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Cisco released their newest CCNA certification in February 2020, designed to prepare IT professionals for successful IT networking careers. The CCNA exam validates your skills in network fundamentals, network access, IP connectivity, IP services, security fundamentals, automation and programmability.

If you’ve already successfully passed the CompTIA Network+ exams and have 12 months or more of hands-on industry experience maintaining or configuring business networks using Cisco equipment, you’re ready to start preparing for your CCNA certification exam. Apply today and get CCNA certified!

The new CCNA exam now key includes new topics, such as automation and programmability. The exam covers a range of topics that help demonstrate competency in networking tasks including:

• Installing, operating and configuring basic IPv4 and IPv6 networks
• Configuring network components such as switches, routers, and wireless LAN controllers
• Troubleshooting network connectivity problems

Before taking the CCNA certification exam, you should feel confident in demonstrating your knowledge to a potential employer across these 3 core areas:

• Networking

  Demonstrate competency and understanding with key networking fundamentals, including host-to-host communication, the role of switches within LANs, IPv4 and IPv6 configuration, how to use Wireless LAN Controllers, and more.

• Security

  Demonstrate competency and understanding with common network security topics, including threat defense technologies, security configuration of the device management plane, Access Control Lists (ACLs), and more.

• Automation

  Demonstrate competency and understanding with the concepts of network programmability and Software-Defined Networking (SDN). Describe smart network management solutions such as Cisco DNA Center™, Software-Defined Access (SD-Access), and Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN).

How confident are you with network fundamentals? Take our IT knowledge quiz to validate your confidence going into the exam and/or applying for your next IT position.

Maybe you’ve started some DIY studying on your own, but you’re not feeling quite confident enough to pass the exam. Join CIAT students and IT community members for some extra one-on-one help from our certified instructors in our complimentary online workshops.

The technical skills validated through the Cisco CCNA certification exam will help prepare you for promising IT career opportunities such as:

• Network Support Specialist
• Network Administrator
• IT Systems Administrator

Successfully passing your CCNA IT certification exam is a critical step to advancing your IT career and is one of the most sought-after certifications for networking professionals. However, passing the certification exam is only one step of the equation. If you pass the exam, but have no demonstratable skills to back it up, you may have challenges getting past the interview stage with potential employers.

CIAT's Career Services team provides personalized career transition support to ensure you translate your technical training and industry certifications into viable career opportunities. Our full suite of career services support includes resume building, LinkedIn profile optimization, mock interview support, career coaching, and job placement support, and specialty workshops, to help ensure you’re positioned for success.

Typically, students enrolled in our Computer Information Systems Degree programs feel confident taking the CCNA exam after 10 weeks of technical training and exam preparation.

CCNA is an intermediate level certification that can serve as a launchpad for numerous IT certification and career pathways. The more certs you earn, the more skills you acquire, the more career opportunities will be available. Register today and start earning your CCNA certification (Cisco Certified Network Associate).

Here are four recommended IT certification pathways that include the CCNA certification:

• Cisco CCNA Certificate
• Certificate as Networking Technician
• Applied Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Systems — Cybersecurity Concentration
• Applied Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Systems — Cloud Concentration

Your CCNA exam voucher, retake costs, and exam prep software, are included in the cost of your tuition for all Certificate and Degree programs. CIAT provides unlimited attempts at passing the CCNA exam to ensure you start your exam calm and confident, without worrying about what will happen if you don’t pass.

You save hundreds of dollars in out-of-pocket expenses over a DIY studying approach.

CIAT’s National City campus includes secure and authorized testing center facilities, available to local San Diego students and alumni. For our online students, we work closely with you to help locate and facilitate an authorized testing center near you.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, CIAT has enabled students to take the CCNA exam remotely from the comfort of their own home through Amazon’s new “Test Anywhere” process. Don’t put your goals on hold or push off until normalcy returns.

Studying for the CCNA certification on your own is doable, but often leaves you without the required technical skills in your background, or the necessary resources to translate your exam score into an IT career.

Join over 2,000 students who have enrolled in CIAT accredited Certificate and Degree programs and are on their path to launching or advancing their IT careers. Our extensive, custom designed IT curriculum provides training for up to 14 industry certifications, including CCNA.

• No exam fees
• Unlimited exam attempts*
• Hands-on training through on-campus and virtual online classes
• Online test preparation workshops
• Test preparation software
• One-on-one support from certified instructors
• Accredited Certificate and Degree programs to beef up your resume
• Personalized career services support including resume building and job placement support

* Students are encouraged to take certification exams while actively enrolled in the degree program. Unlimited certification exam attempts expire 90 days after graduation. The following are single attempt exams and are not eligible for a retake voucher: CEH, CASP, CISSP, DevNet & CCNP. See certification exam policy for more details.

The minimum passing score required for the CCNA 200-301 exam is 825.

Before taking the Cisco DevNet certification exam, you should feel confident in demonstrating your knowledge to a potential employer across these 5 core areas:

• Understanding and Using APIs

  Demonstrate competency in how to construct a REST API, troubleshoot HTTP response codes, construct Python scripts, and compare common API styles (REST, RPC, synchronous, and asynchronous), and more.

