With more and more of our clients moving to Cisco’s voice platform we have been busy ensuring our team has enough Cisco talent to succeed. In just the last two weeks we have gone from two Cisco certifications to more than eight ten! Please congratulate our newest team members with Cisco’s CCNA: Andrew, Kristine, Jay, Ritchie, Joy, Mark, Ryan, and Daryl and CCNP: Andrew and Ron (Ron also has his ITIL certification).

CCNA stands for the Cisco Certified Network Associate certification from Cisco. CCNA certification is a second-level Cisco Career certification. CCNA certification validates the ability to install, configure, operate, and troubleshoot medium-size routed and switched networks, including implementation and verification of connections to remote sites in a WAN.

To achieve CCNA certification, one must earn a passing score on Cisco exam #640-802, or combined passing scores on both the ICND1 #640-822 and ICND2 #640-816 exams. Passing the ICND1 grants one the Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician (CCENT).

The CCNP is considered proof of having the ability to work with medium-sized networks with technology such as QoS, broadband, VPNs, and security-minded features. In addition to CCNA exams, professionals must pass either four separate exams, or a composite exam along with two separate exams.