CCNP

From the skilful crafting of our unique curriculum to our careful selection of courseware to every detail of your training comfort, Firebrand Training is the best way to obtain your CCNP certification. Other training providers cannot match our commitment to quality instruction-led training and top-notch educational facilities.







Cisco - CCNP - Benefits
Technical certification is a sound investment in your career. Although certification does not guarantee success, research has shown that it can have a significant impact on:

• Morale and confidence
  
• Efficiency and productivity on the job
  
• Monetary rewards
  
• Career advancement

Build Your Skills And Your Career: Certify Yourself
Cisco CCNP certification enhances your career path by:

• Validating achievements, knowledge and hands-on skill base
  
• Increasing professional credibility
  
• Diversifying and heightening skills, ensuring the ability to tackle the newest, cutting-edge technologies.

A CCNP can do the following:

• Implement appropriate technologies to build a scalable routed network
  
• Build campus networks using multilayer switching technologies
  
• Improve traffic flow, reliability, redundancy, and performance for campus LANs, routed and switched WANs, and remote access networks
  
• Create and deploy a global intranet
  
•  Troubleshoot an environment that uses Cisco routers and switches for multiprotocol client hosts and services

Positions for a CCNP include:

•  Network administrator
  
• Level 2 support engineer
  
• Level 2 systems engineer
  
• Network technician
  
• Deployment engineer

The Cisco CCNP certification indicates advanced, or 'journeyman', knowledge of networks.  With a CCNP, a network professional can install, configure, and operate LAN, WAN, and dial access services for organizations with networks from 100 to more than 500 nodes, including but not limited to these protocols:

• IP
  
•  IGRP
  
• IPX
  
• Async Routing
  
• AppleTalk
  
• Extended Access Lists
  
• IP RIP
  
• Route Redistribution
  
• RIP
  
• Route Summarization
  
• OSPF
  
• VLSM
  
• BGP
  
• Serial
  
• Frame Relay
  
• ISDN
  
• ISL
  
• X.25
  
• DDR
  
• PSTN
  
• PPP
  
• VLANs
  
• Ethernet
  
• Access Lists
  
• 802.1D
  
• FDDI
  
• Transparent and Translational Bridging.

Cisco certification also affords you special membership benefits:

• A certificate of accomplishment
  
• The CCNP wallet card, logo and designation for your personal promotion to clients or potential employers
  
• Access to the secure Cisco on-line tracking system so you can download logos, and track your Cisco certification progress throughout your career
  
• Your investment in your certification may be crucial to your career!

With Firebrand Training, you will:

• Learn all of the fundamentals
  
• Hone your implementation and troubleshooting skills
  
• Improve your creative thinking skills
  
• Obtain your certification

Other accelerated training providers rely heavily on lecture and independent self-testing and study.
Effective technical instruction must be highly varied and interactive to keep attention levels high, promote camaraderie and teamwork between the students and instructor, and solidify knowledge through hands-on learning.
Firebrand Training provides instruction to meet every learning need, including:

• Intensive group instruction
  
• One-on-one instruction attention
  
• Hands-on labs
  
• Lab partner and group exercises
  
• Question and answer drills
  
• Friendly competitions between concurrently running classes
  
• Independent study
  
• Self-testing
  

Other training providers rely heavily on lecture, self-testing and self-study.
Our approach is highly varied and interactive to keep your attention, promote teamwork, and reinforce knowledge gained through hands-on learning.
You will:
Be Immersed into a distraction-free environment - escaping your normal routine and focusing purely on learning.
Experience Accelerated Learning methods – designed to help you learn much more quickly, spend less time out of the office, and see returns from your investment straight away.
Be Measured through on-site exam testing - creating a complete feedback loop that ensures you understand the subject thoroughly.
With Firebrand Training, you will learn more.
This information has been provided as a helpful tool for candidates considering certification. Benefits of certification determined through studies do not guarantee any particular personal successes. Firebrand Training provides a guarantee of obtaining certification at the camp, but does not make any guarantees about personal successes or benefits of obtaining certification.







