Cisco推出比CCIE级别更高的CCA认证费用15000美元约10万人民币

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多年以来，CCIE(Cisco认证互联网专家)认证一直是网络职业人士梦寐以求的最高级别认证，目前全球获得该认证殊荣的人也很少。不过，现在这种情况出现了变化。Cisco在周一又发布了一种比CCIE级别更高的新认证--Cisco认证架构师(CCA)。Cisco试图通过CCA认证将CCIE的网络工程技能与MBA的商业才干结合起来。
在Cisco的CCA认证中，CCA将训练报考者与首席商务运营主管们一起工作，以将商业需求转换成有效的IT系统。 Cisco发言人Fred Wieller表示：“我们的研究显示，如果一家公司购买了错误的技术和服务，那么他们可能会浪费1000亿美元。”产生这种浪费的原因是主管人员对商业需求有着深刻的认识，但是对IT架构缺乏认识，或者是对IT架构有着深刻的认识，但是对商业需求缺乏认识。CCA将训练CCIE如何沟通以上两个群体。
Cisco新公布的CCA认证不仅花费昂贵，而且也极不容易通过。CCA认证需要花费15000美元。报考者不仅必须拥有一个CCIE或CCDE(Cisco认证设计专家)认证，并且需要有至少10年的相关行业的工作经验。报考者必须提出申请，然而再经过Cisco的严格筛选才能参加培训。一旦被允许参加培训课程，报考者必须为一系列商业需求提出一个架构解决方案。届时，考试委员会将会对培训者进行质询，培训者则需要对方案进行答辩，并进行修改。考试委员会由全球知名工程师和其它领域内的相关专家组成，成员不仅仅来自Cisco。
对此，Wieller表示：“这一认证将鼓励企业将网络架构视为工作职能而不是工作的一部分。”一旦被允许参加培训课程，认证程序可在数周内完成。
目前行业分析人士对于这种新认证十分赞成。市场研究机构Yankee Group的高级副总裁Zeus Kerravala表示：“CCIE目前已经是网络工程师的最高级别认证。然而新推出的CCA认证在级别上将超过CCIE认证，这意味着一名拥有CCIE认证的网络工程师将具有MBA的商业才干。许多公司都会经常购买一些技术，然后再盘算如何利用这些技术。这种现象十分普遍。以商业标准看待这些技术目前是一种十分抢手的技能。”
Kerravala相信，CCA认证很快将与CCIE认证一样具有价值。由于许多系统整合公司如今必须出示其雇员中获得CCIE认证的比例，因此Kerravala相信系统整合公司将会率先派遣他们的雇员参加CCA认证。此外，Kerravala还认为大型跨国公司的网络工程师将也会热衷于这种新的认证。他认为未来这种认证甚至可能会代替某些商业研究生学位，今后一些合作复杂网络的公司将能会专门寻求这种人才。
Cisco表示，未来CCA认证将会成为一种精英认证，每年通过这种认证的人数也将会非常少。Cisco项目经理Sanjay Mehta称，通过CCA认证的人数在头两年可能仅有两位数水平。Cisco在今年秋季将开始接受CCA认证的申请，在明年一月份首批参加培训人员将对他们的架构解决方案进行答辩。
With a new top-level network certification, Cisco could open a network engineer's career path straight into the executive boardroom.

At Cisco Live in San Francisco this week, Cisco Systems unveiled its Cisco Certified Architect program, a new pinnacle certification that sits atop Cisco's most elite career certifications, the Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE) and Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE).
The Cisco Certified Architect (CCA) certification is about translating business requirements into technical specifications, according to Sanjay Mehta, product manager for Learning@Cisco. CCA candidates must go beyond demonstrating expertise with network architecture and show that they can communicate with C-level executives to understand business objectives and translate them into technological blueprints.
"An architect must be able to communicate and advocate proposed architecture," Mehta said. "They must have strong verbal communications and presentation skills. They must be able to demonstrate strong business knowledge, especially in finance and risk management. They must be able to operate on the fly, because they're coming across different market adjacencies that need to be linked and incorporated into an enterprise architecture."
Based on recent market research, Cisco estimates that companies will spend more than $100 billion buying the wrong networking technologies and services over the next five years, Mehta said, because of an emerging skills gap in the networking profession. The day-to-day operations of switching and routing are still critical functions in the networking profession, but Mehta said enterprises will increasingly need network architects who can look at "the big picture" and who can work with teams of engineers to make sure that different components of the network come together to serve business requirements.
Zeus Kerravala, group vice president for the Yankee Group, said the CCA certification will produce network architects who can help enterprises bridge the divide between IT and the rest of the business, which should help cut down Cisco's estimates for wasted spending.
"Historically, [Cisco's] certifications have revolved around technical understanding and technical prowess," Kerravala said. "With [CCA], that's only half the challenge. The other half of the certification is to be able to articulate the technology in business terms. I do think that helps the traditional engineer bridge that gap between IT and the business world much more easily."
But Kerravala said the CCA will also open up new career opportunities for network engineers.

