INTRODUCTION to certifications

  Cisco offers three levels of general IT certification namely associate, proffesional and expert(where CCIE represents the highest level of achievement). There are seven different tracks for you to choose so that you can match your certification path to your job role or industry. Apart from the general IT certs cisco also offers IT certs in Focused Areas through which network proffesionals can enhance their core networking knowledge by achieving specialist certification in technologies such as security,IP telephony, and wireless.

the seven tracks and their respective certs in the three levels are as per the table:

General Certifications
Certification Paths	Associate	Professional	Expert
Routing & Switching	CCNA	CCNP	CCIE Routing & Switching
Design	CCNA & CCDA	CCDP	CCDE
Network Security	CCNA Security	CCSP	CCIE Security
Service Provider	CCNA	CCIP	CCIE Service Provider
Storage Networking	CCNA	CCNP	CCIE Storage Networking
Voice	CCNA Voice	CCVP	CCIE Voice
Wireless	CCNA Wireless	Coming Soon!	CCIE Wireless