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CCNP Certification

Certification: Cisco CCNP Enterprise - CCNP Enterprise

CCNP Certification

Cisco CCNP certification as: CCNP Data Center, CCNP Routing and Switching, CCNP Security, CCNP Service Provider, CCNP Service Provider Operations, CCNP Voice, CCNP Wireless.

Certification overview

Cisco CCNP certification is considered as the advanced level of certification which helps to learn more about networking concepts. The CCNA certification is highly required prerequisite when it comes to CCNP certification. It is the needed curriculum one should acquire CCNA as a mandatory requirement. Whether it is large scale or small scale company, this certification plays a big role to get a career enrichment. As a professional level certification, the Cisco program recognizes advanced networking skills set and knowledge base. Each category of the CCNA CCNP certification validates the set of various technology skills to meet the requirements of various job roles.

The Cisco CCNP certification is suitable for various job roles such as:

  • Cisco partners/integraters
  • Technical solution architects
  • Network administrators
  • System engineers
  • Consulting system engineer
  • Network engineers

CCNP certification cost is somewhat affordable and one gain Cisco CCNP certification by undergoing proper training and course. This certification is ideal for any individual who have work experience in the networking field. Certified aspirants can achieve higher goals and attain commendable knowledge on the related specialization. As it already captures attention of many organizations, the scope of the certified is high with great pay. During prepration and training, the candidates are allowed to expose real world and hands on experience which helps to perform the routine task in a better way.

Skills obtained by the CCNP certification are as follows:

Switch virtualization, scalable VPN technology, high availability enables the mobile work and supports branch offices.

IPv6 enables WAN & LAN routing solution and implementing secure to support business critical service.

High availability, multicast, fiber channel, data center interconnect, layer 3 and layer 2 connectivity.

Mobility infrastructure and wireless networks

Listed below are the pathways available in the CCNP certification as follows:

  • CCNP Data Center
  • CCNP Routing and Switching
  • CCNP Security
  • CCNP Service Provider
  • CCNP Service Provider Operations
  • CCNP Voice
  • CCNP Wireless

The CCNP data center is best for technology architects, business services, presale, implementation and design engineers who like to save their money and time on the data center maintenance, design and installation.

CCNP Routing and switching certification help to validate the candidate's knowledge to troubleshoot, verify and implement complex network solution. It is suitable for anyone who like to sharpen their skills and also work on networking field.

The CCNP security certification is aligned especially for the network support engineers that helps to validate configuration, implementing, monitoring and troubleshooting VPNS, IPS/IDS and Firewalls for the networking environments.

The Cisco certified CCNP service provider is for network specialist and engineers to deliver scalable carrier-grade infrastructure which can perform rapid expansion to mainly support customer requirements and new managed services.

The CCNP SP operations certification helps to display the skills and knowledge needed to maintain and troubleshoot SP IP NGN core network infrastructure. With this certification, delegates can implement proactive problems measures, isolate network performance issues, network management system and framework.

CCNP voice certification helps to display advance skills and knowledge to integrate any underlying network architectures. With this certification, any network professional can also create the collaboration solutions which are manageable, scalable and transparent.

The CCNP wireless certification fulfills the need for implementing, operating and designing the mobility infrastructure and wireless networks. The delegates required to have CCNA wireless certification or any CCIE certification as a required prerequisite.

Required exams

The delegates required to complete Cisco CCNA certification before aiming for the CCNP certification. The candidates required to have any CCIE certification as well as corresponding CCNA certification.

Required courses

The aspirants required to take respective Cisco CCNA certification to get eligible for the CCNP certification. It is recommended to undergo proper training offered by the Cisco learning to gain the certification CCNP. The required course for each certification pathway is different from one another and the candidate required to take the Security exam( SISAS, SENSSS, SIMOS and SITCS) for CCNP security, and wireless exams ( CUWSS, IUWVN, IUWMS and IAUWS) for CCNP wireless certification and so on.

Study material

Cisco official website comprises of all the needed information and details about the Cisco certification CCNP study material. Cisco learning resources can provide the most essential study material, books and dumps for the CCNP certification exam. On the other hand, many vendors providing excellent study resources with a wide range of books, dumps, practice test and so on based on the candidate requirements. The hands on lab and e-learning materials plays a big role to obtain great knowledge during preparation.