Friday 4 December 2015

Introduction to CCNP Data Center Certification



IT data center professionals are facing hard time as they have to cope up with the challenges from business owners within their companies. Corporate initiatives for innovation, the proliferation of devices, business agility and increased energy efficiency are all demands that data center professionals are trying to solve. A company’s ability to solve these issues affects its bottom line and can take it ahead of the competitors. For solving these complex issues data center professionals are required who are not only trained on the latest products but also on industry best practices and who have a strong foundation in data center technologies.

Achieving CCNP Data Center Certification
CCNP Data center Certification offers job ready training and skills for Data center professionals. The certification prepares professionals for job roles like data center technical architect or engineer. In this certification candidates gain knowledge in designing, implementing and troubleshooting data centers in all their components. The certification equips you with skills in installing, configuring and maintaining data centers. On completion of CCNP datacenter Certification, you can move forward in your career by doing CCIE Data center certification.

Requirements
The CCNP data Center is a three year job role based professional level certification which is meant for technology architects, presales engineer, design engineers and implementation engineers. The exam and course cover advanced data center concepts within the areas of unified computing and unified fabric. The certification is ideal for data center professionals who want to save time and money on data center equipment design, maintainenece and installation. The CCNP Data center certification program enables you to maximize your investment in your education and increase the value of your data center network.

Prerequisite
The prerequisite for doing CCNP data center certification is CCNA data center certification. The CCNP Data center certification requires the exam and training as shown below. In addition to that you should have 3-5 years of experience before doing CCNP Data center certification.
 
Required  Exams
Training
642-997 (DCUFI)


642-999 (DCUCI)
Implementing Cisco Data center unified fabric (DCUFI)

Implementing Cisco Data center Unified computing
(DCUCI)
                                                                                
  And
642-996 (DCUFD)
642-998 (DCUCD)

Designing Cisco Data center Unified Fabric (DCUFD)
Designing Cisco Data center Unified Computing (DCUCD)

                                                                                   
    OR
642-980 (DCUFT)


642-035 (DCUCT)
Troubleshooting Cisco Data Center Unified Fabric (DCUFT)



Troubleshooting Cisco Data Center Unified Computing (DCUCT)

Note: All the candidates must take and pass both the implementing exam and then can choose either both of the design or both troubleshooting exams.