{"id":2865,"date":"2026-07-11T09:43:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccie.cafe\/?page_id=2865"},"modified":"2026-08-29T12:37:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T17:37:28","slug":"useful-links","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ccie.cafe\/?page_id=2865","title":{"rendered":"Useful Links"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The set of links I keep looking for and forget that I have:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1\">Cisco Certification Related<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ccie.cloudapps.cisco.com\/CCIE\/Schedule_Lab\/CCIEOnline\/CCIEOnline?verify\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CCIE \/ CCDE Validation Tool<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Looking to check on someone&#8217;s status? You&#8217;ll need a Cisco login, and then some other perform some lookups.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/u.cisco.com\/explore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Cisco U&#8217;s Catalog<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Looking to Learn a bit more? Take a look through Cisco U&#8217;s available catalog of Courses. There are some courses to give you Continuing Education credits for Recert, as well as some to help scratch a tech itch.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cp.certmetrics.com\/cisco\/en\/home\/dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Cert Metrics \/ Certification Status<\/strong><\/a> (Non-CCIE\/CCDE) &#8211; Looking to check your progress on your Associate, Professional or Specialist Level Certification(s)? Take a peek here after you login.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ccie.cloudapps.cisco.com\/CCIE\/Schedule_Lab\/CCIEOnline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CCIE Portal \/ CCIE Lab Scheduler \/ Certification Status<\/strong> <\/a>(for CCIE \/ CCDE Holders) &#8211; Looking to check your progress on your Expert Level Certification(s)? Take a peek here after you login.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ce.cisco.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Cisco Continuing Education (Cisco CE) Portal<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; After logging in, you can take a peek at your CE progress toward recertification or just in general to grab some professional development and list it out on your own site&#8230; Like I did here: <a href=\"https:\/\/ccie.cafe\/?p=1977\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Professional Development \u2013 Courses Taken aka \u201cAdditional Schooling\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/learningnetwork.cisco.com\/s\/cisco-certification-roadmaps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cisco Certification Roadmap<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Looking to see updates? check out Cisco&#8217;s site for the latest, and here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ciscolive.com\/c\/dam\/r\/ciscolive\/global-event\/docs\/2025\/pdf\/CISCOU-1048.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cisco live doc<\/a> from 2025 to show you the <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2\">Palo Alto Networks Related<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.paloaltonetworks.com\/t5\/customer-resources\/pan-os-globalprotect-amp-user-id-preferred-release-guidance-from\/ta-p\/258304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>PAN-OS, GlobalProtect &amp; User-ID: Preferred Release Guidance from Support Perspective<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>&#8211; Looking for what version of PAN-OS, Global Protect or User-ID agent is &#8220;gold star adjacent&#8221;? You&#8217;ll have to login with you palo creds, but the info is all right there for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">updated: 2026.08.29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The set of links I keep looking for and forget that I have: Cisco Certification&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2865","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"rise-blocks_excerpt":"The set of links I keep looking for and forget that I have: Cisco Certification..","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccie.cafe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccie.cafe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccie.cafe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccie.cafe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccie.cafe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2865"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ccie.cafe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2932,"href":"https:\/\/ccie.cafe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2865\/revisions\/2932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccie.cafe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}