"It's interesting," he said. "When you think of most corporate leaders, they usually come out of all areas of their senior leadership but IT. You'll often hear a CFO turned CEO or a COO turned CEO, but you never really hear that a CIO turned CEO. [CCA] should help create a career path for those people on the technology track who want to move more into a line-of-business world."
Mehta said Cisco expects fewer than 100 people to attain CCA status within the first few years of the program's existence, making it an elite program that could redefine a network engineer's career.
Heavy requirements set the CCA bar high
Candidates for the CCA program must have about 10 years of networking experience and must have attained CCDE certification. To be considered for the certification, a candidate must also submit a resume and a summary of a project in which he was a lead network architect or part of an architecture team that built a global, large-scale network. A panel of three judges, subject matter experts from both inside and outside Cisco, will review the candidate's application and conduct a phone interview with him to determine whether he has the experience to try for the certification.
If the judges decide that an applicant has the right experience, they will issue "an architectural challenge" to the candidate, Mehta said.
"It is … something like an RFP [request for proposals] process," he said, "where the individual would receive an assignment and have to come back with the technical specifications based on the challenge."
The candidate will essentially draft high-level architectural diagrams that specifically address the business requirements laid out in the challenge. Mehta said the candidates must demonstrate their technical expertise as well as their understanding of business requirements. The candidates will then have to present their written proposals to the panel of judges, much as a Ph.D. candidate would defend a doctoral dissertation.
"What [Cisco is] trying to do is replicate real-life environments," Kerravala said. "An almost Ph.D. dissertation defense is an interesting approach. That's the kind of thing [networking professionals] are going to have to prepare for if they want to bridge the gap between IT and the business world."
The panel of judges will start evaluating candidates in January. At $15,000, the CCA certification is far more expensive than the CCIE and CCDE certifications, which cost about $1,725. Some networking professionals may wonder whether the new certification is worth the hefty price tag.
"Considering that the CCIE itself normally carried with it a six-figure salary, this is almost guaranteed to be more than that," Kerravala said. "Considering that those who pass will be among the top 1% in their field, it's well worth $15,000 to be able to prove that."

De Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) is niet langer meer baas boven baas in het door de netwerkreus gedomineerde datacentrum. Het bedrijf brengt een nieuw topcertificaat uit voor netwerktechnici.

Het idee achter de nieuwe Cisco Certified Architect (CCA) is dat deze zijn uitgebreide technische kennis kan vertalen naar managementtaal. Je kunt dan als hoofdbeheerder van een groot datacentrum een sleutelrol spelen tijdens zowel de beslissing als de implementatie van ict-systemen.
Kandidaten kunnen met het papiertje in de hand concreet technische voorstellen doen op basis van sets van zakelijke eisen. Dat is ook waarop kandidaten worden geëxamineerd; aan de hand van lijstjes moeten de deelnemers een architectuur ontwerpen die aan al die eisen voldoet. Deze moeten ze vervolgens verdedigen voor een speciale commissie van vergevorderde netwerkspecialisten, zowel van Cisco als van andere partijen.
TopzwaarEenvoudig wordt het niet om een CCA te bemachtigen. Alleen deelname al kost rond de 15.000 dollar, en om mee te mogen doen is het op zak hebben van de CCIE of CCDE (Cisco Certified Design Expert) een vereiste. Je moet tenminste 10 jaar ervaring in het vak hebben, en zelfs met dat alles moet je door een goedkeuringscommissie. Het programma duurt enkele weken, voordat je het voorstel mag verdedigen.
Vanaf de herfst accepteert Cisco aanmeldingen, en begin volgend jaar moeten de eerste CCA's geslaagd zijn. Nederlandse opleiders konden tegenover Techworld nog niet bevestigen of en wanneer zij opleidingen gaan verzorgen die moeten leiden tot een CCA.

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