Fast Track to Brocade Certification for Cisco CCNA, CCNP, and CCIE Professionals

If you are a Cisco CCNA, CCNP, or CCIE, you now have a faster way to add another prestigious certification to your portfolio—the Brocade Certified Network Engineer (BCNE). With just eight training hours and a successful exam, you can achieve this highly rewarding certification.

Brocade recognizes that professionals who've acquired CCNA, CCNP, or CCIE credentials are highly proficient in routing and switching protocols. By taking advantage of the new Brocade CNE 250 fast-track course to BCNE certification, you can advance straight to the specific knowledge and credentials to sell, administer, maintain, and troubleshoot networks containing Brocade products.

Beginning August 30, 2010, Brocade fast-track learning can reduce your BCNE time investment by two-thirds, and completely eliminate the exam cost. No travel is required—the live, instructor-led CNE 250 Preparing Cisco Professionals for the Brocade BCNE Exam course is delivered straight to your home or office desktop via Brocade Gold Standard Virtual Classroom Training (VCT).

BCNE certification provides the knowledge and skills to install and maintain IP switching and routing (Layer 2/3) networks containing Brocade products. The CNE 250 course will:

• Provide an overview of Brocade products
• Compare the Brocade and Cisco Command Line Interfaces (CLIs)
• Review BCNE exam highlights, including Layer 1 hardware components; Layer 2/3 switching and routing concepts and protocols; ACL, QoS, and wireless concepts; network security, management, and monitoring topics; and troubleshooting
• Include simulated labs similar to those covered in the BCNE exam
• Review relevant topics covered in the ETH 103 Basic Switch/Router Configuration and Management and CNE 200 courses

To help ensure a successful exam, you'll also receive:

• Time to ask questions and discuss topics with your instructor and peers during VCT presentations
• PDF copies of presentation materials
• Unlimited access to simulated labs
• BCNE Nutshell guide
• Test preparation suggestions

By helping you transform your career in less time and at lower cost, Brocade keeps you on the fast track to success. This approach aligns with the Brocade One™ Unified Network Strategy, which is designed to help organizations simplify their operations and increase business agility by evolving their IT infrastructures to a highly virtualized, services-on-demand state. Training and certification programs from Brocade will also evolve, helping you stay ahead of the technology curve.

Registration for the CNE 250 course is just $99, and for a limited time you will receive a FREE Certification Promo Code when you successfully complete the CNE 250 VCT or WBT course! Click here for details.