Cisco CCIE Certifications Preparation

Vendor: Cisco

Certification overview

Cisco academy is the world's most renowned IT training academy. Its certificate holders are among the most successful candidates on job interviews and work in the most prominent companies in the field of IT. All professionals seeking for official credential, recognition and certificate that is globally accepted should take some of the CCNA courses. CCNA stands for Cisco Certified Network Associate. Cisco offers a variety of courses for IT specialists and those who are starting their career, from CCNA Voice, CCNA Security, CCNA Service Provider, CCNA Service Provider Operations, CCNA Video, etc. None of the courses has official prerequisite in terms of other courses, but it is advised to take CCNA switching and routing before taking some other CCNA trainings. Among the most wanted courses, CCNA switching and routing and CCNA security are on top. Apart from these, CCNA voice and video are highly popular among IT specialists.

Apart from their standart and traditional teaching methods, which are the regular in-class trainings, Cisco is known for modern, compressed learning methods. These methods are proven to be successful, since most of the candidates do not prefer the traditional teaching methods if they are offered to choose something new. The Cisco school is always innovative and offers their students virtual classrooms, virtual labs access, video tutorials and video teachers. Additionally, CCNA bootcamp has been developed for extra, in-depth and fast learning. Cisco CCNA training is available on a 5-day Cisco CCNA boot camp where you will not only get theoretical knowledge, but also practice in well-equipped labs. The studying and practice on the Cisco CCNA bootcamp is very intensive. In only 5 days, trainees pass modules of installing, operating, maintaining, configuring, troubleshooting networks, WAN, protocoles IP, EIGRP, Ethernet, VLAN and many more. some candidates claim that they have chosen the 5-day CCNA bootcamp since it is not as time-consuming as some other, longer duration programmes they were offered.

In order to make the 5-day studying process more effective, CCNA boot camps are performed by well-instructed teachers who will send you the studying material prior to Cisco CCNA bootcamp launch. This way, you will be able to get to know the subject and to come to the lessons and labs prepared. CCNA boot camp cost is 3.295 USD. The exam price is included. Generally, the exam itself costs 295 USD. This means that the CCNA boot camp, including professional lecturers, access to state-of-the-art labs, practical knowledge, studying materials, all compressed in 5 days costs 3.000 USD.

CCNA bootcamps have shown excellent results in majority of candidates. This fresh concept makes people want to learn fast, thoroughly and get their hands on experience since the motivation and energy of the instructors as well as the fact that the training lasts only five days gives additional motivation to all participants of the CCNA bootcamp.

The number of participants in the CCNA bootcamp is limited to twenty. Class hours are usually from 9 in the morning until 5 in the afternoon. However, all trainees can get the 24 hour access to the labs and classrooms.

After passing the CCNA test, the trainee gets 2 certificates: ccna and ccda. This offer from Cisco is specially designed for CCNA boot camp candidates.

The certification is valid for three years and in order to revalidate it, candidate must pass the CCNA exam once again or pass one of the required exams by Cisco for recertification of CCNA.

Required exams

CCNA programmes require passing an exam guided and designed by Cisco. Some courses have more topics to cover, so the exams are split into two. Other, such as CCNA security certificate requires passing only one exam, in this case, the 640-554 IINS exam. Getting the CCNA Data center certificate requires passing 640-911 DCICN and 640-916 DCICT exams. CCNA service provider also has two exams to pass, 640 – 875 SPNGN1 and SPNGN2. 640 760 SSPO is the only exam required to take for the CCNA service provider operations.

Required courses

The courses that are required to take when attending the CCNA boot camp are Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices – Part of the course 1, which is marked as ICND1 in Cisco and Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices - Part of the course 2, marked as ICND2.

Study material

All material needed for preparing the CCNA exams is available from the official Cisco page. Additionally, the instructors will provide material for trainees. Online training also accounts for a significant part of studying tools, such as videos, tutorials and sample tests.