Taught primarily at the post-secondary and higher education level,
the 280-hour CCNP® curriculum requires students to have a CCNA®
certification. This advanced curriculum trains students to install,
configure and operate local and wide area networks, and dial access
services for organizations of networks from 100 or more modes with
protocols and technologies. It focuses on developing skills that
enable students to implement scalable networks, build campus
networks using multilayer switching technologies, create and deploy
a global intranet, and troubleshoot an environment using Cisco
routers and switches for multiprotocol client hosts and services.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an
official Cisco Networking Academy Certificate of Completion and are
prepared to take the CCNP® certification exam. CCNA® and CCNP®
together form a strong foundation, which may be built upon with
additional coursework to prepare for the Cisco Certified
Internetwork Expert (CCIE™) certification. CCIE™ is the industry’s
most respected certification for a network professional.
The CCNP® course will help prime students for career opportunities
such as a network engineer, network architect, systems analyst,
testing engineer, information systems architect, and systems
integrator. For higher education bound students, this course will
help ready them to enter an electrical engineering, a computer
science, or a management information systems degree program – some
universities have adopted CCNP® as part of a degree program.
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