New Version of CCNP Is Expected at Christmas

by admin on Sep.04, 2009, under Pass4sure News

Recently, a report that Cisco is making a revision onCCNP, and the new edition will be released around Christmas. And it is said that the revision is mainly to comply with CCIEv4.0, which is upgraded from 3.0 before August.

As relevant knowledge such as MPLS is added in CCIEv4.0, and more attention is paid to the examinee’s comprehensive ability to troubleshoot, the difficulty may increases.

The current version of CCNP exams are as follows:

642-901 BSCI Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI)

642-812 BCMSN Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks (BCMSN)

642-825 ISCW Implementing Secure Converged Wide Area Networks (ISCW)

642-845 ONT Optimizing Converged Cisco Networks (ONT)

Or

642-892 Composite Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI)

Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks (BCMSN)

642-825 ISCW Implementing Secure Converged Wide Area Networks (ISCW)

642-845 ONT Optimizing Converged Cisco Networks (ONT)

The upcoming new versions are as follow: ( with the recommended learning)

642-902 Route Exam

Â² Implementing Cisco IP Routing Course

Â² 5-days instructor led training course

Route E-learning Bundle

9 hours of self-spaced demos

642-813 Switch Exam

Â² Implementing Cisco Switched Networks

5-days instructor led training course

642-832 Troubleshoot Exam

Â² Troubleshooting and maintain Cisco IP networks

5-days instructor led training course

Â² Troubleshoot E-learning bundle,

9hours of self-paced demos and exercises

The changes:

642-902 Route Exam:

Knowledge on ISCW may be added, part of MPLS VPN may appear inEIGRP

642-813 Switch Exam:

No big change, except QOS will be included again.

642-832 Troubleshoot Exam:

Comply with the 2 hours trouble shooting in CCIE v4.0.