last tuesday i passed the icnd1 exam, the first of two to complete the requirements for the cisco certified network associate certificate. yesterday i sat for — and passed — the icnd2 exam. shortly after midnight, i received the “congratulations on becoming cisco certified!” e-mail from cisco, meaning i am officially a ccna (i also hold mcp and gcwn certifications, along with a few from comptia).

next up will be the ccnp, i think. ccnp requires the successful completion of four exams:

• 642-901: building scalable cisco internetworks (bsci)
• 642-812: building cisco multilayer switched networks (bcmsn)
• 642-825: implementing secure converged wide area networks (iscw)
• 642-845: optimizing converged cisco networks (ont)

i’m currently debating which to concentrate on first…