Do you want to learn how to install, configure, and maintain large, multiprotocol networks? Are you trying to increase your knowledge, sharpen your competitive edge, or advance your career? The expertise you develop when preparing for the Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP™) will add to your skill set and help you expand your professional options.
Gaining and Certifying Advanced Skills
The CCNP certifies an individual’s networking skills at the advanced level. Candidates who pass proctored exams will receive a CCNP certificate from Cisco and may use the CCNP designation on their business cards.
The CCNP is awarded in two tracks:
- Routing and Switching
- WAN Switching
To help candidates prepare for the certification exams, Cisco Learning Partners offer the following services:
- Leader-led and e-learning courses
- Mentoring and online chat rooms
- Hands-on skills development via Internetenabled remote labs
Additional resources are available through the Cisco Learning Store.
Benefits of CCNP Certification
Overall, Cisco certification validates an individual’s achievement, so it increases the holder’s professional credibility by ensuring high standards of technical expertise.
In particular, the CCNP certification indicates knowledge of networking for organizations whose networks have from 100 to more than 500 nodes.
A CCNP can do the following:
- Implement appropriate technologies to build a scalable routed network
- Build campus networks using multilayer switching technologies
- Improve traffic flow, reliability, redundancy, and performance for campus LANs, routed and switched WANs, and remote access networks
- Create and deploy a global intranet
- Troubleshoot an environment that uses Cisco routers and switches for multiprotocol client hosts and services
Positions for a CCNP include:
- Network administrator
- Level 2 support engineer
- Level 2 systems engineer
- Network technician
- Deployment engineer
