CCNA Career Scopes in India

CCNA is one of the most popular IT certification developed by Cisco Systems. CCNA course opens wide range of career opportunities in India. Becoming a CCNA certified professional is known as the first step of your rewarding networking career. It opens the career path to the following job roles:

• IT manager
• System administrator
• Network support engineer
• Network administrator
• Tech support representative
• Network engineer
• System engineer

Some basic Roles and responsibility of CCNA certified professionals:

• Responsible to manage and operate all network systems
• Responsible to install, configure and test all system software, applications and operating systems
• Security maintatinacnce for system networks and their backups
• Provide first and second line support
• Monitor network performance and implement solutions if any issue
• Provide basic level of administrator tasks on networks.
• Deal with customers and provide external support
• Technical support on LAN and WAN using routers, switches, security and firewalls.
• Remote access solution and support through VPN
• Troubleshoot network related issues.

A CCNA certified professional will get expertise in TCP/IP, IOS, LAN, WAN, Switching and Routing protocols, OSI model, troubleshooting LAN. This certification validates your skills to select, connect, configure the different networking devices with troubleshoot the issues.

Cisco offers CCNA certification in deferent tracks. You can choose one of your favorite track. These available tracks are:

• Routing and Switching
• Security
• Collaboration
• Data Center
• Service Provider

CCNA Certification Salary Scope in India

There is not fixed Salary for CCNA certified candidates. It depends on candidate’s skills, knowledge and certification and how they sell their certification in interview. Only having CCNA certification is not the guarantee for a good job, candidate should have good command over related topics, technical knowledge and hands-on experience. UniNets recommend students to get as much as technical knowledge, hands-on experience on topics instead of getting a average job after certification. In India an average candidate can get a job with salary of 1.5 lac/year with certification and this salary figure may vary with company and candidate.