700-105 Exam Guide: Verify Availability Before You Prepare
Cisco identifies 700-105 as the Cisco Midsize Collaboration Solutions for Account Managers (MCAM) exam. It assesses the skills an account manager needs to sell Cisco Midsize Collaboration Solutions, including Cisco Business Edition 6000. The most important decision for a prospective candidate is not which practice questions to memorize, but whether this assessment is still available for certification or recertification. This guide explains the official scope, the blueprint, how to study the sales scenarios it emphasizes, and which Cisco pages to check before investing further preparation time.
Is 700-105 still an available exam?
Check Cisco’s current exams list and retired-exams information before scheduling or buying any preparation material. Cisco’s current list does not include exam 700-105 among currently available exams, and Cisco states that retired exams are no longer available for certifying or recertifying.
The official 700-105 description also carries a 2015 Cisco Systems, Inc. footer. That date is part of the document’s provenance, not evidence that the exam was retired on a particular date. The safer conclusion is that the official material is historical and that current availability must be confirmed through Cisco’s live exam information rather than assumed from a third-party page.
If Cisco confirms that 700-105 is unavailable, do not treat an old blueprint, question bank, or “latest” label as a route to a current credential. Instead, identify the current Cisco certification or exam track that matches your role and use its current blueprint. If Cisco confirms a special or limited pathway, follow the instructions on the relevant official page.
A sensible availability check
Open Cisco’s current exams list and search for the exact exam number and title. Then review Cisco’s retired-exams information. If the number is absent or the status remains unclear, contact Cisco through the support or certification channels linked from its official site before scheduling.
Record the date on which you checked and retain the official page that supports the decision. This simple step prevents a common preparation mistake: spending weeks studying a historical exam because an unofficial catalogue page still describes it as active.
What does the exam validate?
700-105 validates sales-oriented knowledge for Cisco Midsize Collaboration Solutions, including Cisco Business Edition 6000. It is designed around the account manager’s ability to connect collaboration products, licensing, positioning, and customer needs rather than around a purely configuration-focused technical task.
The official title, Cisco Midsize Collaboration Solutions for Account Managers (MCAM), points to the intended audience: account managers and sales professionals who need to discuss a midsize collaboration proposal credibly. The description says the assessment covers skills an account manager needs to sell these solutions. It does not establish a separate prerequisite, job-tenure requirement, or technical laboratory requirement.
A candidate should therefore study the commercial reasoning behind a solution. That means being able to identify a customer problem, select a relevant capability, explain why Cisco Business Edition 6000 or an associated collaboration option fits, and distinguish a suitable proposal from one that ignores the customer’s business needs.
Who should use this guide?
Use this guide if your work involves positioning Cisco Midsize Collaboration Solutions, discussing Cisco Business Edition 6000 with customers, supporting account teams, or translating collaboration requirements into a sales proposal. It is also useful for deciding whether an old MCAM study plan is relevant to a current Cisco pathway.
Do not use the guide as proof that you are eligible to sit a live exam. The supplied Cisco material identifies the exam and its skill scope, but it does not provide a current prerequisite policy for 700-105. Availability and any current registration rules must come from Cisco.
How is the blueprint divided?
The blueprint gives the largest share to solution knowledge and customer alignment, followed by market and business context. Cisco states that the topics are general guidelines, that related topics may also appear on a particular exam delivery, and that the guidelines may change without notice.
The official allocation is 23% for collaboration-market trends, business challenges, customer pain points, new business capabilities, and midsize-market opportunities. Study this domain as a discovery and business-conversation exercise: connect a market pressure or customer pain point to a capability that could address it.
The official allocation is 54% for Cisco Midsize Collaboration Solutions, Cisco Business Edition 6000, licensing options, competitive positioning, differentiators, and alignment with customer business needs. This is the central study domain. Organize notes by customer requirement, solution capability, licensing consideration, differentiator, and competitor or alternative—not by isolated product name alone.
