This document is issued to notify the upgrade of Huawei’s certification system. The system upgrade will officially start on January 2, 2019. This upgrade will allow our certification services to have the unified brand, follow the latest ICT technological trend, and meet the company’s requirements on long-term strategic development.
1 Upgrade Contents
Huawei is now upgrading its certification architecture from “ICT infrastructure certification”, “ICT developer certification”, and “ICT vertical certification” to “ICT infrastructure certification”, “Platform and service certification”, and “ICT vertical certification”.
Huawei Certification categories upgrade from nine (HCNA, HCNP, HCIE, etc.) to three , namely HCIA, HCIP, and HCIE. Here, the letter I refers to ICT, short for information and communications technology.
Table 1 Mapping relationship between the existing and new certificates.
| Before Upgrade | After Upgrade |
| HCNA: Huawei Certified Network Associate | HCIA: Huawei Certified ICT Associate |
| HCVA: Huawei Certified Vertical Associate | |
| HCNP: Huawei Certified Network Professional | HCIP: Huawei Certified ICT Professional |
| HCDA: Huawei Certified Development Associate | |
| HCDP: Huawei Certified Development Professional | |
| HCIE: Huawei Certified Internetwork Expert | HCIE: Huawei Certified ICT Expert |
2 Upgrade Plan
The certification system will start to apply the new naming rules from January 2, 2019, and begin to issue certificates with new names from February 1, 2019.
3 Remarks
The upgrade will not impact the validity of existing certificates. All related certificate, documents, notices, brochures, and marketing materials are still effective. For details about the mapping relationship between the existing and new certificate names, refer to table 1.
4 FAQ
● Will the existing certificates still be effective upon the upgrade?
Existing certificates are still effective during their validity periods.
● Some training materials are still using the old names. Will this upgrade impact our training sessions?
The upgrade will not impact any training sessions. Students can acquire the latest version training materials from the Huawei website.
● Will this upgrade bring any change to certification tests?
No. This upgrade changes only certification names. Test scales and questions remain unchanged. However, we need some time to gradually upgrade the test system, so certification test will continue to use the only names for a certain period of time. Students can join tests according to their test codes.
