4/7/2004 -- Cisco Systems recently announced that it has updated two of its Cisco Qualified Specialist titles: Cisco Wireless LAN Design Specialist and Cisco Wireless LAN Support Specialist.

Both titles cover the 802.11g international WLAN standard, WLAN toplogies for 802.11a/b/g WLAN networks, Cisco Wireless LAN Security Suite, and Cisco Structured Wireless-Aware Network (SWAN), the company said.

The new Design Specialist exam is 642-577. The previous exam, 9E0-576, will retire May 17. The new Support exam is 642-582. The exam it's replacing, 9E0-581, will also retire on the same date.

For more information on this update, go here. -Becky Nagel