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HPE Network Switching Professional

Standardize your team on HPE Network Switching Professional with a structured HPE Aruba training path — a blueprint-weighted practice exam and team admin reporting included on every CBT Nuggets Teams seat.

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1
Course
1
Practice exam
7
Core skills
$350
Exam fee (HPE Aruba)
IT operations team at help desk workstations with ticket queues and network diagrams
Difficulty
Difficulty: 3 of 5 (Moderate)
Moderate
Exam fee (HPE Aruba)
$350
Courses on path
1
Official source
HPE Aruba’s official exam page
Exam code
  • HPE7-A08

Exam datasheet

Prerequisites
No formal prerequisites, but the associate version would be helpful
Recommended experience
2 years of experience working as a team member that supports and maintains multiple campus topologies, edge branches, and data center networks.
Recertification
3 years
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Exams

Exams for this certification

Exam fees per engineer, paid to the exam vendor$350

Exam — Required

Every engineer on the HPE Network Switching Professional path takes HPE7-A08.

  1. HPE7-A08HPE Network Switching Professional ExamPractice exam included on every Teams seat
    Exam fee
    $350
    Exam length
    2 hours
    Questions
    75
    Passing score
    65%

    Exam blueprint: HPE7-A08

Skills your team builds

HPE switching solutionscampus networksbranch networksdata center networksnetwork designimplementationmanagement

Training path

Your team's training path

One CBT Nuggets course covers the full HPE Network Switching Professional path. Your team can start today and have admin reporting visible from day one.

  1. Start here · primary course

    Aruba Network Switching Professional

    This intermediate HPE Aruba training helps network engineers and infrastructure analysts get hands-on with enterprise switching. You’ll learn how to plan, configure, and troubleshoot wired network solutions using Aruba Central and CLI. Build skills in VLAN setup, Layer 2 and Layer 3 configuration, routing protocols, QoS, and switch security. Prepare for the HPE Network Switching Professional certification and manage Aruba networks across multiple sites with confidence.

    John McGovern
    129 videosPractice exam26h
    Open course

Every certification course includes

  • Expert-led video training
  • Certification practice exams
  • Per-team completion reporting

HPE Aruba career ladder

Where HPE Network Switching Professional sits in your team's HPE Aruba progression

The cert your team is on now, plus the levels above and below. Use this to map an engineer's next-step credential or to plan headcount coverage across tiers.

  1. Associate level

    1 cert

    HPE Network Switching Associate

    HPE6-A86

  2. Professional level

    1 cert

    HPE Network Switching Professional

    HPE7-A08

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Customer outcome

Build HPE capability across the whole team, not one engineer

Assign the HPE Network Switching Professional course to the engineers who need it, and the team report shows who has started, who has finished, and who has passed the practice exam — the view leadership uses to see HPE Aruba skills coverage across the team and where the gaps are.

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Team capability

Make HPE a number on your team capability sheet, not a single engineer’s certificate.

Standardizing your team on HPE gives leadership a clear picture of HPE Aruba skills coverage — who has completed the training, who is still on the path, and where the gaps are — so staffing and escalation plans rest on known capability instead of on one engineer.

Credential: HPE Network Switching Professional

Exam
  • HPE7-A08

Frequently asked questions about HPE Network Switching Professional training

Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating HPE Network Switching Professional training for their team.

How does HPE Network Switching Professional fit into our compliance and governance program?

Teams often cite HPE Network Switching Professional when documenting that the engineers who run Aruba switching, spanning tree, OSPF and BGP have validated training coverage. Team reporting supplies per-learner progress, completion and completion exports as audit evidence, while the auditor's control crosswalk decides any formal mapping to a framework.

Who on the team should hold HPE Network Switching Professional, and what can a certified team own?

It suits network engineers who already configure and support Aruba switches and are taking on routed campus designs. The linked course works through private VLANs, STP and Layer 2 topology optimization, multi-area OSPF with stub areas, filtering, summarization and path selection, and iBGP policy using weight, local preference, AS-path, origin, MED and peer groups. A certified team can own the switched access layer, the OSPF routing domain and BGP edge policy.

What does CBT Nuggets HPE Network Switching Professional training include for a team?

CBT Nuggets HPE Network Switching Professional courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to HPE Aruba's published exam objectives, the course list on this page says so. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion and exam readiness per engineer — the view managers use to run a team training program.

How do I assign and track HPE Network Switching Professional training for my team?

From the admin console, managers assign the HPE Network Switching Professional courses directly to specific engineers or role groups and track completion and practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can review or export for leadership reviews or compliance reporting.

How long does it take to certify a team on HPE Network Switching Professional?

The linked training adds up to about 26 hours of video across the live courses. Total time to certify depends on each engineer's starting point with Aruba switching and dynamic routing, and team reporting shows who has completed the assigned courses before exams are scheduled.

What if HPE Aruba updates the HPE Network Switching Professional exam objectives?

CBT Nuggets updates HPE Aruba course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When HPE Aruba restructures or renames a track, the assigned training stays aligned with the same team training plan, and the training stays current without anyone losing their progress mid-stream.

Ready to HPE Network Switching Professional-certify your team?

Build HPE Network Switching Professional capability across your team

See how CBT Nuggets helps IT leaders plan and track HPE Network Switching Professional training across the team — a practice exam and reporting included.

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