What salaries and jobs align with CCIE, CCNA, and CCNP certifications?
The CCIE, CCNA, and CCNP Cisco certifications along with work experience are aligned to these job opportunities and salary ranges according to our training and Cisco certification expert, David Minutella.
My parents say that it is unnecessary to complete CCNA, CCNP, and CCIE certifications because they have no scope,...
Continue Reading This Article
Enjoy this article as well as all of our content, including E-Guides, news, tips and more.
but I want to try for these exams. I want to know the job opportunities and the salaries or salary ranges associated with them so that I may show them that Cisco is a fast-growing, major sector of IT. How can I prove that earning these certifications will help further my career?
There is definitely scope for these certifications, but with any job opportunity, the scope is affected greatly by the amount of experience that goes along with the certification.
The job opportunity scale from a CCNA to a CCIE ultimately maps to the size of the networks you would be working with. A CCNA technician would typically be some type of network administrator with a possible salary around 50K (in the U.S.). With the CCNP and CCIE, you are looking more at a career as a network engineer or architect whose salary can range from 70-100K depending on the responsibilities and size of the network (and, of course, aforementioned experience).
I hope this helps sway their judgment.
Dig Deeper on Networking Certs and Careers
Have a question for an expert?
Please add a title for your question
Get answers from a TechTarget expert on whatever's puzzling you.
Meet all of our Networking experts
View all Networking questions and answers
Join the conversation
1 comment