Orientation
Welcome to Base Camp
One mountain. Three camps. Every lesson on this site moves you up it. Here is the map, the gear, and your first step from exactly where you stand.
The Climb, Named
The path you see on the homepage — Base Camp to summit — is Cisco's real certification ladder. Each camp is a credential employers recognise on sight, and this site is built for the two upper camps.
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Camp 1 · Associate
CCNA
Cisco's entry certification: proof you speak networking — IP, switching, routing and the security basics. A rusty CCNA is no barrier; the opening SCOR modules rebuild what you need as you climb.
NOC Analyst · Junior Network Engineer · SOC Tier 1
Where you might be standing now
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Camp 2 · Professional
CCNP Security
Two exams: the SCOR 350-701 core plus one concentration — firewall (SNCF), identity (SISE) or zero trust (SCAZT). The tier where the interviews, the raises and the specialist roles start.
Network Security Engineer · Firewall Engineer · Identity Engineer
All four exams are courses here — 302 lessons planned
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Camp 3 · Expert
CCIE Security
SCOR again as your written qualifier, then the eight-hour hands-on lab. The credential that precedes you into the room: the architect seat, the critical projects, the voice the organisation checks with before it moves.
Security Architect · Principal Engineer · Practice Lead
The written is covered; every lab here is built the way the CCIE lab thinks
Which Exam Is Yours?
SCOR is the core everyone takes. The concentration is the door that matches the job you want — pick by the work, not by the exam number.
Already working on email, web, VPN or automation gear? The four retired exams stay in the library as full tracks — SESA, SWSA, SVPN, SAUTO — every objective mapped, included with All-Access.
What the Exam Actually Weighs
Cisco publishes a weight for every domain of every blueprint. This is the whole exam, to scale — and the reason lessons here are bound to objectives rather than to chapters: you study in the proportion the exam tests.
- 1 Security Concepts 20%
- 2 Network Security 25%
- 3 Cloud Security 15%
- 4 Secure Service Edge 10%
- 5 Endpoint Protection and Detection 15%
- 6 Network Access, Visibility, and Enforcement 15%
- 1 Deployment 30%
- 2 Configuration 30%
- 3 Management and Troubleshooting 25%
- 4 Integration 15%
- 1 Architecture and Deployment 10%
- 2 Policy Enforcement 25%
- 3 Web Auth and Guest Services 15%
- 4 Profiler 15%
- 5 BYOD 15%
- 6 Endpoint Compliance 10%
- 7 Network Access Device Administration 10%
- 1 Concepts 10%
- 2 Identity 20%
- 3 Policies 30%
- 4 Access 30%
- 5 Operations 10%
How a Lesson Works
The same three moves, every lesson — built for momentum, not marathon sessions. Ten to fifteen minutes, and you leave with something you can do.
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Concept
The objective, in plain language, with the one mental model that makes the configuration obvious. Licensing called out up front so nothing surprises you on real gear.
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Configure on real gear
Every command executed on the lab topology and shown with its real output — no "should look something like". The topology, start-state and configs are yours to download.
Verify
The show commands and packet captures that prove it worked, a validator that tells you whether you got it right, and a knowledge check written against the objective.
Inside every lesson
- Objective chip — the exact blueprint line this lesson satisfies
- Licensing note — what tier the feature needs, before you build it
- Real CLI and GUI — commands with the output they produced
- Lab — CML / EVE-NG topology, start configs, a validator
- Packet captures — see the protocol do what the slide claims
- Knowledge check — three questions, answered before you move on
- Official documentation — every source behind the page, dated
- Built by CCIE #59770 — Enterprise Infrastructure, Security
Your First Climb — Today, Free
Five steps, no account, no card. By the end you will know exactly what the paid library feels like, because a free lesson is a full lesson.
- Read one free lesson. Start with a SCOR lesson →
- Download its lab and bring the topology up in CML or EVE-NG. See the lab topologies →
- Take the knowledge check at the bottom of the lesson — three questions, instant answers.
- Open the exam-topic map for your exam and see every objective and the lesson that owns it. SCOR exam topics →
- Pick your door above, and claim the founders bonuses before Base Camp opens →
Two Ways In
Pick the door that matches where you are — both lead onto the same trail.
New to Network Security
Start with the SCOR course from lesson one. The opening modules build the security fundamentals — threats, cryptography, the vocabulary — in 18-minute steps, and the first lesson in every module is free with no account. Prove to yourself you can do this before you spend a dollar.
Already Working in Security
If you hold a CCNP or live in this world daily, go straight to the course that matches your target — the firewall, identity or zero-trust concentration, or SCOR as your CCIE written. Every course page shows exactly what is open today and what opens at launch.
Wherever you start, My Base Camp tracks your footprints — lessons you have visited and the next step on your trail.
Founders pricing · pre-registration
$647 of bonuses. The same $489 everyone pays.
We do not discount the library — it is $489 a year before we open and after. The year already holds every lesson, lab and capture. What founders get is what it does not: a 1:1 plan review, a founding-member call and your own track’s lessons kept for life, plus a rate held for as long as you stay. No card, no charge, one email to confirm.