Digital badges are the best tool to highlight your Cisco certifications and achievements.

Cisco Digital Badges

Digital badges are the best tool to highlight your Cisco certifications and achievements.

What is a digital badge?


Cisco has included digital badges as an additional way for you to share and validate your achievements.

Digital Badges

Cisco has included digital badges as an additional way for you to share and validate your achievements. What makes them such a game-changer?

Enable employers to quickly validate your certifications and achievements

Grants viewers immediate access to validated information on Credly that features your knowledge and skills and verifies its issuance by Cisco.

Badge image and metadata are uniquely linked to you and your achievement

Enhance your professional brand by sharing your digital badges on any online platform: resume, social media, portfolio, etc.

Continue with learning based off of your past achievements

Receive personalized certification recommendations, based on your earned credentials.

Align yourself with other accredited experts in the field

Search for new job opportunities and compare salaries related to your certifications.

How do I earn a digital badge?

It’s as straightforward as passing a certification exam

When you pass a Certification exam, you can earn a digital Certification badge or Specialist badge.

For Training, when you complete any of the training courses that are part of a certification track, you earn a training badge. The different badge levels represent the difficulty of the course and correspond with the levels of the certification program.


Already earned a badge?

Claim your badge

Look for an email from Credly with instructions for claiming and downloading your badge.

Stand out in the world through your professional profile

Get the recognition you deserve by sharing your achievement. Start by announcing your accomplishment on LinkedIn.

Recertify and keep your digital badge

Cisco certifications are valid for three years. Maintain your certification badges by earning Continuing Education credits toward recertification or by retaking the exams.


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