Cisco Scores 500,000 Certification Mark
4/22/2003 -- Cisco Systems announced yesterday that the company awarded its 500,0000th certification in March.
The only other companies known to have reached the half-million mark in their IT certification programs are Microsoft and Novell.
Cisco declined to provide a breakdown of the count by titles, but did say that the Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) community has grown to 9,500.
"The continuing growth and adoption of Cisco Career Certifications, particularly in security and IP telephony, is evidence of Cisco's preeminence in the networking industry and increasing confidence in the competence of certified professionals," Tom Kelly, vice president of Cisco's Internet Learning Solutions Group, said in a printed statement announcing the milestone. "For employers and network professionals alike, Cisco certifications are badges of expertise, aptitude and hands-on capability that is unparalleled in the industry."
Cisco launched the CCIE title in 1993, with the full program (associate, professional, and expert levels) debuting in 1998. Since then, the program has grown into seven Career certifications (plus several CCIE tracks) and 13 Certified Specialist titles. Aside from the lab-based CCIE, some of Cisco's most well known certifications include the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), the Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) and the Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP).
Last year, CertCities.com's readers voted Cisco's certification program as the best IT certification program. Its CCIE title also topped CertCities.com's list of the 10 Hottest Certifications for 2003.
More information on Cisco's certifications can be found here.  -B.N.
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| 6/2/03: Anonymous says: |
Geez, who are you talking to? the wall? your monitor? if you really have complaints regarding what cisco is doing, write to them and see if they will change their program to follow your advice such as make all their certs programs to be like cissp so that lesser people can pass which will make lesser people willing to pay for the exams, which will reduce their profit from certs programs? if you think they will, give it a shot, write to cisco, who knows if the next day they make ccna require 2 years of valid job experience...mwuahuahuahoauhoauhauohaouha.... |
| 6/3/03: Patrick from Arizona says: |
2 helpdesk 2 years pc tech then currently Network Specialist 3yrs. Certified MCSE and CCNA then finished CIS Assoc Degree. Also have an Assoc Degree in accounting before I switched fields....No sims just transc and realworld experience. Is this path worthy enough for those who are on their soapbox? |
| 6/3/03: Anonymous says: |
Man, I'm in the same situation as you are but with less experience and I'm tired asking such question here because what they'll say would be "...but still you were not net admin, helpdesk is no admin, so MCSE and CCNA aren't worth your experience...and no degree means nothing...you are paper, you aren't worth in IT, you are no better than me..." Well, those old farts will never appreciate what we, IT beginners, have...for them it's never enough until we can pass what they have... |
| 6/4/03: Patrick from Arizona says: |
I am perfectly happy with where I am at. In this company that I work for, there are not Net Admins. Just a lowly network specialist that watch over hundreds of locations. CIS AA degree with two certs. I am proud of my accomplishments and do not care about opinions of people I do not even know. I was employed and doing really well. But it took some sacrifices to attain this accomplishments. I am willing to stack my AA and 2 certs with 7 years of experience against any network engineer high on their soapbox. |
| 6/6/03: piet pompies from In die gat genaai! says: |
As one who has certified MCSE NT4 and W2K and CNA and plenty COMPTIA certs I can tell you that certs on their own aint worth diddly. Quite the opposite in fact. There's a sliding scale of certs and experience. Too many certs and no experience is a warning bell to employers. Uh oh.. boot camp dude! Anyway, like another guy said unless you impress in the tech interview you are a non-starter. I know a 20 year old guy who got an MCSE in 3.5 and now leads international project teams on Exchange rollouts. Even with three years tech support experience my list of certs is now more of a negative than a positive. I haven't done half the stuff covered in the MCSE track for real on the job, yet I have passed Directory Services Design and MS Security exams and suchlike. How did I pass? By doing Transcender and so on. Was it worth it? Hell no. Way too much money and too many people doing it. Well I aint in IT anymore so you work it out! The 90's idea of IT as a great career move is dead in the water and I personally know at least ten former contractors - programmers included - who are out of work in London, supposedly the heart of the international financial community. Still, I am doing a CCNA and am going to keep trying. |
| 6/7/03: Anonymous says: |
Getting experience most probably means getting a job and when it's still hard to find a job even with certs, how about having no certs? It's still better to have a little than nothing at all. Would you want to have $1 in your pocket or nothing? Maybe $1 wouldn't help much but having nothing is of course not a better choice... |
| 9/22/03: Anonymous says: |
The CCNA test is too difficult, especially for entry-level people. I've taken it 3 times now in the past 2 months. Scored in the 800-812 range each time. The first time, I spent my time on the sims, and got them all right, but didn't finish the test. The second time, I studied for the non-sims, and only spent 5 minutes on the sims, but got one sim wrong (half-right). I'm not against the sims, but they don't give you enough time on the test. It's a stress-based test, designed to break you down. Most of the questions are trivia, and minutia, that you really don't need to know (who cares if you can load-balance 4 or 6 circuits at the same time? what difference does it matter if the hold-down timer for igrp is 90 seconds? why teach old outdated commands like IPX? My god, if you're using IPX, you shouldn't be working in as an administrator anyway (IPX died five years ago). If Cisco would concentrate there test's on critical knowledge, instead of trivial pursuit, and they could learn to write a non-confusing textbooks (Cisco press is worthless, and deliberately confusing), then the networking world would be a much better place. In my opinion, a Cisco cert doesn't get you that much salary anyway, making an extra $10K, it's better to get people to learn something, than to waste their time and money with a bunch of trivial pursuit games. |
| 9/23/03: Becky Nagel from Editor, Certcities.com says: |
Hi Anonymous (9.22): Have you thought about taking the two-exam option for the CCNA? With it broken down, you might better be able to pin-point what you're missing, and would probably get at least one under your belt. Just an idea. |
| 3/26/04: Mac Gyver from Jakarta Indonesia says: |
Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan ... !!! To say something bad about someonesomething ...... if it is true it's called ghibah, If it's not true it's called Fitnah. PROVE IT if you have one ... Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan have something in common .... Everytime the cisco partner specialization certification program start/expire , the test centre in indonesia is fully booked. I WISH .. there will be a Cisco LAB CCIE Exam in Indonesia ... |
| 5/27/04: CCNA and Proud from San Antonio TX says: |
I could not afford to buy the equipment to test with and I did not have the time (I was running a network with well over 10,000 users), but I made it happen. I went out and purchased my lab and all of my books making approximately $35k a year. The CCNA cert is not for some kid in high school that "wants to get a jump" in the Nerd world. In this field you will always be "learning" and anyone who states otherwise is full of it. I like having competition, so if some kid does go out and memorize the crams then gets his or her CCNA I am grateful. That just means that when he or she cannot do the job, I can step in and make a profit. I am one of those very high 5 figure CCNAs and it is not because of the cert or school, it is because I am a hard charger. I am not any more intelligent than the next person; I just use my talents to there full extent. Right now I am working with a "Paper Cert" CCNP, and it is great!!!!! I actually benefit from his lack of knowledge and expertise. So in closing go out, spend you money on the CCNA cert, and we can compete on a level playing field. |
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