All About the Cisco Certified
Network Professional and Design
Professional Certification
The Cisco Certified Arrangement Professional (CCNP) and Cisco Certified Architecture Professional
(CCDP) certifications are the additional akin of Cisco certifications and are acceptable popular
as added incentives become accessible to both acceptance holders and their employers.
Cisco has advised both the CCNP and CCDP certifications as affirmation that an individual
has completed a accurate aisle of testing in the arrangement arena.
The CCNP and CCDP advance crave the applicant to be adequate in avant-garde routing
techniques, switching techniques, and dialup or RAS technology. In accession to those
subjects, the CCNP charge be able to, afterwards a book, configure and troubleshoot a routed
and switched network. The CCDP charge authenticate the accomplishment to abstract a all-inclusive abundance of
user requirements and adapt a scalable architecture that fits the chump needs and
requirements.
The CCNP is a added “hands on” acceptance that involves testing for a array of routing
and switching skills. Both agreement and troubleshooting are covered. Short of the
CCIE, this acceptance is currently one of the best approved after.
The CCDP clue focuses on designing scalable networks application acquisition and switching
technologies. Testing involves the aforementioned array of exams and accountable amount as the CCNP
track, with the barring of the Support exam. Instead, the CCDP clue ends with the Cisco
Internetwork Architecture exam. Because this acceptance focuses on the architecture aspects of
internetworking, it is added ill-fitted for the pre-sales artist or the arrangement architect.
Because both the CCNP and CCDP advance the aforementioned abject set of requirements (except the
final assay in the series), it is not suprising to acquisition that a CCNP can aftermath a solid, scalable
network design, while a CCDP can configure a router in a multiprotocol, routing, and
switching environment. The key affair is the focus of the applicant in the business world.
Neither CCNP nor CCDP acceptance is a “one analysis and you pass” blazon of exam. Instead,
each requires a alternation of either two or four exams. The exams are alone difficult
because of the abyss of compassionate bare for anniversary breadth of concentration. As well, each
certification requires the Cisco Certified Arrangement Associate (CCNA) acceptance as a
prerequisite.
The focus of this book is the alertness and casual of the Cisco CCNP Switching Exam
because this assay (or its content) is appropriate for either CCNP or CCDP.