Cisco CCNA Service Provider Certification

Certification: Cisco CCNA Service Provider - Cisco Certified Network Associate Service Provider

Certification Overview

Among many IT certificates available today, most IT professionals choose Cisco for their education provider. Cisco certificates are renowned, globally accepted, have relatively long periods of validity and simple terms of recertification. Cisco academy has highly qualified instructors, great study materials and professional staff. Additionally, most candidates are amazed with their labs, which are state-of-the –art in the IT industry. Apart from this, the Cisco courses cover a wide range of topics within a course. Therefore, having finished one of the trainings means that you are ready to work in that field. The employers also know and value this, so the candidates with a Cisco certificate in their CV are more respected than those without it, in the very begining. They have passed a thorough training and strict exam, which means, both for the employees and the employers, that they are ready to cope with demanding and challenging work environment in the IT industry today.

The Cisco candidates are always welcome to choose the way they want to learn, from online courses which are a must in today's hectic working hours and tempo of life, up to intensive trainings of only 5 days, called Cisco boot camps, which are trending now.

Among the most popular Cisco trainings are those from the Associate goup of courses, perhaps because there is the biggest IT professionals number within this category. Additionally, this category offers interesting courses, from CCNA Data center, CCNA Security, CCNA Switching nad Routing, which holds the title of leading course for many years. Another very much demanded course is the CCNA service provider. This programme covers topics such as IP NGN, which stands for IP next generation network, which is valued by the employees today since it introduces new concepts, modern, reliable and functional models in network building. IOS, IOS XE and IOS XR are covered by the CCNA sp as well. Trainees will be able to work with unified views of the already mentioned architectures, work with LAN verifications, trunking, OSPF and IS-IS verifications and configuring, as well as MPLS LDP and GLBP configuring.

CCNA service provider book is the number one recommended learning material. However, remote lab access, virtual lessons, videos and tutorials are all very welcome, as well as sample test, in the phase of preparation for exam. Quick learning modules with only 15- 20 minutes duration are excellent for those who have full schedule and hardly find enough time for conventional studying.

Who should take this certification?

This certification is recommended for professionals looking for extra knowledge in the field of IOS, IOS XE, XR and OSPF, and all topics related to Next generation networks.

Benefits

Benefits from taking this training are numerous. increased chances of getting employed, possible promotions, increased income, but, more importantly, unforgettable experience and valuable knowledge gain.

Associated exams

Alike the training, the exams are separated into two sequences. The first part is done according to the first module of lectures and the second to the part 2 of the training. after passing these two exams, the certificate can be obtained.

Prerequisites

There are no official required courses, certifications or exams to be taken before enrolling into this training. however, since the course and exams are separated into two parts, it is recommended to complete the first part of training prior to enrolling into the second, since they are complementary and part 2 is a logical continuation of part 1.

Exam overview

The exam is consisted of two parts that follow two course modules and their topics as well. Each exam lasts for 90 minutes and both exams together have from 130 to 150 questions. Topics – questions coverage varries from topic to topic. Some of the topics are:

• Next generation networks
• Switched networks
• Routed networks
• Ip
• Data network devices

Validity of certification

The CCNA sp certification is valid for 3 years after completion of the training and obtaining the certificate. Cisco offers completing one of many courses related to these topics from their academy in order to renew the license. However, if the candidate's license has expired, he or she will be required to take the training and the exam once more in order to get the certificate again.

Expert review

I worked as a technician, entry level engineer in a renowned IT company and they sent me to education when they were making revision of staff. I was amazed with the CCNA sp programme, Cisco approach to learning, staff, learning material and their flexibility, as well as coverage of topics with the course. Having obtained this certificate brought me to a promotion on my job as well!

Bob Calbright