All of you know that am a software engineer now !! But at high school , due to compulsion from my parents and teachers , i had to take Biology - since they thought i had a huge scope of getting into one of the medical colleges - which by the way is very much restricted only to the cream of the cream students !! But all the way through i had this deep fervour for Computers and Programming ! This made me to join Certified computer courses during my summer holidays every year in nearby institutions !! One year i did my PGDCA (Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applicatins) and the next , i did DIWT(Diploma in Web Technology) !! My next goal was to do the much talked about CCNA - Cisco Certified Network Administrator course which is one of the many Cisco certification offered now !! But then , things took a wild turn , and i missed out on Medicine by just a .5 cut-off mark and hence had to get into an Engineering college(Since besides Bio i had also taken Maths as another Major) and study my favourite Comuter science ! :) Even now , I would love to do CCNA when i get time , because this certification is so much acknowledged in my field and it would definitely give me an upper hand where ever i go !!! :) Cisco offers three levels of general IT certification namely Associate, Professional, and Expert in tracks such as Routing and Switching, Network Security, and Service Provider etc ., so that you can match your certification path to your job role or industry. Other than these generl courses , it also offers specialist courses such as security, IP telephony, and wireless , etc !!