A CCENT course is designed for trainees who are aspiring to become network professionals. Hoping to clear the CCENT certification exam. The CCENT certification exam assesses the student’s network skills and is the entry point for support jobs in small networks in a company’s branch office. The CCENT certification exam is a respected and trusted credential. in the IT industry especially in networking. It is conducted by CISCO which is a global giant selling and designing IT and networking equipment.
The CCENT certification exam or the ICDN1 exam is designed to assess the network professional skills at the level at which it will be used when he takes up a support job in a small network. It is a 90 minute exam consisting of 40-50 questions
It is held in various languages like French, English, Japanese, Chinese, and Portuguese etc.
A CCENT certified individual is generally able to tackle any problem in a local network and even take care of its security. The CCENT certification is the first rung in the ladder towards attaining a CCNA qualification for getting employment in bigger networks.
The CCENT course designed for this has many varieties. At one end is the military style boot camp course, at the other end is the ICDN1 v1.0 online course,
Besides these there are also other resources like an online library, 10 min videos and IPTV videos. There are also modules teaching Enabling RIP, Exploring Wireless Networking, , Understanding the TCP/IP internet layer,
Cisco Security device manager and internet connections with NAT and PAT
IPTV Videos are available with titles like determining IP routes and understanding address resolution protocols and ICMP. The students are encouraged to take CISCO-e-lab simulations like managing the switch operating system file, review of basic configuration and RIP, preparing of boot system commands, operation of Cisco IOS, managing the start up configuration file, managing the mac address tables, configuring an Ethernet interface, trouble shooting RIP address issues and configuring RIP.
Students would do well to download documents pertaining to IP addressing and subnetting for new users. ., IPV6 at a glance and introduction to wireless LANS.
CISCO learning partners also make available information like creating your own mental subnet calculator and essentials of routing..
The next point of discussion is the ICDN1 v1.0 course.. It is administered by CISCO learning partners and is taught by CISCO certified experts. It constitutes virtual classrooms, web instructions and and classroom teaching of 5 days each .In this course the student learns network function rules, functions of major networks and the open system interconnection reference model. Also taught are host to host packet delivery process, how to deal with increased traffic on Ethernet LAN and switched LAN solutions to the Ethernet. Expertise is gained on switching networks by routers and data transmission through networks using TCP\IP. The major devices of WAN’s, configuring PPP encapsulation, static and dynamic routing, PAT and RIP routing…RF wireless access method are also contents of instruction.
The CCENT course is designed that any body passing out of these courses becomes conversant with the topics of the CCENT certification exam.
After taking the CCENT course and graduating the trainee begins his life with the proverbial silver spoon with open access to any company as support personnel for its branch office network.
The CCENT course is taught in various countries through the CISCO learning partners. There is a link on the CISCO website labeled ‘global partner locator’ from which the student can access contact information of the various centers.
Wherever the CCENT course is taught it shines above others as it is a hallmark of quality.