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Introduction
What Are the CCNP Certification Skills?
Cisco is demanding a certain level of proficiency for its CCNP certification. In
addition to those required for the CCNA, these skills include the following:
Installing, configuring, operating, and troubleshooting complex
routed LAN, routed WAN, and switched LAN networks, and Dial
Access Services.
Understanding complex networks, such as IP, IGRP, IPX, Async
Routing, AppleTalk, extended access-lists, IP RIP, route redistribu-
tion, IPX RIP, route summarization, OSPF, VLSM, BGP, Serial,
IGRP, Frame Relay, ISDN, ISL, X.25, DDR, PSTN, PPP, VLANs,
Ethernet, ATM LAN-emulation, access-lists, 802.10, FDDI, and
transparent and translational bridging.
To meet the Cisco Certified Network Professional requirements, you
must be able to perform the following:
Install and/or configure a network to increase bandwidth, quicken
network response times, and improve reliability and quality of service.
Maximize performance through campus LANs, routed WANs, and
remote access.
Improve network security.
Create a global intranet.
Provide access security to campus switches and routers.
Provide increased switching and routing bandwidth--end-to-end
resiliency services.
Provide custom queuing and routed priority services.
How Do You Become a CCNP?
After becoming a CCNA, the four exams you must take to get your CCNP
are as follows:
Exam 640-503: Routing This exam continues to build on the fundamentals
learned in the CCNA course. It focuses on large multiprotocol internetworks
and how to manage them with access-lists, queuing, tunneling, route distribu-
tion, router maps, BGP, OSPF, and route summarization.
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