Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)

Skill Level: Intermediate                            Status: Active                           

Certification Summary:
For individuals who have at least one year of networking experience and are ready to advance their skills and work independently on complex network solutions. CCNPs plan, implement, verify and troubleshoot local and wide-area enterprise networks and work collaboratively with specialists on advanced security, voice, wireless and video solutions.

Initial requirements:
You must hold a valid CCNA or any CCIE designation.
Beginning August 1, 2010, you must pass three exams: ROUTE, SWITCH, and EITHER TSHOOT BETA OR TSHOOT. Exams are 2 hours each.

Continuing requirements:
Certification is valid for three years. To recertify, pass any 642 exam that is part of the professional level curriculum or any CCIE/CCDE written exam before the certification expiration date.

Low Cost: $600   High Cost: $0

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Online resources:
A comprehensive CCNA certification training package for exams 640-822 ICND1 and 640-816 ICND2, and for combined CCNA Exam 640-802 is available from our partner CBT Nuggets.

Offline resources:
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