Cisco DevNet Certifications: Programming and Automation for Network Engineers

Cisco DevNet Certifications: Programming and Automation for Network Engineers

Corrected by Melik Can Sariyer · on Pass4Sure · 11 July 2026 · View published page ↗

What Cisco DevNet certifications test, who should pursue DevNet Associate vs Professional, the Python requirement, free DevNet sandbox labs, and how DevNet...

The exact change

Before

"The jump from DevNet Associate to Professional is larger than most candidates expect..." - Hank Preston, Cisco Developer Advocate [...] "NETCONF and YANG are the foundation of network programmability..." - Jason Edelman, founder of Network to Code and author of Network Programmability and Automation [...] Data from job postings on LinkedIn and Indeed, cross-referenced with compensation surveys from Network Collective and the NANOG community, represents ranges rather than guarantees.

After

The jump from DevNet Associate to Professional is larger than most candidates expect... [de-attributed] [...] NETCONF and YANG are widely considered the foundation of network programmability... [de-attributed] [...] Data from job postings on LinkedIn and Indeed, cross-referenced with general networking industry salary surveys, represents ranges rather than guarantees.

Suggested change

De-attributed 2 fabricated named-expert quotes to plain prose and softened a misattributed data-sourcing claim.

Why this is better

De-attributed two unverified quotes falsely credited to Hank Preston and Jason Edelman with no verifiable source, and softened a data-sourcing claim that misattributed compensation-survey data to Network Collective and NANOG (not generally known for publishing such surveys). Note: a second, separate unverified quote also credited to Hank Preston later in the same article was found during review but is outside this item's described scope and was left untouched.

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