Exams Required for Certification
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The Cisco features that are critical to this endeavor include dial-on-demand, bandwidth-on-
demand, dial backup, snapshot routing, dialer-maps, and dialer profiles. In addition, successful
candidates should be comfortable with Frame Relay, ISDN, PSTN, and X.25.
The target audience for CCNP and CCDP certification includes the following:
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Gold- or Silver-certified partners
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CCNAs who want increased earning power, professional recognition, job promotions, and
so on
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Level 1 network support individuals that want to progress to level 2
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ISP professionals who want to gain a larger understanding of the Internet picture and its
intricacies
A CCNP's training and experience enables him or her to accomplish the following:
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Install and configure a network to minimize WAN costs and to ensure connectivity from
remote sites
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Maximize performance over a WAN link
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Improve network security
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Provide access to remote customers or clients
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Configure queuing for congested links to alleviate occasional congestion
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Provide dial-up connectivity over analog and digital networks
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Implement DDR backup services to protect against down time
Exams Required for Certification
You are required to pass a group of exams for CCNP or CCDP certification. The exams
generally match the same topics that are covered in one of the official Cisco courses. Table 1-1
outlines the exams and the courses with which they are most closely matched.
Table 1-1
Exam-to-Course Mappings
Certification
Exam
Number
Name
Course Most Closely Matching
the Exam's Requirements
CCNA
640-507
CCNA
Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices (ICND)
CCDA
640-441
CCDP
Designing Cisco Networks
CCNP
640-503
Routing
Building Scalable Cisco Networks (BSCN)
640-504
Switching
Building Cisco Multilayer Switched
Networks (BCMSN)
continues