Posted by Kelson Lawrence on Tue, Feb 08, 2011 @ 10:20 AM
By Bryan Baize, CCIE #16139
Cisco has recently announced a revamp of the CCNP program. To begin this process, Cisco ordered a Job Task Analysis (JTA) to discover what the marketplace really expects from a CCNP certified professional. The participants in the JTA included subject matter experts from all over the world.
The results of the JTA indicate that it is time for the CCNP to get back to the basics of routing and switching and also bring back troubleshooting. Overall, the marketplace would like the CCNP professional to be a more a self-sufficient and freethinking network engineer. The IT professionals surveyed indicated that the CCNP job role would include three items:
- planning
- network maintenance
- troubleshooting
Cisco developed the new program around several goals, including:
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