Cisco Aegis Certifications
Cisco has two acceptance paths for the practitioner to authenticate competence
in Cisco aegis technologies: Cisco Aegis Specialist 1 (CSS-1) and Cisco
Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Security.These two certifications show
that the holder has cogent acquaintance and abilities application and amalgam Cisco
security products, including VPN devices, IDS, and, of course, PIX firewalls.
Cisco Aegis Specialist 1
The CSS-1 acceptance is one of Cisco’s Qualified Specialist designations.A
person who has accomplished the CSS-1 acceptance has accurate through examination
that he or she possesses a agog compassionate of arrangement aegis processes,
technologies, and risks. He or she additionally understands how to deploy, configure, and
manage Cisco aegis accoutrement to abutment efforts in ambit defense, arrangement and
host advance monitoring, and network-level encryption.
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Requirements
The antecedent claim to access the CSS-1 acceptance is a accepted Cisco
Certified Arrangement Associate (CCNA) certification.With that, the candidate
can accept to get specific training through a Cisco Training Partner or Cisco
e-learning to augment and reinforce their abilities or artlessly sit in for the necessary
written exams.There is no claim that the applicant go through training in
order to booty the exams. However, because the exams are absolutely rigorous, the candidate
should ensure that they accommodated all the ability objectives as declared for
each advance and agnate exam.
The accepted four exams that charge be anesthetized to access CSS-1 acceptance are
shown in Table 1.1.
Table 1.1 CSS-1 Acceptance Assay Requirements
Exam Number Training Course
640-100 Managing Cisco Arrangement Aegis (MCNS)
9E0-111 Cisco Secure PIX Firewall Advanced (CSPFA)
9E0-572 Cisco Secure IDS with Policy Manager (IDSPM)
9E0-121 Cisco Secure VPN (CSVPN)
NOTE
Cisco keeps its certifications up to date; therefore, the certification
requirements are consistently changing. Visit Cisco’s Web armpit for the
latest advice on alive exams.
A being with CSS-1 acceptance needs to recertify every two years by
taking a accounting exam. Note that CSS-1 may be a claim for assertive Cisco
partners to get and advance their VPN/Security specialization.