Overview of CCNP Exam and Certification
The Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) is a one (big) step ahead of the CCNA level. The CCNP certification validates an individual’s networking skills at the mid-career level. This advanced network implementation certification are becoming increasingly popular. It is often used as a step to achieve the CCIE status. It also opens a wider career opportunity for network administrators/engineers. CCNP requires you to pass either four core exams or one foundation and one support exam.
Defenitely as an advanced level certification, CCNP exams are much more difficult than the CCNA exam. Cisco expects all CCNP candidates to fully understand the advanced networking concepts being examed. Each of the CCNP exam has been created in a way to make sure that the candidates posses the knowledge and skills required to support a more complex Cisco network. Fill-in-the-blank questions that ask you to type in a correct IOS command, select and place (drag and drop) questions, and especially the newly introduced router and switch simulation questions have been specifically designed to raise the level of difficulty of the exam. By maintaining or even increasing the exam standard, Cisco wants to make sure that every CCNP is actually better than those who are not certified.
However, please do not get discouraged by this. While difficult, passing the exam is certainly attainable with proper training and preparation. We are here to help anybody with a willingness to achieve success. If you plan your study correctly and assess your knowledge using our sophisticated SavvyEngine exam simulator, you will have a good chance to pass the CCNP exam the first time.
What Can a CCNP Do?
The CCNP certification (Cisco Certified Network Professional) indicates advanced or journeyman knowledge of networks. With a CCNP, a network professional can install, configure, and troubleshoot local and wide area networks for enterprise organizations with networks from 100 to more than 500 nodes. The content emphasizes topics such as security, converged networks, quality of service (QoS), virtual private networks (VPN) and broadband technologies.
A CCNP certified individual can perform the following tasks:
Implement appropriate technologies to build a scalable routed network
Build campus networks using multilayer switching technologies
Improve traffic flow, reliability, redundancy, and performance for campus LANs, routed and switched WANs, remote access, virtual private networks (VPN), and broadband networks
Create and deploy a global intranet
Troubleshoot an environment that uses
Cisco routers and switches for multiprotocol client hosts and services
Free CCNP Exam Simulators
Are you still not sure and want to have a exam drive on SavvyEngine? Don’t worry, we are happy to provide you a free version of the exam simulator. You can download and review the free version of the CCNP exam simulators here. Don’t forget to come back here again to get the full version with more than 250 questions afterwards.
