New CCNP, CCIP, and CCDP Certification Training Courses ROUTE,
SWITCH and TSHOOT available
On the 25th of January 2010, Cisco® announced
changes to the CCNP, CCIP and CCDP certification tracks.
New Cisco courses available:
The new ROUTE and SWITCH courses replace the BSCI
and BCMSN courses, respectively. TSHOOT is a new course made up of
approximately 70% hands-on lab scenarios focusing on
troubleshooting skills. ISCW and ONT will be withdrawn.
CCNP Certification
Cisco Certified Network Professional
(CCNP®) validates the ability to plan, implement, verify and
troubleshoot local and wide-area enterprise networks and work
collaboratively with specialists on advanced security, voice,
wireless and video solutions. The CCNP certification is appropriate
for those with at least one year of networking experience who are
ready to advance their skills and work independently on complex
network solutions. Those who achieve CCNP have demonstrated the
skills required in enterprise roles such as network technician,
support engineer, systems engineer or network engineer.
CCNP Voice
Certification
Cisco Certified Network Professional CCNP
Voice validates advance knowledge and skills required to integrate
into underlying network architectures. Furthermore, this
certification validates a robust set of skills in implementing,
operating, configuring, and troubleshooting a converged IP network.
With a CCNP Voice certification, a network professional can create
a collaboration solution that is transparent, scalable, and
manageable. The CCNP Voice focuses on Cisco Unified Communications
Manager (formerly Unified CallManager), quality of service (QoS),
gateways, gatekeepers, IP phones, voice applications, and utilities
on Cisco routers and Cisco Catalyst switches. Additionally, the
integration and troubleshooting of Cisco Unified Communications
applications are now covered in the CCNP Voice, specifically the
Cisco Unity Connection and Cisco Unified Presence applications.
CCNP Security
Certification
CCNP Security certification program is aligned
specifically to the job role of the Cisco Network Security Engineer
responsible for Security in Routers, Switches, Networking devices
and appliances, as well as choosing, deploying, supporting and
troubleshooting Firewalls, VPNS, and IDS/IPS solutions for their
networking environments.
CCNP Wireless
Certification
CCNP Wireless certification addresses the need
for designing, implementing, and operating Cisco Wireless networks
and mobility infrastructures. CCNP Wireless certification
emphasizes wireless networking principles and theory. It also
recognizes the expertise and technical acumen of wireless
professionals who can assess and translate network business
requirements into technical specifications that in turn, are
incorporated into successful installations.
CCIP
Certification
Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional
(CCIP®) validates advanced knowledge and skills required to manage
service provider infrastructures. With a CCIP certification, a
network professional working in a service provider organization
demonstrates competencies in infrastructure IP networking
solutions. The CCIP curriculum includes IP routing, IP QoS, BGP,
and MPLS.
CCDP
Certification
Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP®)
validates advanced knowledge of network design concepts and
principles. With a CCDP certification, a network professional can
discuss, design, and create advanced addressing and routing,
security, network management, data centre, and IP multicast complex
multi-layered enterprise architectures that include virtual private
networking and wireless domains. The CCDP curriculum includes
building scalable internetworks, building multilayer switched
networks, and designing network service architecture.
CCNP Service Provider Operations
Certification
The Cisco Certified Network Professional in
Service Provider Operations (CCNP SP Operations) validates
knowledge and skills required (of a Tier II or Tier III support
engineer) to troubleshoot and maintain service provider IP NGN core
(PE-PE and PE-CE) network infrastructures. With a CCNP SP
Operations certification, a network professional demonstrates
knowledge and skills required to isolate network performance
problems, implement proactive fault measures using operations
management processes, frameworks, and network management systems.
The CCNP SP Operations curriculum includes maintaining carrier
class routing protocol environments, MPLS VPN and TE deployments,
and QoS mechanisms using Cisco IOS and IOS XR.