CCNP Certification Cost in India 2026 — Full Breakdown of Both Exams
Almost every CCNP certification cost in India estimate you will read online is wrong in the same way: it prices one exam. CCNP takes two. This page breaks down the core exam, the concentration exam, training fees, lab access and the retake risk that quietly doubles for a two-exam certification. Reviewed by Mr. Vikas Swami, Dual CCIE #22239 and founder of Networkers Home.
The two-exam problem nobody budgets for
CCNA is one exam. CCNP is two, and that single structural difference is responsible for most of the shock people feel when they actually start booking. To earn any CCNP you pass a core exam and then a concentration exam of your choosing. For CCNP Enterprise, the core is 350-401 ENCOR. The core costs US$400 and the concentration costs US$300, so the Cisco-side bill is US$700 before you have paid a single rupee to a trainer.
At 2026 exchange rates that is roughly ₹62,000. Compare that with CCNA, where the Cisco side is a single US$300 exam at about ₹26,500, and the picture changes: the exam fees alone for CCNP are more than double CCNA's, and they can exceed the cost of the training course you take to prepare for them. A candidate who budgets ₹40,000 for "CCNP" and means the coaching fee will be roughly ₹62,000 short.
There is one piece of good news buried in the structure. The core exam is not only a CCNP requirement — it is also the qualifying exam that lets you book the matching CCIE lab. Passing 350-401 ENCOR once earns credit toward CCNP Enterprise and simultaneously opens CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure. If you have any intention of going to expert level later, the core exam is the best-value exam in the entire Cisco ladder.
Cisco exam fees — what you pay Pearson VUE
Cisco publishes exam prices in US dollars, not rupees. The rupee amount you see at checkout therefore moves with the exchange rate and with local taxes on the day you book, which is why you will find Indian sites quoting figures anywhere from ₹30,000 to ₹35,000 for the same core exam. The dollar price is the stable number; treat the rupee figure below as an approximation and re-check it when you book.
Exam fees are identical across every CCNP track. A CCNP Security candidate and a CCNP Enterprise candidate pay Cisco exactly the same amount. Where tracks genuinely differ in cost is training, because far fewer Indian institutes teach Security, Service Provider and Collaboration than teach Enterprise, and thinner supply means higher prices.
| Item | USD | INR (approx) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core exam (e.g. 350-401 ENCOR) | USD 400 | ≈ ₹35,500 | 120 minutes. Also qualifies you for the matching CCIE lab |
| Concentration exam | USD 300 | ≈ ₹26,500 | 90 minutes. Your choice from the track's concentration list |
| Total Cisco-side cost (first pass) | USD 700 | ≈ ₹62,000 | Excludes coaching, lab access, books, travel |
| Retake (per attempt) | Same as original | ≈ ₹35,500 / ₹26,500 | 5-day mandatory wait between attempts |
| Recertification (every 3 years) | USD 0 with CE credits | 80 Continuing Education credits | Otherwise repeat a qualifying exam at full price |
Training fees in India — and why the tiers differ from CCNA
The CCNA training market in India runs from ₹9,500 video courses upward. CCNP does not have a meaningful budget tier, and the reason is instructional rather than commercial: you cannot teach CCNP-level troubleshooting through pre-recorded video with no lab. The material assumes you will configure, break and repair real topologies. Providers that tried selling ₹8,000 CCNP video courses largely stopped, because the pass rates were poor enough to damage them.
What remains is a narrower band, roughly ₹35,000 to ₹90,000, separated mostly by lab quality and instructor seniority. The genuine question when comparing two CCNP quotes is not the headline fee — it is how many hours of lab access you get, whether the lab is shared or dedicated, and whether the instructor has actually run the technology in production. A CCNP Enterprise course taught by someone who has only ever passed the exam themselves is a common and expensive disappointment.
One India-specific cost worth planning for: many CCNP candidates are already working, so the real constraint is scheduling, not money. Weekend and evening batches usually cost the same as weekday batches but stretch across more months, which pushes your exam date out and increases the chance you will need a refresher before booking.
| Tier | Fee range (INR) | What you actually get |
|---|---|---|
| Self-study + lab | ₹8,000–₹20,000 | Official guides plus Cisco Modeling Labs or equivalent. Viable if you already work on Cisco kit daily |
| Live online | ₹35,000–₹55,000 | Instructor-led batches, shared cloud lab, recorded backup, mock exams |
| Classroom / premium | ₹60,000–₹90,000 | Physical lab racks, CCIE-level instructors, placement support, metro-city overheads |
The retake maths — where CCNP budgets actually break
With two exams, your exposure to failure is not doubled — it is worse than doubled, because the two exams test different things and a candidate strong enough to clear the core is not automatically ready for a concentration. A realistic worst case looks like this: core exam failed once and retaken (₹35,500 + ₹35,500), concentration passed first time (₹26,500). That is ₹97,500 on Cisco fees alone, against a ₹62,000 plan.
The 5-day mandatory wait between attempts sounds trivial and is not. Candidates who fail the core typically need four to six weeks of genuine remediation, not five days, and the ones who rebook at day six usually fail again. Budgeting a second attempt is prudent; rushing into it is how a second attempt becomes a third.
The mitigation is unglamorous. Sit a full-length, timed mock under real conditions before you book, and only book when you are clearing it comfortably rather than scraping it. An exam voucher is the most expensive practice test in the world.
Is CCNP worth it, honestly?
CCNP earns its cost when you are already in a networking role and want to move out of support into design, implementation or a specialism. It validates depth, and the Indian job market treats it as evidence that you have operated real infrastructure rather than only studied it. For an engineer with two or three years of hands-on time, it is one of the more reliable certifications to convert into a role change.
It is a poor first purchase for a complete fresher. Cisco removed the formal prerequisite, so nothing stops you booking the core exam with no CCNA and no job — but the exam is written for people who have configured these technologies under pressure. Freshers who skip straight to CCNP save one exam fee and frequently spend it twice over on retakes, then arrive at interviews holding a certification whose implied experience they cannot demonstrate.
The strongest case for CCNP is when it is a waypoint rather than a destination. Because the core exam doubles as the CCIE qualifying exam, a candidate who intends to reach expert level eventually is buying two things with one fee. If CCIE is nowhere in your plan and you simply want a better job title, be honest with yourself about whether the ₹62,000 in exam fees is better spent on the skills adjacent to networking — Linux, Python, cloud — that hiring managers increasingly ask for alongside it.
Networkers Home CCNP programmes
For transparency, since this page spends its length telling you what other people charge — here is ours. Both programmes are taught in Bangalore and live online, by instructors working under a Dual CCIE #22239 founder, and both carry Placement Guarantee* terms. Neither fee includes your Cisco exam fees, which you pay directly to Pearson VUE.
Before you decide
Reading this from outside India? The figures above are in rupees. We also run CCNP Enterprise and CCNP Security as USD-priced cohorts with US-hours timings.
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