Specialization and Certification

Certification Program Specialization Program

Becoming Select Certified Pearson VUE

Cisco Partner Certification Program

In the enhanced Channel Partner Program, your certification level directly reflects your technology-skills breadth across key technologies. This confirms your ability to deliver integrated networking solutions.

Select Certification Premier Certification

Silver Certification Gold Certification

Select Certification
Select Certification is an entry point into the Cisco Channel Partner Program for partners with a primary focus on small and midsize business (SMB) customers with fewer than 250 employees. This certification offers training, tools and incentives and indicates a partner's competence in selling and deploying Cisco SMB solutions.

The SMB segment has become the IT industry's fastest-growing market because more SMB customers are embracing technology to gain a competitive advantage. These customers rely heavily on their IT partners as trusted advisors and knowledgeable network professionals who can successfully design and deploy Cisco SMB solutions.
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SMB product guide 1,144K, PDF
SMB extended product guide 1,605K, PDF
10 reasons to join 642K, PDF
SMBU catalogue 186K, PDF

Premier Certification
The Premier Certification level is designed to recognize and reward your organization with credibility in the marketplace as well as provide sales and marketing information, tools and support. Achievement of this certification level requires completion of sales and technical training in addition to other base requirements. Premier Certified Partners have, at minimum, gained expertise in Express Foundation, which expands technical competency in the integration of routing and switching, wireless LANs and security.
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Silver Certification
Silver Certification is designed to recognize and reward your organization with credibility in the marketplace. Silver Certified Partners gain expertise in:

• Any two Advanced Specializations, or
• A combination of the Express Unified Communications Specialization and one Advanced Specialization (excluding Advanced Unified Communications Specialization), and
• Have achieved a measurable level of customer satisfaction

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Gold Certification
The Cisco Gold Certified Partner designation offers one of the highest credibility levels in the marketplace. Many governments and large corporations require Cisco Gold Certification as part of their requests for proposal (RFPs). Cisco Gold Certified Partners deliver a high level of support, have gained expertise in four Advanced Specializations--including integrated Cisco Lifecycle Services capabilities -- and have achieved a measurable level of customer satisfaction.
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Cisco Partner Specialization Program

The Cisco Partner Specialization Program allows your organization to develop and demonstrate its expertise in technology, solutions and services through structured training road maps and a knowledge-validation process. This expertise enables your company to differentiate itself from competitors and pursue new markets while migrating to higher-margin services-based and solutions-based business models. Cisco-specialized partners can be recognized for their proven technical knowledge and/or their ability to deliver services around the latest Cisco technology.

Available technology specializations:

• Data Center
• Express Foundation
• Routing and Switching
• Security
• Unified Communications/Unified Communications Express
• Wireless LAN

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Becoming Select Certified -- Step-by-step

Learn how to become a Cisco Select Certified Partner.
step-by-step guide 197K, PDF
step-by-step interactive 226K, PDF

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Pearson VUE

Pearson VUE will be the primary vendor for test delivery of Cisco individual certification and program specialization exams worldwide, effective August 1, 2007.

Pearson VUE was selected as Cisco's primary test delivery vendor because of their global reach, their ability to scale to demand and their willingness to make critical investments, enabling Cisco to properly meet its future requirements. Working with Pearson VUE advances Cisco test security by deploying advanced biometric technologies as well as facilitating rapid, worldwide exam localization and increased certification scalability and coverage.
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