Wireless Has Left ENCOR. Here Is Where It Went

On 19 March 2026, wireless left the CCNP Enterprise core exam. Not reduced, not reweighted — removed. If you have been studying 350-401 from material bought before that date, part of what you have been revising is no longer on the exam, and something else is.

This is the good kind of change, and the reason is worth knowing: wireless did not disappear. Cisco gave it a track of its own.

What ENCOR looks like now

350-401 moved to v1.2. The six domains survive — Architecture, Virtualization, Infrastructure, Network Assurance, Security, and Automation — but two things changed inside them.

All wireless content is gone: design principles, the wireless QoS language, wireless troubleshooting and wireless security. Everything that used to sit under those headings in v1.1 is simply not examinable on ENCOR any more.

And the sixth domain was renamed. Automation is now Automation and Artificial Intelligence, which is not cosmetic — the blueprint now expects you to understand how Cisco Catalyst Center handles configuration, monitoring and management through AI-assisted workflows as well as the traditional ones.

If you are studying from a book or a course that still teaches wireless as part of ENCOR, it predates 19 March 2026. Check the edition before you spend another evening on it.

Where the wireless went

Cisco launched a dedicated wireless certification track on the same day. Wireless is no longer a concentration hanging off Enterprise; it is its own professional-level certification.

CCNP Wireless now needs a core exam plus one concentration:

• 350-101 WLCOR — Implementing and Operating Cisco Wireless Core Technologies v1.0, the new core
• 300-110 WLSD v1.2 — Designing Cisco Wireless Networks
• 300-120 WLSI v1.2 — Implementing Cisco Wireless Advanced Solutions

CCIE Wireless was refreshed at the same time, adding Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 7 coverage and Meraki, along with a new practical exam.

If you already passed ENWLSD or ENWLSI, read this part

This is the detail most of the coverage has buried, and it is the one that matters if you have already done the work.

The old wireless concentration exams — 300-425 ENWLSD and 300-430 ENWLSI — transition into the new track rather than evaporating. If you passed either of them within the last three years, you can sit the new WLCOR core exam and earn CCNP Wireless without retaking a concentration exam at all.

One exam, and a certification you did not have last year. If you sat ENWLSD or ENWLSI in 2023 or later, that is worth checking your dates on this week rather than next year, because the three-year window does not pause while you think about it.

If you are mid-study for ENCOR right now

Three situations, three different answers.

You have not booked anything yet. Study v1.2. There is no advantage in chasing a retired blueprint, and every week that passes makes old material harder to find and less trustworthy.

You are booked and studying from v1.1 material. The wireless sections are now dead weight — time you can spend on Infrastructure and Security, which between them are the largest part of the exam. The Automation domain is where you are most exposed, because AI-assisted Catalyst Center workflows are new and older material does not cover them at all.

You wanted the wireless. Then the change works in your favour. Wireless as an afterthought inside a general enterprise exam was never going to give it the depth it deserved. A dedicated core and two dedicated concentrations will.

What we changed on our side

Our CCNP Enterprise material tracks the current blueprint, and our ENCOR camp was rebuilt around v1.2 rather than patched. Every wireless module came out, and the Automation coverage was extended to include the AI-assisted Catalyst Center workflows the new blueprint expects.

Our camps are intensive rather than fixed-length, and the balance of instruction and hands-on work varies with the certification — ENCOR is not shaped like Security+ and should not be taught as though it were. If you want the specifics for a particular class, the course page carries them, or ask us and we will tell you plainly.

Across all our programs, 98% of students pass on the first attempt, and every course comes with unlimited retakes for twenty-four months. If the blueprint moves again while you are still studying — and Cisco changes things — you can sit the class again on the current material at no cost.

Where to start

• Studying for ENCOR: confirm your material says v1.2 or later before you do anything else
• Holding ENWLSD or ENWLSI from 2023 onwards: check the date you passed, then look at WLCOR
• Planning a CCNP Enterprise: see the current Cisco schedule
• Not sure where you stand: call 855-868-4467 or email website@thinqtanklearning.com

Tell us which exams you already hold and when you passed them. That is usually enough for us to say whether the change has cost you anything, gained you something, or made no difference at all — and for a fair number of people this year, the answer has been the second one.