Associate, then Professional
ZCA-101 is the entry level: sixty items in ninety minutes on fundamentals, placement and how policy is evaluated. ZCP-201 is the working certification — eighty items in two hours on installation, policy design, inspection and operations — and it assumes hands-on time with a real appliance. Neither costs anything, and nor do the specialist tracks.
Specialist, in two directions
ZCS-SASE-301 covers overlay design and addressing, failover behaviour, remote user access and application routing. ZCS-MSP-302 covers running many customers from one console: tenancy and access scoping, policy templates and the drift they produce, entitlement and billing, and customer isolation. Both assume the Professional credential.
An examination, not a quiz
Each exam publishes its objectives and their weighting, and draws every paper from a bank five times the size of one sitting, so two candidates never sit the same questions. Seven items in ten test the subject itself and would be answerable by a competent engineer who has never used Zedmos; the rest test the product. Scoring happens on the server and the answer key never reaches the browser.
What is not here yet
There are no courses, no hands-on labs and no practical exam. The Academy is an examination body: it publishes what each credential measures and tests it, and the preparation material is the technical documentation. Further specialist tracks and a practical level are intended, and are not announced with a date until they exist.