Ciena Customer and Partner Certification Guidelines
Ciena provides certification in below two categories:
1. Optical Communication Certification (OC Certification)
2. Ciena Routing and Switching Certification (CRS Certification)
These certifications are further sub-categorized into different levels basis on expertise and prior certification. Details of the levels are as given below:
Entry Level | Associate | Professional | Consultant |
Pre-Assessment for OC | OC-A | OC-P | OC-C |
Pre-Assessment for CRS | CRS-A | CRS-P | CRS-C |
Optical Communications Certification Exam Path Guidelines as follows:
Course Level | Entry Level (Pre-Assessment for OC) | Associate Level Exam Requirements (OC-A) | Professional Level Exam Requirements (OC-P) | Consultant Level Exam Requirements (OC-C) |
Requirements | No-Prerequisite required.
| Pre-Assessment for OC with 90% or more grades OR Instructor-led (OC-A ILT) training OR OC-A WBT (e-learning) course
| OC-A Certified + Instructor-led (OC-P ILT) training
(OC-P Certification requires the candidate to be OC-A Certified)
| OC-A Certified + Instructor-led (OC-C ILT) training
(OC-C Certification requires the candidate to be OC-A Certified)
|
Ciena Routing and Switching Certification Exam Path Guidelines as follows:
Course Level | Entry Level (Pre-Assessment for CRS) | Associate Level Exam Requirements (CRS-A) | Professional Level Exam Requirements (CRS-P) | Consultant Level Exam Requirements (CRS-C) |
Requirements | No-Prerequisite required. | Pre-Assessment for CRS with 90% or more grades OR Instructor-led (CRS-A ILT) training OR CRS-A WBT (e-learning) course
| CRS-A Certified + Instructor-led (CRS-P ILT) training
(CRS-P Certification requires the candidate to be CRS-A Certified)
|
CRS-A Certified + Instructor-led (CRS-C ILT) training
(CRS- Certification requires the candidate to be CRS-A Certified) |
Ciena Customer and Partner Certification Guidelines:
- The candidate must take the exam within 30 days of attending ILT/WBT course classes.
- Candidates have two attempts to pass the certification exam
- Candidates must pass an exam with a score of 80% or higher
- If a candidate fails their first attempt at the exam, the candidate has 30 days to pass the second attempt at the exam
- If the candidate fails in both attempts of the exam, the candidate must re-purchase the exam again.
- Candidates may download their certificates once they pass an exam.
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