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Well, I would say that both CCIE R&S as well as CCIE Security are quite a better option for a bright future. Both the courses are considered to be in great demand in the IT Industry, but again I wouldn’t say that any of them is easy to achieve.
Easy or not, would depend on the candidate’s knowledge and skills, which they are already having. So, let’s first have an overview of both the courses, in order to understand which one would be better for which candidates.
CCIE Routing and Switching Overview:
CCIE Routing & Switching certification is considered to be an expert level CISCO certification in Routing and Switching technologies. This certification was designed for engineering professionals and they deal in a solution of networks by Cisco system in order to aid the networking industry. CCIE Networking concepts are covered for about two hours written exam, after which that the candidates are required to pass an eight-hour lab exam. The expert level certified network engineers are going to require the skill and knowledge that could plan, implement, verify as well as operate network infrastructure.
After the completion of the CCIE R&S, you could choose a career in networking for a job like:
• IT Manager
• Network Administrator
• Network Engineer
• Network Specialist
• Sr. Network Engineer
CCIE Security Overview:
CCIE Security certification is considered as the highest level certification in the field of network security by CISCO system. The CCIE Security certification would be preparing the engineers in order to engineer, architect and troubleshoots Cisco security technologies and would be able to handle Cisco IPS, Iron Port, as well as Cisco Routing and Switches, etc. CCIE candidate is required to clear the lab exam and secure network within eight hours.
After the completion of the CCIE Security, you could choose a career in networking for a job like:
• Network Engineer
• Sr. Network Engineer
• Network Security Engineer
• Network Security Administrator
• Network Security Specialist
Well, before we further discuss both of them more, I would say that, whichever course you select, if you wish to have a good training center the SPOTO would consider to be the best.
Career Scope:
CCIE Routing & Switching is considered to be the most famous CCIE track and there are believed to be only around 35,000 CCIE R&S Certified Engineers in the entire world whereas right now the world needs about 3,00,000 CCIE Routing & Switching Engineers right now.
Whereas on the other hand, CCIE Security, is the most reputed as well as highest paid IT Certification ever. If you are a CCIE Security Certified Engineer, then you are going to find yourself amongst the 6,000 Network Security who have cut above the rest.
You would feel amazed to know that there would be there are only 6,000 CCIE Security certified Engineers available online worldwide, whereas industry requires about 2,00,000 CCIE level Security Engineers right now.
Salary Package:
If you are certified with the CCIE R&S Certified engineer, you could easily start your career at around $5749 USD and it would reach up to about the $43120 USD within 10 years. Wherein if you are certified with the CCIE Security, you could easily start up your career with about $7186 USD to $8624 USD Dollars, which could lead you to the salary hike of about $51744 USD.
So, basically, now you are required to gain the knowledge and also, that the candidates couldn’t just rely on the self-study. You are also required to gain some good training courses, which you could obtain by joining the SPOTO institute.
