Welcome to the Colorado Mountain College Cisco Academy

This program is designed to produce a CISCO Certified Network Professional, CCNP. The CCNP is recognized in the Networking/Data Communications industry as a technical professional working with inter-networked systems that predominantly includes LAN and WAN routers and LAN switches. The 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 of more than 500 nodes, including but not limited to these protocols: IP, IGRP, IPX, Async Routing, AppleTalk, Extended Access Lists, IP RIP, Route Redistribution, Route Summarization, OSPF, VLSM, BGP, Serial, Frame Relay, ISDN, ISL, X.25, ATM, DDR, PSTN, PPP, VLANs, Ethernet, Access Lists, 802.10, FDDI, Transparent and Translational Bridging.

Coursework covers a complete range of basic through advanced networking concepts from pulling cable through such complex concepts of subnet masking rules and strategies.

The Cisco Certified Network Associate, or CCNA, is a similar program.

Methods of learning computer networking are varied, with interactive on-line lessons, texts, movies, and extensive hands-on applications. Upon successful completion, the program graduate is qualified to take the Cisco Certified Networking Professional (CCNP) examination. Colorado Mountain College is an authorized Vue testing center for CCNP, CWB, MCSE, Net+, A+, INET+, Comptia and more. Register at vue.com for details.