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Convergence Technologies Professional CTP Boot Camp Class Training
 The goal of this five-day accelerated boot camp class is to provide professionals with the basic data, voice, and converged networking skills
necessary to function in a variety of information technology positions including emerging broadband and "voice over" technologies. Telecommunications Industry Association's Convergence Technologies
Professional (CTP) certification is the premier certification that validates the skills required to excel in the role of data, voice, and converged support
professionals, channel partner sales professionals, technical representatives, advanced technical engineers, and application sales engineers.
The TIA Converged Technology Professional certification is an internationally recognized certification that validates data, telephony, and converged networking skills.
Reasons for CTP certification include career advancement, personal improvement, skills enhancement, and higher salaries.
- Certifications tend to lead to higher wages.
- Increased customer satisfaction and decreased support costs through improved
- Service, increased productivity and greater technical self-sufficiency.
- Excellent return on training and certification investments by providing a
- standard method of determining training needs and measuring results.
- Reliable benchmark for hiring, promoting and career planning.
- Recognition and rewards for productive employees by validating their expertise.
- The certification is an excellent stepping stone towards achieving future Cisco certifications such as CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, and CCVP.
CTP Certification Training Online and CD-ROM
The TIA Convergence Technology Professional CTP validates the knowledge and abilities of individuals with at least nine months of experience in network support or administration.
TIA CTP Exam
The exam tests three domain areas:
- Data Networking
- Telephony Networking
- Converged Technologies
The certification exam candidate is responsible for achieving a passing score on the exam. The exam items are based upon exam objectives. All deliveries of the exam will be subject to the following:
- Each delivery of the exam includes a random selection of 65 CTP exam items and six survey questions at the end of the exam.
- The examination period is 75 minutes.
- To achieve a passing score on the TT0-101 exam, candidates must correctly answer at least 49 of the 65 exam items.
- Exam items offer three to four solutions or options. Exam candidates must select the one best 5-day Training Camp Schedule
The Boot Camp has an aggressive educational schedule that thoroughly covers all essential elements necessary for certification.
Day 1 to Day 2 Data Networking
Day 2 to Day 3 Telephony Networking
Day 3 to Day 4 Converged Technologies
Day 5 Study, Testing Day
Daily Class Educational Schedule
Our daily schedule incorporates different modes of instruction and learning environments to ensure that students learn,
retain, comprehend, and can apply knowledge critical to a CTP certified IT professional.
8:15 am to 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 am to 1:00 pm Instruction
1:00 pm to 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm to 5:30 pm Instruction/Hands-on Labs
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm Dinner and Relaxation
7:30 pm to 8:00 pm Wrap Session
8:00 pm to 9:00 pm Practice Drills
solution for each item.
Through lecture, group discussion, and lab work, you will learn the following concepts and skills:
CTP DATA NETWORKING DOMAIN
Industry Standards and Protocols Objectives
- Identify the layers of the OSI reference model.
- Identify the functions of each layer of the OSI reference model.
- Identify the protocols and services of each OSI layer.
- Explain data encapsulation (including but not limited to: data, segment, packet, frame) in relation to frame assembly.
LAN/WAN Infrastructure Objectives
- Compare and contrast various LAN topologies (including but not limited to: ring, bus, star).
- Compare and contrast various WAN topologies (including but not limited to: full mesh, partial mesh, point-to-point).
- Identify the functions of routers, switches and hubs in relation to data networking hardware.
- Compare and contrast the functions of a modem and CSU/DSU in relation to data networking hardware.
- Recognize standards, protocols and their characteristics (including but not limited to: 802.2, 802.3, 802.5, PPP, frame relay, ATM, SONET/SDH).
- Identify the purpose of Spanning Tree Protocol (STP).
- Distinguish between DTE and DCE.
- Distinguish among the categories of cabling (including but not limited to: CAT3, CAT5, shielded twisted pair [STP], V.35, thinnet, RG58, fiber optic [single-mode, multi-mode]).
- Identify cable terminators.
- Identify the function of VLANs.
- Identify the function of a MAC address.
IP Protocols Objectives
- Compare and contrast the format of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
- Identify network classes (A, B, C, D).
- Identify network, host and broadcast addresses.
- Identify private network numbers.
- Identify the importance of subnet masking.
- Determine the number of host addresses in a subnet
- Determine the network number given a host address and subnet mask.
- Identify the subnet mask by both the bit count and dotted decimal notation.
- Distinguish between routed and routing protocols.
- Distinguish among dynamic, static and default routes.
- Identify DNS features and functions.
- Identify DHCP features and functions.
- Identify NAT features and functions.
- Compare and contrast connection-oriented and connectionless transport in relation to TCP/UDP.
- Describe well-known, registered and random/dynamic ports in relation to TCP/UDP. Identify
- Common ports (including but not limited to: Telnet, HTTP, FTP, TFTP, SMTP, POP3, SNMP, DNS) in relation to TCP/UDP.
Troubleshooting Objectives
- Use ICMP (tracert, ping and error messages) in relation to troubleshooting tools.
- Recognize other available troubleshooting tools for cabling, hardware, and configuration of devices (software and hardware).
- Determine when to use straight-through vs. crossover cable.
- Identify common configuration errors in IP devices.
TELEPHONY NETWORKING DOMAIN
Industry Standards and Protocols Objectives
- Recognize standard reference nomenclature (including but not limited to: X.nnn, Q.nnn, I.nnn, E.nnn).