The official allocation is 13% for integrating Cisco Business Edition 6000 with Cisco WebEx and evaluating Cisco Spark’s relevance to Cisco Business Edition 6000. Prepare to explain the role and business relevance of these relationships in a customer conversation, while verifying terminology and current product information from current Cisco sources if the exam is replaced or updated.
The official allocation is 10% for deployment scenarios, customer use cases, and sales-support tools and resources. This smaller domain still deserves deliberate review because scenario questions can require the candidate to choose an appropriate use case or resource rather than recall a definition.
These percentages describe the historical 700-105 blueprint and should not be treated as a current exam guarantee. They total the supplied blueprint allocation, but Cisco’s warning about related topics and possible changes means a study plan should cover the concepts around each domain rather than attempt to predict individual items.
Turn the percentages into study decisions
Use the 54% Cisco Midsize Collaboration Solutions domain as the anchor for your notes and practice explanations. Then use the 23% market domain to create customer-discovery prompts, the 13% integration domain to test solution relationships, and the 10% deployment domain to check whether your proposed answer can be used in a realistic scenario.
Do not compare the percentages without naming their domains. A larger allocation does not make the other domains optional, especially when a customer scenario may combine market need, solution choice, integration, and deployment considerations in one decision.
What exam logistics are officially documented?
The historical Cisco exam-description document specifies a 45-minute duration and 25–35 items for the 700-105 assessment. Those figures describe the document’s assessment format; they do not establish that a currently schedulable exam exists.
The document does not, in the supplied evidence, establish a current delivery method, testing-center policy, remote-proctoring option, registration price, passing score, question types, or language options for 700-105. Do not fill these gaps with claims from an old catalogue entry or an unverified preparation site.
Cisco says that all exams on its current list are available worldwide in English, while availability in other languages varies. Because 700-105 does not appear on that current list, this general statement should not be used to promise a language or delivery option for 700-105. Confirm any replacement exam’s logistics on its current Cisco page.
What not to infer from the old document
The 45-minute duration does not reveal how much time each item receives, and the 25–35 item range does not reveal the distribution of items among domains. The blueprint percentages are not instructions to expect a fixed number of questions in each area.
Likewise, the document’s title and topic list do not prove that a candidate can register today. Treat the PDF as a historical scope reference and Cisco’s current list as the starting point for an availability decision.
How should you study the 54% solution domain?
Build a customer-to-solution matrix rather than memorizing product descriptions. For each Cisco Midsize Collaboration Solution topic, record the customer need it addresses, the relevant Cisco Business Edition 6000 consideration, licensing implications, differentiators, competitive position, and the evidence you would use in a sales conversation.
Start with customer outcomes. For example, write a short scenario involving a midsize organization’s collaboration challenge, then identify the business requirement before selecting a solution element. Explain why the option fits, what assumption you made, and which licensing or positioning issue must be clarified. This trains the decision process the blueprint emphasizes.
Keep separate columns for confirmed facts and follow-up questions. A product capability can be relevant without being sufficient to recommend a solution. A strong account-manager answer should expose missing information instead of presenting an unconditional product choice.
Use current Cisco material only if you are transitioning from this historical exam to a current Cisco track. Product names, packaging, licensing, and integration details can change; the supplied 700-105 document is not evidence of current commercial terms.
A practical note-taking template
Create one page for each solution topic with these prompts: customer problem; business impact; proposed capability; Cisco Business Edition 6000 relationship; licensing question; differentiator; competitive concern; deployment implication; and source to verify. Leave the final field blank until you have a current official reference.
After completing a page, explain the recommendation aloud in a few sentences. If the explanation begins with a product name and never states the customer’s need, revise it. The blueprint explicitly includes alignment with customer business needs, so that alignment should be visible in every practice response.
How should you prepare for market and customer questions?
Treat the 23% collaboration-market trends and business-challenges domain as structured discovery practice. You need to recognize the business issue, identify the opportunity for a midsize organization, and connect the issue to a collaboration conversation without confusing a trend with a customer requirement.
