Bridge the Gap - Cisco Professional Level - Overview

Let Global Knowledge help you bridge the gap between foundation and expertise with Cisco's Professional level of qualifications.

At this level the certifications are more tailored towards the individuals specific job role or business needs, currently there are five professional certification offerings.

CCDP - Validates an individual's networking skills at the mid-career level and will increase your ability to design complex,multiprotocol internetworks for enterprise organisations.

A CCDP certified individual will be able to:

• Determine customer requirements for network performance,security,capacity and scalability.
• Design an internetwork architecture that meets customer requirements and may include campus LAN's,route and switched WAN's, and remote access networks.
• Articulate the benefits of the design to a customers satisfaction
• Develop and test a prototype network that validates the design-and demonstrates that to a customers satisfaction.

CCIP - Validates an individual's detailed understanding of the diverse technologies in networking,  including IP routing, quality of service (QoS), BGP, and MPLS. CCIP delegates will demonstrate skills in a range of functions from planning to troubleshooting service provider networks.

A CCIP certified individual will be able to:

• Perform complex planning, operations, installations, implementations, and troubleshooting.
• Understand and manage complex communications networks - last mile,edge or core.

CCNP - Validates an individual's networking skill and indicates knowledge of networking for organisations whose networks have from 100 to more than 500 nodes.

A CCNP certified individual will be able to:

• Implement appropriate technologies to build a scaleable 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.
• Deploy QoS, VPN, and converged networks in the enterprise.
• Troubleshoot an environment that uses Cisco routers and switches for multiprotocol client hosts and services.

CCNP Security - Validates knowledge and skills needed to build comprehensive, integrated network security solutions. which has become more in demand as organisations respond to the heightened need for integrated network security solutions.

A CCNP Security certified individual will be able to:

• Secure the network infrastructure using Cisco security products and integrated
  technologies.
• Deploy perimeter security, VPNs, and intrusion protection technologies and solutions.
• Monitor and detect relevant security events.
• Manage network security to protect productivity gains and reduce costs.

CCNP Voice - Validates a robust set of skills in implementing, operating, configuring and troubleshooting a converged IP network. and provides a comprehensive curriculum focused on Cisco CallManager call-processing systems, quality of service (QoS), gateways, gatekeepers, IP phones and voice applications and utilities on Cisco routers and Cisco Catalyst® switches. CCNP Voice certification is targeted to field engineers, network engineers, systems engineers, telecommunications equipment installers and others who currently install, configure and support IP telephony solutions, private branch exchanges (PBXs) and voice-mail systems.  

• Demonstrate a high level of expertise with complex enterprise CallManager and IP Networks
• Demonstrate the use of Cisco QoS features such as queuing, congestion avoidance, traffic policing, shaping and link-efficiency mechanisms in optimizing network traffic for voice and other related applications.
• verify their knowledge and skills in configuring Cisco IOS® Software for managing voice traffic on IP networks using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), H.323 standards-based IP telephony systems and Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) group of protocols on voice-over-IP (VoIP) infrastructures.