12/13/2006 -- Cisco Systems announced yesterday that it has updated two exams for its midlevel Cisco Certified Voice Professional certification.

The titles' Cisco IP Telephony exam has been updated to cover Cisco Unified CallManager 5.0 (exam 642-445). Candidates can now choose between it or the earlier exam, 642-444, which tackles CallManager 4.1.

Cisco also revamped the credential's Voice Gateways and Gatekeepers exam to a new version (642-453) that "features expanded labs, and updates to the lessons on IP to IP gateways and RSVP," the company said. The previous version of the exam, 642-452, will be retired in late April 2007.

Detailed information on all of these exams can be found using the links above.

Optional training courses for the new exams are available, as well.

The other three exams required to earn this title -- Quality of Service, Cisco Voice over IP and IP Telephony Troublehsooting -- were not updated. -Becky Nagel