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 Hello and welcome to this introductory
 video where I'm going to be going

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 over an overview of this entire series
 of videos which is geared towards

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 the Cisco certified technician specializing
 in routing and switching.

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 My name is Keith Bogart and I will
 be your instructor for this series

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 of videos. You can see my credentials
 there and if you need to reach out

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 to me with any questions or comments
 you might have, you have my contact

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 information. So let's talk a little bit
 about the overview of this course.

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 What is the CCT and what are we going
 to be covering in this series of

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 videos? So as I mentioned, the CCT stands
 for the Cisco certified technician.

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 It is designed to support field technicians
 who are supporting Cisco devices.

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 In other words, if you get the CCT
 certification, it lends credibility

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 to the fact that you can go out and get
 a job as a field technician swapping

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 out Cisco hardware, working closely
 hand in hand with Cisco's technical

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 assistant center, diagnosing and troubleshooting
 problems on Cisco hardware.

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 So the stated objective of the CCT is
 really to diagnose Cisco equipment

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 failures and restore or swap that equipment
 for replacement equipment.

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 Now once you've taken all the videos
 and you feel confident, you can go

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 out and pursue the 640-692 exam which
 will give you the CCT specialization.

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 Now let me talk just a little bit about
 this in more detail as far as

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 what topics are included on the test
 and that I'll be talking about here

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 in the next series of
 videos coming up.

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 So if you go to Google and from Google,
 you just type in Cisco CCT.

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 For me, the very first link takes
 me to where I want to go.

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 Here is about a six-minute video.

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 If you wish to watch, they'll give you
 a little bit more detail from Cisco's

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 perspective as far as why
 they created this exam.

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 And you can see scrolling down that
 there's actually two subcategories

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 of this. For field engineers that specialize
 in data center hardware and

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 swapping, you'd want to get the CCT
 data center exam or you can go for

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 the CCT routing and switching
 certification exam.

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 This series of videos that you're about
 to watch is specifically tailored

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 towards the routing
 and switching CCT.

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 So if you click on that, the next section
 comes up and gives you more

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 details, the specific exam that you
 can take to get your CCT and routing

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 and switching. And from here, if you
 click on CCT routing and switching

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 syllabus, it'll get you one step closer
 to where you can actually see

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 the blueprint of the
 certification.

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 From this page right here, up in the
 middle, you want to click on exam

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 topics. And this will take
 you to the blueprint.

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 Of the Cisco certified technician.


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 You can see here, that's broken down into
 four general categories, identifying

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 Cisco equipment and related hardware, describing
 Cisco iOS software operation,

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 general networking knowledge and
 service related knowledge.

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 And you can expand each one of these
 by clicking on show details and get

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 finer granularity on what is expected
 and what you might be tested on

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 within this exam.

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 So each of these subcategories will
 be covered in the series of videos

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 I'm going to be showing
 you coming up here.

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 So I hope you find this helpful.

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 I hope you find it a little
 bit entertaining.

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 And by the time you're done with this
 video series and creating flashcards

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 and getting ready, you should be able
 to confidently approach and pass

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 your Cisco certified technician exam in
 the field of routing and switching.