Cisco - CCNP - Curriculum
Day 1 to 3
Routing, EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS. IPv6, Multicast, BGP, DHCP
Day 4
Review/Test BSCI (642-901)
Day 5 to 6
VLANs, VTP, Inter-VLAN Routing, Switched Security, VoIP, Redundancy, Wireless
Day 7
Testing: 642-812 Building Converged Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks

 
Day 8 to 9  
VoIP, DiffServ QoS, AutoQoS, WLAN Security
Day 10
Review/ Test (642-845) Optimising Converged Cisco Networks
Day 11 to 12  
Network Securities, Device Hardening, Cisco IOS Firewall, IOS IPS, MPLS, Cable/xDSL, VPN
Day 13
Review/Test (642-825) Implementing Secure Converged Wide Area Networks

 
Cisco® Press Courseware
The Cisco® ISBN Library includes:

• Building Scalable Cisco® Internetworks


• Building Cisco® Multilayered Switched Networks


• Implementing Secure Converged Wide Area Networks


• Optimizing Converged Cisco Networks

Cisco - CCNP - Exam Track
642-901 BSCI
Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks
642-812 BCMSN
Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks
642-845 ONT
Optimizing Converged Cisco Networks
642-825 ISCW
Implementing Secure Converged Wide Area Networks







Cisco - CCNP - What's Included
The complete Cisco Press courseware
Our accelerated program includes the most comprehensive industry courseware available - which serve as excellent post-class reference material.  In addition, students receive access to our online pre-class study materials immediately upon program registration.With Firebrand, you benefit from top-quality education in an all-inclusive course package specifically designed for the needs and ease of our students. We attend to every detail so you can focus solely on your studies and certification goals.
You’ll get a robust set of course materials that cater to each of our three key individual learning styles (auditory, visual, and kinaesthetic-tactile) - critical for a successful learning experience.
And there's more. Along with daily lectures, exercises, and review sessions, you’ll also get:
Our Certification Programs include*

• Intensive Hands-on Training Utilising our (Lecture | Lab | Review)TM Delivery


• Comprehensive study materials and courseware - we adapt official curriculum to address the demands of accelerated learners


• Self-testing software and/or mock exam papers
  
• Fully instructor-led program with 24 hour lab access


• Exam vouchers


• On site testing


• Accommodation, all meals, drinks and snacks


• Our Certification Guarantee - because we're sure you'll pass first time, if don’t pass your exams, come back to the course within a year and you only pay for accommodation and exam vouchers - everything else is free

* Please note:

• Our ISC(2) Cissp CBK Review program differs from normal course delivery. For more details, speak to us on 080 80 800 888.


• Exam vouchers for our (ISC)2 certifications need to be purchased directly from (ISC)2


• On site testing is not included in our Scrum, ISACA or PMI certifications

Our instructors teach to accommodate every student's learning needs through individualised instruction, hands-on labs, lab partner and group exercises, independent study, self-testing, and question/answer drills.
Firebrand Training has dedicated, well-equipped educational facilities where you will attend instruction and labs and have access to comfortable study and lounging rooms. Our students consistently say our facilities are second-to-none.
Examination Passing Policy
Should a student complete a Firebrand Training Program without having successfully passed all vendor examinations, the student may re-attend that program for a period of one year.  Students will only be responsible for accommodations and vendor exam fees.








Cisco - CCNP - Prerequisites
Firebrand Training staff interview all potential students regarding their technical background, degrees and certifications held, and personal fortitude.  This screening process ensures a successful match between the customer and Firebrand Training toward accelerated training and certification.
Students who are successful in CCNP™ certification preparation training may possess

• Strong DOS and Windows skill


• Willingness to work hard and learn


• CCNA Required

6 months experience in a Cisco networking environment

• Comfortable with basic routing protocol configurations


• Know IP subnetting and IP routing concepts


• Routing and switching fundamentals

Students who are successful in accelerated training and certification ALL possess

• The drive and motivation to succeed and advance their careers.

Cisco CCNA Certification is a prerequisite for registering for the Cisco CCNP certification examinations.We interview all applicants for the course on their technical background, degrees and certifications held, and general suitability. If you get through this screening process, it means you stand a great chance of passing.
Firebrand Training is an immersive training environment. You must be committed to the course. The above prerequisites are guidelines, but many students with less experience have other background or traits that have enabled their success in accelerated training through Firebrand Training.