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Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)

Contributor(s): Ed Tittel

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) is an intermediate-level certification in the Cisco certified professional program. This certification is aimed at full-time network or system administrators, or those who work with local and/or wide-area network (LAN/WAN)infrastructure.

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karanrana143 - 25 Feb 2016 3:41 AM

What Cisco Certified Network Professional certificate in government?

ToddN2000 - 26 Feb 2016 8:22 AM

How important is the certification to get if you have the skills. I know a friend who been in networking for a long time (20+ years) but never got the certifications. Will he have trouble finding a future job if it comes down to having to look ?

stephenmuray - 26 Mar 2017 4:03 PM

The CCNP is highly recommended if you are looking to start your IT networking career off properly. I have seen many corporate positions that absolutely require this cert to touch anything related to their networks. If you have a lot of previous experience in networking this will definitely make studying for the exam that much easier.

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