Associate, Professional, Expert: Cisco Certification Can Advance Your Career

By Emily Kerr
Emily.kerr@technicaltrainingprograms.com
Technical Training Programs Columnist

Businesses, educational institutions, government agencies, even home communications depend on computer networks and are looking for Internet Protocol-based networking solutions. Cisco Systems is a leader in networking systems. If you're looking to work in networking, you should be considering Cisco certification.

Cisco Career Certifications can lead you onward and upward in a computer networking career, whether your goal in Cisco training is to find a job as a network professional, manager or within an organization.

Cisco Certification Levels

If you're looking for Cisco certification training, you might want to look at a Cisco certification course. There are three levels to certification - associate, professional and expert - and certifications in specialist areas such as security, IP telephony, and wireless.

The Associate Cisco certification level is the first step in Cisco networking. It's the basis for everything that comes after.

Professional is the Cisco certification for advanced networking, and Expert is the highest level, the CCIE designation meaning the individual is an expert in Cisco networking.

Cisco Certification Online

If you choose to take Cisco certification training classes online, you'll have the opportunity to:

• work online at your own pace;
• study around your own schedule with a flexible schedule
• learn from courses with sound principles geared toward adult learning and information processing

But whether you choose to take classes online or in a brick-and-mortar facility, a Cisco certification could propel you light years ahead in your networking career.

Sources:

Cisco Certifications Overview
Benefits of University of Phoenix

About the Author

Emily Kerr is a freelance writer with over 425 articles in print. She writes about everything from technology to education to food, and combines the topics whenever she can.

Posted on: November 16, 2005