Cisco Systems CCNP Track
For years the Cisco Certified Network
Professional (CCNP) certification is
regarded by the telecommunication industry
as one of the most valued certificates to have.
For that reason many telecommunication pro-
fessionals have certified as CCNP and many
more are in the process of certifying as CCNP.
Cisco Systems wants the CCNP certificate
to hold its value and for that reason requires
CCNPs to recertify on a regular basis. For the
same reason Cisco Systems has decided that
the skills and knowledge required to be CCNP
today differ significantly from those that are
required and tested in today’s CCNP certifica-
tion track. As a result, the content of the CCNP
track has changed thoroughly.
Wireless LAN is added to the BCMSN 3.0
course and exam.
IPv6 and Multicast Routing are added to the
BSCI 3.0 course and exam.
BCRAN is removed and replaced by the
Implementing Secure Converged Wide
Area Networks (ISCW) 1.0 course and
exam. This covers Cable and DSL broadband
access, basic MPLS/MPLS VPN, and IOS
Security features including VPN (IPSec and
GRE/IPSEC), Easy VPN, IOS Firewall, IOS IPS,
AutoSecure, Role Based CLI. SDM is also
featured in the course and in the labs.
CIT is removed and replaced by the Opti-
mized Converged Cisco Networks
(ONT) 1.0 course and exam. This covers
VoIP network essentials and VoIP related
challenges. To ensure the quality in a con-
verged network, concepts and implementa-
tion methods for quality of service (QoS) is
covered. Wireless security standards and
Cisco Wireless LAN (WLAN) network is also
covered.
CCNP Course & Exam Release and
EOL Timetable ** Updated ! **
The table below presents the end-of-life (EOL)
dates of the old courses and exams and the
release date of the new courses and exams.
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New
CCNP Certification Policy
No candidate for CCNP will be required to
pass more that four exams.
The current BCMSN - 642-811, BSCI - 642-
801, BCRAN - 642-821, CIT - 642-831 and
COMPOSITE – 642-891 exams have a last day
to register of 15/11/2006 with a last day to
complete the exams of 31/12/2006.
The new BCMSN - 642-812, BSCI - 642-901,
ISCW - 642-825, and ONT - 642-845 exams
are available 15/08/2006. The new COM-
POSITE (642-892) exam will be released in
November 2006.
Mixing and Matching replacing BCRAN with
ISCW and CIT with ONT will complete CCNP
certification.
BSCI => BSCI 3.0
BCMSN = BCMSN 3.0
CIT => ONT 1.0
BCRAN => ISCW 1.0
A candidate has three years from the date the
first exam was taken and passed to com-
plete all exams within that track to obtain a
certification.
CCNP Recertification Policy
Effective 18/08/2006, individuals who hold an
active CCNP, CCDP, CCIP, CCSP, or CCVP will
re-certify their professional level certifications
when they pass any (642 exam) Cisco profes-
sional level certification exam.
Certification holders will continue to re-certify
their professional level certifications when
they pass any CCIE written exam.
Telindus John Cordier Academy
Information
Unfortunately Cisco Systems has send us the
news of these changes after our schedule was
already finished and send to you, our custom-
ers, by means of our brochures and web site.
Because the new courses differ significantly
from the old courses, and because Cisco has
given a strict time schedule for migration to
the new courses, we were obliged to cancel a
number of course sessions to make room for
these new courses. In particular the following
course sessions have been cancelled:
- BCRAN 09-13/10/2006 and 18-22/12/2006
- CIT 23-27/10/2006 and 15-19/01/2007
- CSVPN 06-09/11/2006 and 18-21/12/2006
- QOS 18-22/12/2006
The following courses were added:
- BSCI 3.0 27/11-01/12/2006, 11-15/12/2006
and 22-26/01/2007 (previous BSCI sessions
are BSCI 2.2 sessions)
- BCMSN 3.0 04-08/12/2006 and 22-
26/01/2007 (previous BSMSN sessions are
BCMSN 2.2 sessions)
- ISCW 1.0 06-10/11/2006
- ONT 1.0 18-22/12/2006
We are very sorry for any inconvenience
this has caused you. Please visit the revised
schedule on our web site (www.jcacademy.
com) or call us (+32 16 38 28 18) when you
have further questions.