Expert Advice To Become A Network Professional

You are already certified with CCNA then this is great opportunity to move ahead in your career. Since you have already gone through the certification at Cisco this may not be a major problem. Yet all the same it is better to get more. CCNP is Cisco’s middle level certification. It requires more time and effort. The resources needed are also more when compared to CCNA.

You need to pass four exams to get a CCNP

• Building Scalable Cisco Inter-networks
• Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks
• Building Cisco Remote Access Networks
• Cisco Inter-network Troubleshooting

Study Resources

Get Syllabus

• Building Scalable Cisco Networks
• Managing Traffic and Congestion in different networks
• Advanced Cisco Router Configuration
• Routing Protocols configuration and optimization
• Bridges
• Remote Access set up and configuration IP, X.25, Frame Relay etc.
• Switching design and configuration of ports, VLANS,
• Cisco Internetworking Troubleshooting TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, Appletalk, VLAN’s, Frame-Relay, ISDN.

Visit Vendor

The Vendor usually has the most relevant material and links to learn. Also it has related information about learning partners. The Cisco press prints books with specific intention for documentation for the examination. You could check out the links given below

http://www.cisco.com/

http://www.cisco.com/public/support/tac/documentation.html

http://www.ciscopress.com/index.asp

Study Material

Books are the best way of studies and a few of the books that could help you in the endeavor of Cisco certification are

• Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks Study Guide by Terry Jack
• Building Scalable Cisco Inter-networks Study Guide by Carl Timm
• CCNP BCMSN Exam Cram 2 by Richard A Deal
• CCNP Certification Library by Clare Gough
• CCNP Study Guide Kit, by Wade Edwards
• Cisco Inter-network Troubleshooting Study Guide by Arthur Pfund

For other important resources you could refer Cisco Website or any other web site that had resources for CCNP. http://www.simulationexams.com/misc/ccnp-references.htm is one such page that takes you to specific resources offered by Cisco. Brain dumps are sites that collect information that is required to study for exams you could search for CCNP brain dumps to find links to many other resources.

Test of Knowledge

The final stage of preparation is practice examination. You could search the web for CCNP test questions. Some practice examinations are free of cost, others cost money. The reason why you need to take practice exams are

• Practice test present material in different ways
• The candidate finds the distinction between the various topics they learn about
• It brings about familiarity with the actual test.

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