Network Programmability Developer Specialist

The networking giant's new Network Programmability Developer Specialist (NPDEV) certification is for application developers to build infrastructure programming skills.

"It's providing application developers with a comprehensive curriculum needed to understand the development required for the infrastructure and how do you program an infrastructure," said Vashi. "It's really teaching what the care-abouts and characteristics are around a network and how they can actually leverage the network to drive better applications and better results."

The certification course includes instruction on data handling and formats, fundamentals of networking and network programmability, APIs as well as automation protocols, data models, operations and controller platforms and protocols.