Make a two-column list. In the first column, write a market pressure, business challenge, or customer pain point. In the second, write the question an account manager should ask before recommending a solution. Add a third note describing the capability or opportunity that might follow from the answer.
Avoid unsupported current-market claims when studying from the 2015 document. The official blueprint names the categories of knowledge but does not provide a current market report, customer statistics, or a catalogue of present-day business trends. Use the categories to structure research, then verify contemporary details with current Cisco sources if you are preparing for another exam.
A useful self-test
Read a customer challenge and give two responses: one that jumps directly to a product and one that begins with discovery. Prefer the second response when it identifies the customer’s business objective, constraints, and desired capability before positioning a solution.
This exercise also exposes a frequent mistake: treating every collaboration problem as a technology-selection problem. Account-manager preparation should include business impact, opportunity qualification, and solution relevance—not only feature recall.
How should you study WebEx and Spark relevance?
The 13% integration domain requires more than recognizing names. Prepare to explain how Cisco Business Edition 6000 relates to Cisco WebEx and how Cisco Spark could be relevant to Cisco Business Edition 6000 within the historical blueprint’s sales context.
Draw a simple relationship map. Put Cisco Business Edition 6000 at the center, then annotate the role of Cisco WebEx and the relevance of Cisco Spark. For each relationship, write the customer situation that would make the discussion useful, the business benefit being explored, and the question that would prevent an unsuitable recommendation.
Do not assume that historical product relationships or terminology remain current. The supplied document is dated with a 2015 footer, and the evidence does not provide current product lifecycle or integration details. If 700-105 has been replaced, transfer the reasoning method to the current blueprint rather than treating old product language as current guidance.
The integration mistake to avoid
A weak study answer merely states that products integrate. A stronger answer identifies why the customer needs the relationship, what outcome it supports, and what information the account manager still needs. Practice distinguishing technical possibility from business relevance, because the blueprint specifically includes evaluating relevance.
How should you cover deployment scenarios and sales resources?
The 10% deployment, customer-use-case, and sales-support-tools domain is best studied through small scenario cards. Each card should state the customer context, the proposed use case, the deployment question, and the sales resource that would help validate or advance the conversation.
Include scenarios that require clarification. For example, a customer may have a stated collaboration goal but no defined users, deployment constraints, or buying process. Your answer should identify the missing information and select the next sales-support action, not invent a technical design or commercial commitment.
The official evidence does not list the individual sales-support tools or resources, so do not create a tool catalogue from memory or from an unofficial dump. Use Cisco’s authoritative material for any resource names, availability, or current purpose.
Build scenario cards efficiently
Write the customer objective on the front of a card and the reasoning path on the back: discovery question, relevant use case, solution consideration, deployment issue, and supporting resource. Review the cards in mixed order so you learn to identify the domain from the situation rather than from a heading.
Mark any card that depends on a historical product detail. Those cards are candidates for current-source verification or removal if you move to a replacement exam.
What study sequence works best?
Use a four-pass sequence: confirm the exam decision, map the blueprint, build solution reasoning, and then practise mixed scenarios. This order prevents wasted effort on an unavailable exam and ensures that the largest historical domain receives the most attention without neglecting market, integration, or deployment topics.
Pass one is administrative. Check Cisco’s current exam list and retired-exams page, save the result, and decide whether 700-105 is a valid target. If it is not available, stop treating the old assessment as a scheduling objective and find the current Cisco alternative.
Pass two is structural. Copy the four official domains into a study tracker and attach the exact domain labels to every note. Record the 23% collaboration-market trends domain, 54% Cisco Midsize Collaboration Solutions domain, 13% Cisco Business Edition 6000 integration domain, and 10% deployment and sales-support domain as historical blueprint references.
Pass three is explanatory. Build the customer-to-solution matrix, relationship map, and scenario cards. Prioritize the 54% Cisco Midsize Collaboration Solutions domain, then check that your explanations also address the 23% collaboration-market trends domain and the two smaller domains.
