The Cisco CCNP curriculum is designed for students seeking career oriented, enterprise-level networking skills. CCNP helps students develop the skills needed to succeed in ICT-related degree and diploma programs and prepare for the Cisco CCNP certification. It provides a theoretically rich, hands-on learning experience covering advanced routing, switching, and troubleshooting skills. CCNP provides a next step for CCNA Discovery or CCNA Exploration students who want to build on their CCNA-level skill set to further a career in computer networking.
CCNP equips students with the knowledge and skills needed to plan, implement, secure, maintain, and troubleshoot converged enterprise networks. The CCNP curriculum consists of three courses:
CCNP ROUTE: Implementing IP Routing
CCNP SWITCH: Implementing IP Switching
CCNP TSHOOT: Maintaining and Troubleshooting IP Networks.
Syllabus
CCNP ROUTE: Implementing IP Routing
This course teaches students how to implement, monitor, and maintain routing services in an enterprise network. Students will learn how to plan, configure, and verify the implementation of complex enterprise LAN and WAN routing solutions, using a range of routing protocols in IPv4 and IPv6 environments. The course also covers the configuration of secure routing solutions to support branch offices and mobile workers. Comprehensive labs emphasize hands-on learning and practice to reinforce configuration skills.
CCNP SWITCH: Implementing IP Switching
This course teaches students how to implement, monitor, and maintain switching in converged enterprise campus networks. Students will learn how to plan, configure, and verify the implementation of complex enterprise switching solutions. The course also covers the secure integration of VLANs, WLANs, voice, and video into campus networks. Comprehensive labs emphasize hands-on learning and practice to reinforce configuration skills.
CCNP TSHOOT: Maintaining and Troubleshooting IP Networks
This course teaches students how to monitor and maintain complex, enterprise routed and switched IP networks. Skills learned include the planning and execution of regular network maintenance, as well as support and troubleshooting using technology based processes and best practices, based on systematic and industry recognized approaches. Extensive labs emphasize hands-on learning and practice to reinforce troubleshooting techniques.
CCNP ROUTE and CCNP SWITCH are both prerequisites for this course.
Industry-Recognized Certification
The CCNP curriculum helps students prepare for the Cisco CCNP certification exams. The CCNP certification validates a network professional’s ability to install, configure, and troubleshoot converged local and wide area networks. CCNP offers a career development path for Cisco CCNA certified network engineers and a solid foundation for those who are interested in the Cisco CCIE® certification.
The CCNP certification requires candidates to pass three 120-minute exams—ROUTE #642-902, SWITCH #642-813, and TSHOOT #642-832—that validate the key competencies of network engineers.
Careers
The CCNP curriculum was designed to reflect the job skills and responsibilities that are associated with professional-level job roles such as network engineer, systems engineer, network support engineer, network administrator, network consultant , and system integrator.