For many companies today, improving business performance by increasing collaboration between employees, customers, and suppliers is the ultimate goal. Implementing and maintaining a technology solution around this goal can be daunting. Companies that do successfully implement a solution, however, not only increase collaboration between these groups but can also decrease costs.

Cisco is in a unique position to offer the products that solve these business collaboration challenges and the training and certifications for individuals who design, install, and maintain these solutions. Cisco Collaboration certification programs train and certify individuals using our industry-leading collaboration solutions and best practices as well as offering job-role-based curricula for all levels of your IT staff.

Collaboration and unified communications engineers in the marketplace today understand the solutions and the need for linking your business model to a collaboration approach. Cisco collaboration and unified communications engineers, in particular, have real-world design, implementation, and troubleshooting skills. Having an expertly trained IT staff that can implement and maintain a collaboration and unified communications solution that is easy to use and provides a seamless user experience is a competitive advantage for your organization in that it increases employee productivity and encourages innovation.

Job-Ready Practical Skills
Cisco Collaboration certification programs are practical, relevant, and job-ready certification curricula aligned closely with the specific tasks expected of today’s in-demand collaboration professionals. These programs include three certifications:

• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Collaboration
• Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Collaboration
• Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Collaboration

These certifications prepare you for work in small and medium-sized business (SMB) and enterprise collaboration environments. Job roles may include network video administrator or operator; network video engineer; voice, unified communications, collaboration, or communications engineer; and collaboration sales or systems engineer.

Individuals with these certifications will typically be collaboration or telecommunications professionals employed by a corporate, governmental, or channel partner employer. Additionally, people working in the traditional analog audiovisual industry will benefit from gaining skills to perform in collaboration environments.

Cisco Collaboration certification programs allow you to maximize your investment in your education and increase the value of your converged VoIP and video over IP network.

Best Practices in Collaboration and Unified Communications
The CCNA Collaboration, CCNP Collaboration, and CCIE Collaboration programs build and validate basic through advanced knowledge of the skills required to design, configure, and engineer collaboration solutions using the latest Cisco collaboration products and technologies. The curricula emphasize real-world best practices through labs and course materials using the features of Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express, Cisco Unity Connection, Cisco Jabber, Cisco WebEx, WebEx Social, and Cisco Contact Center Express.

CCNA Collaboration is a job-role-based career certification that enables voice, video, and network engineers to learn and demonstrate key skills and extend their careers into collaboration. This certification prepares you for work in an SMB collaboration environment and to support a senior collaboration engineer in an enterprise environment.

Job duties include basic video endpoint configuration, and provisioning and support of Cisco collaboration solutions

The CCNA Collaboration certification can also provide career opportunities for employees of business and channel partner organizations transitioning from other technical areas such as routing and switching.

The CCNA Collaboration certification is a three-year certification program intended to provide fundamental education and training for network professionals interested in collaboration network environments.

Prerequisite Skills and Requirements
There are no prerequisites for CCNA Collaboration certification. Completion of the CCNA Collaboration certification requires the exams and recommended training shown below.

CCNP Collaboration is a job-role-based career certification intended to distinguish Cisco collaboration and unified communications network engineers who design, deploy, configure, and troubleshoot Cisco collaboration and unified communications applications, devices, and networks. These individuals typically support voice, video, and messaging applications across their corporate networks. The CCNP Collaboration certification is a three-year certification program.

Prerequisite Skills and Requirements
A valid Cisco CCNA Collaboration or any Cisco CCIE certification can act as a prerequisite. Completion of the CCNP Collaboration certification requires the exams and recommended training shown below.

In addition to the CCNA Collaboration, and CCNP Collaboration, Cisco offers many certifications that designate individuals with skills in specific networking technology solutions. Get more information about these certifications here.      © 2015 Cisco

thinQtank® Learning is offering an industry unique seven‐day training camp in which students can receive the first half of the Cisco CCNP Collaboration certification. As with all of our Cisco Training Experiences – exams are delivered in the classroom.

When: July 5 – July 11, 2018
Where: Sterling, VA