Which two skill pillars are part of Cisco Business Architecture?

Question

Options

• AAdvanced consulting
• BDigitization
• CBusiness acumen
• DStrategic finance
• EGlobal solutions

• A
  88% (23)
• B
  4% (1)
• D
  8% (2)

Explanation

Cisco Business Architecture (CBA) is built on two core skill pillars: Advanced Consulting (A) and Business Acumen (C). Advanced Consulting equips practitioners with consultative, advisory, and facilitation skills to guide customers through complex business decisions. Business Acumen focuses on understanding business drivers, financial metrics, and industry dynamics so professionals can engage credibly at the executive level.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• B. Digitization - While digital transformation is a common customer conversation topic, it is not a defined CBA skill pillar.
• D. Strategic Finance - Financial literacy overlaps with Business Acumen, but "Strategic Finance" is not a named pillar in the CBA framework.
• E. Global Solutions - This references Cisco's portfolio breadth, not a CBA skill discipline.

Memory tip: Think "AC" = Advanced Consulting + Business Acumen - just like AC power, these two pillars drive the Cisco Business Architecture framework. Both are about how you engage people (consulting skills) and what you understand about their world (business acumen), not about specific technologies or markets.

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