Cisco Network Academy

A regional Cisco Network Academy, the third in Belarus, opened at the IBA Training Center. As a result, the IBA Training Center is authorized to train and certify IT specialists and teachers, as well as set up local Cisco academies.

Attendees at the Cisco Network Academy will be able to take a 280–hour course in CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate). Students will acquire skills in building and administering of internet networks, installing and configuring of Cisco switchboards and routers in multi–protocol networks with LANs and WANs, identifying and fixing of bugs, and increasing of network performance and security.

It is projected that in early 2009 the Cisco Network Academy at the IBA Training Center will launch training within the CCNP (Cisco Certified Networking Professional) program. Afterwards, students will be offered the following courses:

• CCSP — Cisco Certified Security Professional
• CCDP — Cisco Certified Design Professional
• CCVP — Cisco Certified Voice Professional

The Cisco Network Academy program is underway in 168 countries. To date, more than 2,000,000 students completed training at 11,000 academies across the globe.

Sun Microsystems Authorized Center

In April 2008, Sun Microsystems authorized the IBA Training Center to provide courses on Sun technologies and software products. Trainees receive a unique opportunity to undergo training on a variety of subjects in Java and Solaris. One more course became available after the authorization, namely OO–226 “Object–Oriented Analysis and Design Using UML”. The course is intended for designers and developers of object–oriented software using UML programming language. The training is conducted by instructors who have extensive practical and pedagogical experience, and are accredited by Sun Microsystems.

Graduates receive manuals produced by Sun Microsystems and Sun Microsystems certificates.

Prometric and Pearson VUE–Authorized Testing Center

In addition, a testing center authorized by Prometric and Pearson VUE, world leaders in technologies for computer testing of skills and knowledge, is functioning at the IBA Training Center. Therefore, the IBA Training Center provides a full cycle of education, from authorized training to testing and certification.