CISCO NEWS-CISCO INTRODUCES FOUR NEW CAREER CERTIFICATIONCISCO CERTIFIED ARCHITECT(CCA-AVAILABLE JANUARY 2010)
Cisco Certified Architect is the pinnacle for individuals wishing to establish formal validation of both design and IT skills in Cisco technologies and infrastructure.
DEFINING CISCO CERTIFIED ARCHITECT
A Cisco Certified Architect gathers the business requirements and objectives necessary to produce a blueprint for an integrated, large-scale, complex, global network. They can translate business parameters and objectives into functional requirements for a network design. In addition, Cisco Certified Architects can clearly communicate and advocate proposed Cisco network architectures.
RESPONSIBILITY OF CISCO CERTIFIED ARCHITECT
- Lead creation and evolution of enterprise architecture
- Analyze technology and industry market trends
- Establish governing principles for Enterprise networks
- Selection of technology and products
- Identification of organization resource needs
- Lead the development of communication and education plan for enterprise network architecture
CISCO CCNP WIRELESS CERTIFICATION(CCNP WIRELESS CERTIFICATION-AVAILABLE-JULY 24th 2009)
cisco system introduce new career certification of ccnp wireless certification
addressing the need for design, implement, and operating Cisco Wireless networks and mobility infrastructures. CCNP Wireless certification emphasize wireless networking principles and theory. It also recognize the expertise and technical of wireless professionals who can assess and translate network business requirements into technical specification that in turn, are incorporated into successful installations.
CISCO DATA CENTER UNIFIED COMPUTING DESIGN SPECIALIST(AVAILABLE COMING SOON 2009)
The Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Design Specialist validates an engineer’s ability to design scalable, reliable, and intelligent Data Center virtualization solutions based on the Cisco data center Unified Computing System (UCS) along with other Cisco Data Center products, server virtualization software, and server operating systems.
CISCO INTRODUCE NEW SECRET'S NETWORKING IN PH.D
Resembling more a doctorate dissertation than an IT certification, Cisco Systems on Monday unveiled its highest-level networking certification yet, the Cisco Certified Architect.
The Cisco Certified Architect outranks Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) to become the highest level of accreditation achievable within Cisco Career Certifications.
"Think about it as the Ph.D, the doctorate of networking," said Fred Weiller, director of product market for Learning@Cisco.
According to Weiller, as more new technologies are added, Cisco wanted to recognize and certify those who connect business strategy and IT, essentially marrying business' needs to network design. Weiller said the new certification focuses on the ability to see the business value of technology.
The new Cisco Certified Architect certification will recognize architectural experience and competency of network designers who can support the increasingly complex networks of global organizations and translate business strategies into evolutionary technical strategies.
For the channel, that will better enable partners to roll out and support a host of advanced new technologies and showcase their architectural skills. Weiller said certified architects can better deal with technical challenges of clients and earn stronger credibility.
"We applaud Cisco for taking an architectural approach and mapping it to the organization's business requirements," said Robert Stephens, vice president of The Revere Group, in a statement. "As a partner, we spend a great deal of time looking at the network from a global perspective. The new Cisco Certified Architect affirms the need to look at business drivers and validates that an individual possesses not only the expert technical acumen but can communicate the strategic business value of new technologies to senior business executives."
According to Sanjay Mehta, product marketing manager for Learning@Cisco, the new certification is above CCIE in terms of difficulty with a focus on infrastructure expertise and ability to work with executive-level customers to ensure business requirements are tied into successful designs.
Mehta said a Cisco Certified Architect takes a big-picture perspective; focuses on how components are connected and the roles of those components; examines how problems or solutions are similar to others; and focuses on engineering principles like coupling and cohesion. That differs from a network design certification, which concerns itself with specific components and focuses on how those individual components work.
To obtain the new certification, which will be available starting next month, prospects must first pass a board exam. Candidates will propose and defend an architecture solution to a set of business requirements and will then be asked to modify that proposal on the fly based on additional requirements presented by the board.
