Cisco Routing and Switching

Certification Comparison Chart

LEARNING@CISCO
Certification
Name
CCENT

CCNA Routing
and Switching

CCNP Routing
and Switching

Years of Related
Experience
02

1-3

3-5

Job Role

Product / Technology
covered in the course

Entry-level
Network Engineers
Help Desks
Network
Administrators

Hardware:
Cisco Routers
Cisco Switches

Network
Specialists
Network
Administrators
Network Support
Engineers

Hardware:
Cisco Routers
Cisco Switches

Network Engineers
System Engineers
Network Support
Specialists
Network
Administrators
Network
Consultants
System Integrators

Hardware:
Cisco Routers
Cisco Switches

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Number of
Exams

Prerequisites

None

None

Valid CCNA
Routing and
Switching
Certification

Software:
Cisco IOS
IPv6
OSPF
VLANs
ACLs
WLAN, LAN and WAN

Software:
Cisco IOS
IPv6
IOS Licensing
OSPF
VLANs
ACLs
Etherchannel
EIGRP
SNM
Netflow
WLAN, LAN and WAN

Software:
Cisco IOS
eBGP
EIGRP (IPv6)
OSPF v3
QoS
Layer 2
IPv4
Layer 3
IPv6
RIP v2 and RIP ng
Advanced IP Addressing
and Routing

Cisco Routing and Switching

Certification Comparison Chart
LEARNING@CISCO
Certification
Name

Years of Related
Experience

Job Role

CCNP Routing
and Switching
Cont.

CCIE Routing
and Switching

Product / Technology
covered in the course

Number of
Exams

Prerequisites

WLAN, LAN and WAN

Configuration of secure
routing Solutions
DMVPN (Dynamic
Multipoint VPN)
Cisco StackWise
VSS (Virtual Switch
Services)
7+

Senior Network
Engineers

Hardware:
Cisco Routers
Cisco Switches

None

Software:
Cisco IOS
eBGP
EIGRP
OSPF
QoS
Layer 2
IPv4
Layer 3
IPv6
MPLS
Multicast
HSRP
VRRP
NTP
DHCP
Advanced IP Addressing
and Routing
WLAN, LAN and WAN
Configuration of secure
routing Solutions
Troubleshoot and
optimize network and
evaluate proposed
changes

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