Networking & Hardware
CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional)
CCNP is the next step up for networking professionals, and this course takes you there. Building on CCNA, you'll go deeper into advanced routing, switching, and troubleshooting enterprise-scale networks through serious hands-on practice. It's for those committed to a senior networking career.
- Duration
- 2.5 months
- Format
- Live 1-on-1
- Level
- Professional
- Certificate
- Osian NSDC
What this course is about
CCNP study is for network learners who are ready to reason about enterprise behaviour beyond a small LAN. In live 1-on-1 online classes, you work with advanced routing, OSPF design, BGP awareness, redistribution, route control, redundancy and network troubleshooting. The teacher connects configuration choices to topology, convergence and operational risk. These CCNP classes are appropriate for experienced IT support staff, network administrators and CCNA learners who want a demanding professional networking path.
Labs can include multi-area OSPF, route filtering, summarisation, first-hop redundancy concepts, IPv6, VLAN design, spanning-tree behaviour, EtherChannel, wireless architecture and infrastructure security. You learn to read a problem statement, form a hypothesis, test it with show commands and document the correction. Automation awareness, controller-based networking and APIs may be introduced as modern context, while the practical emphasis remains on diagnosing and designing enterprise networks rather than copying isolated commands.
CCNP is the advanced sibling to CCNA: it expects stronger networking fundamentals and explores larger, more complex enterprise scenarios. It is not the right starting point for someone still learning subnetting, VLANs or basic routing. Cisco certification tracks and exam blueprints can change, so consult Cisco's current official information before booking any exam. Training includes a completion certificate, resume support, mock interview practice and placement assistance through flexible one-to-one sessions.
What you’ll be able to do
- Design resilient enterprise routing and switching topologies
- Control route selection with filtering and redistribution
- Diagnose convergence, loop and reachability problems
- Apply IPv6, redundancy and segmentation concepts
- Interpret operational evidence from detailed network commands
- Present an enterprise lab design with defensible decisions
How the course flows
- 1Hardware EssentialsWeeks 1–2
Components, assembly and diagnosing faults.
- 2Networking BasicsWeeks 3–4
The OSI model, IP addressing and how data moves.
- 3Switching & RoutingWeeks 5–6
Configuring the devices that run a network.
- 4Security & ServicesWeeks 7–8
Firewalls, access control and core network services.
- 5Troubleshooting LabsWeeks 9–10
Fixing realistic network and hardware problems.
Tools you’ll use
- Cisco Packet Tracer
- Windows Server
- Wireshark
- Routers & Switches
- VMware
Who this course is for
- CCNA holders seeking professional-level practice
- Network administrators managing multi-site environments
- IT engineers preparing for advanced Cisco responsibilities
- Infrastructure professionals revising routing design concepts
- Experienced support technicians moving towards network engineering
Roles this opens up
- Network Engineer
Design, implement and troubleshoot routing and switching services across enterprise environments.
- Enterprise Network Support Specialist
Investigate complex incidents involving route control, redundancy, segmentation and performance.
- Network Operations Engineer
Monitor infrastructure changes, document faults and support stable multi-site connectivity.
Before you enrol
You should be comfortable with IP addressing, VLANs, basic routing, device access and common troubleshooting commands. If those foundations are weak, the teacher may recommend strengthening CCNA topics before entering the advanced labs.
The learning path can combine advanced routing with enterprise switching topics such as spanning tree, EtherChannel and segmentation. The balance is adjusted to the professional track and practical goals you bring to class.
Many scenarios can be modelled with suitable network simulation or virtual lab tools, subject to their feature support. Hardware access is useful but not the only route to practising topology reasoning and verification.
BGP concepts and their enterprise relevance can be introduced, while the exact depth depends on the selected CCNP focus and your starting level. The teacher will separate conceptual understanding from production changes that require supervised expertise.
CCNA revision is sensible when fundamentals need strengthening, but CCNP adds larger topologies, route policy, resilience and more complex fault isolation. Choose CCNP when you can already configure and explain the core building blocks.
It supports study through practical labs and concept review, but Cisco's current exam blueprint and registration process must be checked on the official site. The academy does not represent the training as an included Cisco certification.