education or eligible exam-based renewal before the certification expires.
Choose Your Concentration
After SCOR, choose one CCNP Security concentration to complete the professional certification path.
Cisco’s current CCNP Security pathway includes seven concentration options. Exam availability and retirement timelines can change, so learners should verify current Cisco testing details before scheduling.
300-710 SNCF
Securing Networks with Cisco Firewalls
Focus on Cisco firewall security, firewall deployment and operations, policy management, traffic control, threat defense, and securing networks with Cisco firewall technologies.
300-715 SISEImplementing and Configuring Cisco Identity Services Engine
Focus on Cisco ISE architecture and deployment, policy enforcement, Web Auth and guest services, profiling, BYOD, endpoint compliance, and network access device administration.
300-720 SESASecuring Email with Cisco Secure Email Gateway
Focus on administration, spam control, message filters, data loss prevention, LDAP, email authentication, encryption, quarantines, and secure delivery methods.
300-725 SWSASecuring the Web with Cisco Secure Web Appliance
Focus on proxy services, authentication, decryption policies, differentiated access policies, acceptable use controls, malware defense, and data security.
300-730 SVPNImplementing Secure Solutions with Virtual Private Networks
Focus on secure remote communications with VPN solutions, including secure communications, VPN architectures, implementation considerations, and troubleshooting.
300-740 SCAZTDesigning and Implementing Secure Cloud Access for Users and Endpoints
Focus on cloud security architecture, user and device security, network and cloud security, application and data security, visibility, assurance, and threat response.
300-745 SDSIDesigning Cisco Security Infrastructure
Focus on security architecture design, including secure infrastructure, applications, risk, events, requirements, artificial intelligence, automation, and DevSecOps.
Course Features
Designed for practical CCNP Security SCOR training and professional certification preparation.
SCOR Core Exam Focus
Prepare for the 350-701 SCOR core exam with structured review across network security, cloud security, content security, endpoint protection, secure access, visibility, and enforcement.
Security Infrastructure Readiness
Reinforce Cisco security concepts across firewalls, VPNs, secure network access, identity services, endpoint posture, threat defense, web/email security, and policy enforcement.
Concentration Path Guidance
Compare firewall, ISE, content security, VPN, secure cloud access, and security infrastructure design paths so learners choose a practical specialty after SCOR.
Exam and Career Alignment
Connect SCOR study to real security engineering responsibilities, potential roles, recertification planning, and continuing professional development.
Certification Exam
Prepare for the official Cisco 350-701 SCOR core exam and the full CCNP Security certification path.
CCNP Security SCOR Readiness
Accumentum’s CCNP Security Training Course prepares learners for the 350-701 SCOR core exam while helping them understand how the core exam connects to the concentration exam required for the full CCNP Security certification.
The Cisco 350-701 SCOR exam, Implementing and Operating Cisco Security Core Technologies, meets the core exam requirement for Cisco Certified Network Professional Security. Passing SCOR also earns the Cisco Certified Specialist - Security Core certification.
The SCOR exam tests knowledge of implementing and operating core security technologies, including network security, cloud security, content security, endpoint protection and detection, secure network access, visibility, and enforcement.
Cisco lists SCOR as a 120-minute exam available in English and Japanese. Cisco also lists the professional-level core exam price as $US400, or Cisco Learning Credits, and states that results are pass/fail and available online within 48 hours.
To earn the full CCNP Security certification, learners must pass SCOR plus one current CCNP Security concentration exam of their choice. Cisco currently lists seven concentration options: SNCF, SISE, SESA, SWSA, SVPN, SCAZT, and SDSI.
Frequently Asked Questions
Understand how Accumentum’s Cisco CCNP Security Training Course supports professional-level certification preparation, SCOR 350-701 readiness, concentration planning, and long-term security engineering career development.
CCNP Security is a professional-level Cisco certification focused on security infrastructure, including network security, cloud security, content security, endpoint protection and detection, secure network access, visibility, and enforcement.
This course focuses on the Cisco CCNP Security core exam: 350-701 SCOR, Implementing and Operating Cisco Security Core Technologies.
No. Passing SCOR meets the core exam requirement and earns the Cisco Certified Specialist - Security Core certification. To earn the full CCNP Security certification, learners must also pass one CCNP Security concentration exam.
SCOR covers implementing and operating core security technologies, including network security, cloud security, content security, endpoint protection and detection, secure network access, visibility, and enforcement.
Cisco lists the 350-701 SCOR exam duration as 120 minutes.
Cisco lists no formal prerequisites for CCNP Security, but learners often have three to five years of experience implementing security solutions.
The best concentration depends on your role and goals. SNCF fits firewall security, SISE fits identity services and network access control, SESA fits email security, SWSA fits web security, SVPN fits VPN solutions, SCAZT fits secure cloud access, and SDSI fits security infrastructure design.
Cisco currently lists last-date-to-test notices of August 26, 2026 for 300-720 SESA, 300-725 SWSA, and 300-730 SVPN. Learners should verify current Cisco exam availability before scheduling.
Cisco states that the CCNP Security certification is valid for three years and can be renewed with Continuing Education credits or by retaking eligible exams before expiration.
Cisco identifies potential roles such as security engineer, network security engineer, and security analyst. The certification is also relevant for technical professionals responsible for secure infrastructure, policy enforcement, threat defense, and secure access operations.
The course organizes Cisco’s SCOR core exam objectives into a structured training pathway, reinforces professional-level security infrastructure concepts, and helps learners plan the concentration exam needed to complete the CCNP Security certification.
Enrollment
Enroll in the Cisco CCNP Security SCOR 350-701 Training Course with Accumentum.
Enroll in Accumentum’s Cisco CCNP Security Certification Training Course to prepare for the 350-701 SCOR core exam and strengthen the professional-level security skills required to implement, operate, validate, and troubleshoot Cisco security technologies.
You will gain structured exam-aligned preparation across network security, cloud security, content security, endpoint protection and detection, secure network access, visibility, enforcement, concentration planning, and certification maintenance.
This course is ideal for security professionals preparing for CCNP Security, network engineers expanding into security infrastructure, and technical teams that need deeper Cisco security capability. For course dates, cohort availability, concentration planning, and enrollment support, visit Accumentum’s registration page linked below.
Build professional-level Cisco security capability with CCNP Security SCOR training.
Prepare for the Cisco 350-701 SCOR core exam while building the foundation required for advanced CCNP Security concentration study across firewalls, identity services, content security, VPN, secure cloud access, and security infrastructure design.