Cisco Career Certification Series â… : Entry Level Certification

by admin on Sep.09, 2009, under Articlebase

IT career certifications of Cisco, a multinational cooperation who provides network services, win world-wide respect in IT industry. Numerable choices of different Cisco IT career certifications made it possible to select the specific area one interested and accomplished.

Cisco offers IT career certifications mainly in 5 levels (Entry, Associate, Professional, Expert and Architect) while in 7 different paths (Routing & Switching, Design, Network Security, Service Provider, Storage Networking, Voice, and Wireless).

Here is the first level of Cisco career certification: Entry level

Certification for Entry level is CCENT (Cisco Certificated Entry Networking Technician), an interim step to Associate level or directly with CCNA and CCDA certifications. Possessing skills of installing, operating, and troubleshooting a small enterprise branch network are the basic demand of being CCENT certified professionals.

There is no prerequisite of taking CCENT exam and the required exam is 640-822 ICND1 of 90 minutes. The exam includes topics on networking fundamentals; connecting to a WAN; basic security and wireless concepts; routing and switching fundamentals; the TCP/IP and OSI models; IP addressing; WAN technologies; operating and configuring IOS devices; configuring RIPv2, static and default routing; implementing NAT and DHCP; and configuring simple networks. To recertified the certification, one need to take the exam within 3 years after getting it or take any available exams of high-level certifications.

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