9th Technical Seminar Year 2015 on Guide to CISCO Certification and Workshop

IECEP-KSA-CRC conducted its 9th Technical Seminar entitled Guide to Cisco Certification and Workshop on September 18, 2015 at Orchid Al Mansour Hotel,KingAbdulaziz Road,Riyadh,Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The Guide to Cisco Certification and Workshop provides comprehensive information in getting Cisco Certifications. In the world of technical certifications, Cisco Certifications is one of the known and acceptable certifications in the field of Networking and Information Technology.

This was the topic discussed by our Cisco Certified Network Professional Engr. Ryan Paul Panilo. On the first half of the technical seminar, he emphasized the benefits and reasons in taking Cisco Certifications such as better job opportunities, high salary, to stay employed, career changes, personal satisfaction, and to be expert in networking.

Engr. Panilo provides detailed information about the different certifications that Cisco is providing such as CCENT, CCNA, CCNP, CCIE, CCDE and Cisco Architect. He gives in depth knowledge about the coverage of each certification, type of exam to be expected and the prerequisite of each examination. The CCENT up to the CCNP examinations can be taken from Pearson Vue, the official accredited Cisco online testing platform. There are many test centers in the Kingdom.

He provides ideas to attendees about the different certifications path which can be specialize by anyone. It widely covers different path such as routing and switching, design, network security, service provider, service provider operations, storage networking, data center, voice and wireless. The persons who would like to pursue Cisco certifications should be able to assess his capabilities, the specialty, the dedication of study harder, the time allocation, resources and finally the financial capability to cover the study and examinations.

The second half of the technical seminar comprises of hand-on workshop activity. Engr. Panilo discussed the different types of Cisco Switches and Routers. He shares his knowledge and skills in operating Cisco equipment from booting up, basic configuration of the switches and basic troubleshooting.