The Basic Elements of Cisco Certification

Cisco certification is a worthwhile investment. From an employee's perspective, it means a leg up on your IT competitors and, simply stated, brass in pocket. From an employer's perspective, having network administrators or designers with industry-respected competency credentials adds excellent value in an already much-under qualified employment marketplace. After all, depending on whose statistics you are reading, Cisco owns between 75 and 80 percent of the IP routing market. How does the Cisco Career Certifications program work? If you've done some preliminary research on the Web, then you've probably been flooded with a never-ending sea of acronyms: CCNA, CCNP, CCIE. Practically speaking, what do these certifications mean to you, the prospective employee? Or to you, the prudent employer? In this article I attempt to cut through all the extra marketing fluff and extraneous technical information to give you a clear idea of how Cisco certification works and the factors to consider in deciding which Cisco certification might be right for you.

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