Requirements For CCNA Certification

Online, January 5, 2011 (Newswire.com) - CCNA stands for Cisco certified network associate is one of the networking certifications where lots of career opportunities are waiting for IT professionals. This entry level of certification is a perquisite for certifying CCNA and CCIE. CCNA exam tests a candidate's knowledge and skills required to install, operate, and troubleshoot a small to medium size enterprise branch network system. The topics comes under this exam include connecting to a WAN; implementing network security; network types; network media; routing and switching fundamentals; the TCP/IP and OSI models; IP addressing; WAN technologies; operating and configuring IOS devices; extending switched networks with VLANs; finding IP routes; managing IP traffic with access lists; establishing point-to-point connections; as well as establishing Frame Relay connections.

CCNA examination can be registered in any one of the Pearson VUE office or even it can be registered in online from Pearson VUE website. The registration fee is 250$. The available languages of the exam are English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Korean, French, Portuguese. 640-802 exam duration is 90 minutes to attempt 45-55 questions.

Since 2007, Cisco has announced some changes in CCNA examinations as well as the certification. Cisco has launched 640-802 (CCNA exam), 640-822 (ICND1) and 640-816 (ICND2). Among these exams 640- 802 exam is a single exam option to achieve CCNA and passing in 640-822 and 640-816 examinations will be the other option to certify the CCNA certification.