Pass four is diagnostic. Mix scenarios from all four domains, explain each choice, and mark whether the difficulty came from missing product knowledge, weak customer analysis, licensing uncertainty, integration confusion, or failure to identify the next sales action. Study the cause of the error, not just the answer label.
A roadmap you can adapt
In the first study session, make the availability decision and collect the official blueprint. In the next sessions, create the solution matrix and customer-discovery notes. Follow with focused review of Business Edition 6000 relationships, then deployment and sales-support scenarios. Finish with mixed, timed reasoning practice only after the content map is complete.
The number and length of sessions should reflect your available time and whether the exam is actually schedulable. A calendar built around an unavailable exam is not a productive study plan, regardless of how detailed it looks.
How can you identify weak preparation?
You are not ready to make a responsible exam decision if you can repeat product names but cannot explain customer fit, licensing considerations, differentiators, or the next discovery question. The blueprint is sales-oriented, so recognition without justification is a weak signal.
Use an error log with five labels: market context, solution positioning, licensing, integration relevance, and deployment or sales support. For every missed practice item, write the customer need, the tempting but unsuitable answer, the reason it fails, and the official source needed to verify the corrected principle.
Review the log in reverse order of recurrence. If most errors concern the 54% Cisco Midsize Collaboration Solutions domain, return to the solution matrix. If errors cluster in the 23% collaboration-market trends domain, practise discovery and business-impact questions. Do not respond to every error by collecting more question banks.
Avoid memorization-based materials that claim to reproduce live questions. No supplied Cisco source supports such materials, and memorizing alleged answers does not demonstrate the account-manager skill described by Cisco. Use practice scenarios to rehearse reasoning, not to predict or obtain restricted exam content.
Common preparation traps
The first trap is ignoring availability because a third-party page still has an exam title. The second is treating the largest percentage as the only domain. The third is learning old product language without checking whether it belongs to a current Cisco pathway. The fourth is studying isolated features while skipping customer needs and competitive positioning.
A final trap is inventing logistics. Do not assume a current price, passing score, registration route, delivery method, language, or prerequisite when the supplied evidence does not establish it. Confirm those details directly with Cisco for any live replacement exam.
What should you do before scheduling?
Schedule only after Cisco confirms that the intended exam is available and provides the current registration details. For 700-105, the current Cisco exams list does not show the exam, so the immediate next action is verification rather than payment or a test appointment.
If the exam is confirmed unavailable, change the objective: identify a current Cisco exam whose official scope matches your account-manager responsibilities, obtain its blueprint, and rebuild the study tracker around that document. Historical 700-105 material can inform your background in midsize collaboration solutions, but it cannot substitute for the current exam requirements.
If a current pathway is identified, compare its official audience, domains, logistics, and any prerequisites with your role. Keep separate notes for historical 700-105 facts and current-exam facts so that old figures—such as the 45-minute duration or 25–35 item range—are not accidentally presented as current requirements.
On the day you make a scheduling decision, use Cisco’s current page as the authority for availability, language, delivery, registration, and policy details. The supplied evidence supports the historical scope and format only; it does not support a current appointment or a current passing requirement.
A final decision checklist
Confirm the exact exam number and title. Confirm that Cisco lists it as available or gives a valid official route to it. Confirm the current blueprint and registration instructions. Confirm any current language, delivery, and eligibility details. Then choose study resources that teach the domain rather than promising access to live questions.
If any of those checks fails, pause. A pause is more useful than preparing against an obsolete document or relying on unsupported claims from a third-party catalogue.
Conclusion
700-105 is documented as a sales-focused assessment for Cisco Midsize Collaboration Solutions and Cisco Business Edition 6000, with the historical blueprint emphasizing solution positioning and customer alignment. Its official document specifies a 45-minute assessment with 25–35 items and identifies four weighted domains, but Cisco’s current exams list does not include 700-105. Verify status first. If it is unavailable, use the blueprint as background knowledge while moving to the current Cisco exam that matches your role, and keep all scheduling decisions tied to current Cisco evidence.
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