• Infrastructure and Automation

  Demonstrate competency and understanding with common infrastructure topics, such as model driven programmability, controller-level to device-level management, automation tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and Cisco NSO), workflow automation by Ansible playbook, and more.

• Application Deployment and Security

  Demonstrate competency and understanding with the concepts of application deployment and security, including the benefits of edge computing, attributes of application deployment models (private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud, and edge), utilizing Docker images in a local developer environment, utilize Bash commands, and more.

• Cisco Platforms and Development

  Demonstrate competency with how to construct Python scripts using Cisco SDK, how to differentiate between Cisco network management platforms (Meraki, Cisco DNA Center, ACI, Cisco SD-WAN, and NSO), apply concepts of model driven programmability (YANG, RESTCONF, and NETCONF), and more.

• Network Fundamentals

  Describe the purpose and usage of MAC addresses, VLANs, common networking components such as switches, routers, firewalls, and load balancers, functions of management, data, control planes, and more.

• Software Development and Design

  Demonstrate ability to identify different data formats (XML, JSON, YAML), different software development methodologies (agile, lean, waterfall), the advantages of common design patterns (MVC and Observer), version control operations with Git, and more.

The new Cisco DevNet exam now key includes new topics, such as automation and programmability. The exam covers a range of topics that help demonstrate competency in networking tasks including:

• Installing, operating, and configuring basic IPv4 and IPv6 networks
• Configuring network components such as switches, routers, and wireless LAN controllers
• Troubleshooting network connectivity problems

Before taking the Cisco DevNet certification exam, you should feel confident in demonstrating your knowledge to a potential employer across these 3 core areas:

• Networking

  Demonstrate competency and understanding with key networking fundamentals, including host-to-host communication, the role of switches within LANs, IPv4 and IPv6 configuration, how to use Wireless LAN Controllers, and more.

• Security

  Demonstrate competency and understanding with common network security topics, including threat defense technologies, security configuration of the device management plane, Access Control Lists (ACLs), and more.

• Automation

  Demonstrate competency and understanding with the concepts of network programmability and Software-Defined Networking (SDN). Describe smart network management solutions such as Cisco DNA Center™, Software-Defined Access (SD-Access), and Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN).

The technical skills validated through the Cisco DevNet certification exam will help prepare you for promising IT career opportunities such as:

• IT Infrastructure Manager
• Network Administrator
• Application Developer

Successfully passing your Cisco DevNet IT certification exam is a critical step to advancing your IT career and is one of the most sought-after certifications for networking professionals and application development experts. However, passing the certification exam is only one step of the equation. If you pass the exam, but have no demonstratable skills to back it up, you may have challenges getting past the interview stage with potential employers.

CIAT's Career Services team provides personalized career transition support to ensure you translate your technical training and industry certifications into viable career opportunities. Our full suite of career services support includes resume building, LinkedIn profile optimization, mock interview support, career coaching, and job placement support, and specialty workshops, to help ensure you’re positioned for success.

Typically, students enrolled in our Computer Information Systems Degree programs feel confident taking the Cisco DevNet exam after 10 weeks of technical training and exam preparation.

Here are five recommended IT certification pathways that include the Cisco DevNet certification:

• Applied Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Systems — Cybersecurity Concentration
• Applied Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Systems — Cloud Concentration
• Applied Bachelor's Degree in Software Development — Web Development Track
• Applied Bachelor's Degree in Software Development — Data Analytics Track
• Applied Bachelor's Degree in Software Development — Mobile App Development Track

Your Cisco DevNet exam voucher and exam prep software are included in the cost of your tuition for all Certificate and Degree programs. You save hundreds of dollars in out-of-pocket expenses over a DIY studying approach.

CIAT’s National City campus includes secure and authorized testing center facilities, available to local San Diego students and alumni. For our online students, we work closely with you to help locate and facilitate an authorized testing center near you.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, CIAT has enabled students to take the Cisco DevNet certification exam remotely from the comfort of their own home through Cisco’s new online proctoring process. Don’t put your goals on hold or push off until normalcy returns.

Studying for the Cisco DevNet certification on your own is doable, but often leaves you without the required technical skills in your background, or the necessary resources to translate your exam score into an IT career.

Join over 2,000 students who have enrolled in CIAT accredited Certificate and Degree programs and are on their path to launching or advancing their IT careers. Our extensive, custom designed IT curriculum provides training for up to 14 industry certifications, including Cisco DevNet.

• No exam fees
• Unlimited exam attempts*
• Hands-on training through on-campus and virtual online classes
• Online test preparation workshops
• Test preparation software
• One-on-one support from certified instructors
• Accredited Certificate and Degree programs to beef up your resume
• Personalized career services support including resume building and job placement support

* Students are encouraged to take certification exams while actively enrolled in the degree program. Unlimited certification exam attempts expire 90 days after graduation. The following are single attempt exams and are not eligible for a retake voucher: CEH, CASP, CISSP, DevNet & CCNP. See certification exam policy for more details.

The minimum passing score required for the Cisco DEVASC 200-901 exam is 800-850 (out of 1,000).