Basic Telephony Concepts Objectives
- Identify the call-processing steps (call setup, call connection, call completion).
Compare and contrast analog trunks and station lines.
- Identify electrical characteristics of ground-start and loop-start analog trunks (not including local voltage specifications).
- Identify the various types of E&M trunks (2W/4W audio) in relation to analog trunks.
- Identify various DSH technologies (including but not limited to: DS0, DS1, DS3, OC3, OC12, OC48, OC192).
- Compare and contrast analog ringing (electrical specs) vs. digital alerting (A&B bits) in relation to signaling types.
- Identify the primary analog transmission impairments involved in a phone call (including but not limited to: loss, echo, noise, cross-talk, delay).
- Identify the need for echo cancellation in 2-wire to 4-wire hybrids.
- Define pulse code modulation in telephony.
- Compare and contrast A-Law and Mu-Law in relation to digitizing voice.
Identify the functions of class 4 (tandem) and class 5 (end-office) switches in relation to PSTN/GSTN.
- Identify various numbering plans (including but not limited to: global, NANP, private).
Recognize Digital Signal Hierarchy (DSH) terminology (STRATUM).
Distinguish between FXO and FXS interfaces.
Infrastructure Objectives
- Identify safety procedures (including but not limited to: cabling, power, grounding, ESD, NEBS).
- Determine proper cabling procedures in specific environments (PVC vs. plenum).
- Identify troubleshooting tools (including but not limited to: 4-pair tester, inductor/buzzer/toner, linesman test set (butt set), volt meter, laptop).
- Identify the symptoms of improper clocking configuration.
- Identify various cable terminations (including but not limited to: USOC/RJ-nn standards, ITU/V.nnn standards).
Signaling Objectives
- Compare and contrast the signaling of ground-start and loop-start analog trunks (not including line voltages).
- Compare and contrast in-band vs. out-of-band in relation to signaling types.
Identify the signaling functions of ISDN (e.g., ISDN BRI, ISDN PRI, ISDN 23 and ISDN 30) and SS7/C7.
- Compare and contrast E&M, ground start, loop start and OPX in relation to signaling types (A, B, C and D bits).
- Compare and contrast analog dialing (DTMF) vs. digital addressing (set-up messages) in relation to signaling types.
CONVERGENCE TECHNOLOGIES DOMAIN
Industry Standards and Protocols Objectives
- Identify the major industry standards (including but not limited to: 802.x, RFCxxxx, E.nnn, G.nnn, H.nnn, Q.nnn, X.nnn) that apply to the technologies relevant to convergence.
- Identify the major standards bodies (including but not limited to: IEEE, ITU, IETF, EIA, TIA, ANSI, Bell) that apply to the technologies relevant to convergence.
Voice-over Convergence Objectives
- Define latency, jitter and wander, and identify their impact on real-time communications.
- Identify the importance of a jitter buffer.
- Identify the impact of large data frames on real-time communications.
- Recognize the need for Quality of Service (QoS) in converged networks.
- Identify Quality of Service (QoS) technologies (including but not limited to: RSVP, DiffServ, IntServ, 802.1P/Q) for converged networks.
- Identify common codecs (G.7xx) and their bandwidth requirements in a converged environment.
- Describe the impact of compressing voice.
- Compare and contrast the use of T1, E1 and J1 for data and voice.
- Identify the factors that affect the bandwidth of packetized voice.
- Identify requirements for transporting modem and fax through a converged solution.
Topology Convergence Objectives
- Identify the types of signaling protocols for converged networks (including but not limited to: H.245, H.320, H.323, H.450, SIP, MGCP, NCS).
- Identify the function of a gatekeeper.
- Identify differences in call flows between convergent-based and circuit-based calls.
- Identify the function of gateways.
- Identify characteristics of circuit-switched and packet-switched technologies.
Our TIA CTP Class includes:
- Intensive Training by Certified Trainers utilizing our (Lecture | Lab | Review)™ Delivery.
- Blended-Learning Instruction comprised of comprehensive study materials and pre-class mentoring, official TIA courseware, comprehensive lab manuals, and CTP Practice Software.
- Five (5) Days of Deluxe Hotel Accommodation.
- 24-Hour Lab and Instructor Access.
- Examination Vouchers & On-site Certification Testing.
- Most Meals; Unlimited Beverages, Snacks and Freshly-brewed Coffee.
- Our Boot camp Training Center has dedicated, well-equipped educational facilities where you will attend instruction and labs and have access to comfortable study and lounging rooms.
- Our Trainers teach to accommodate every student's learning needs through individualized instruction, hands-on
labs, lab partner and group exercises, independent study, self-testing, question and answer drills, and friendly competitions between concurrently running classes.
- Students will have 24-hour access to quality personal workstations, audiovisual equipment, supplies, and lab equipment.
- Examination Passing Policy. Should a student complete a Training Camp Program without having successfully
passed all vendor examinations, the student may re-attend that program for a period of one year. Students will only be responsible for accommodation and vendor exam fees.
Students who are successful in the the certification preparation course should possess:
- 1 year of experience or equivalent knowledge in all three CTP knowledge domains: Data Networking, Telephony Networking, Convergence Technology.
- Students who are successful in accelerated training and certification ALL possess:
- The drive and motivation to succeed and advance their careers.
Class Schedule
6/23/2008 6/27/2008 San Francisco, CA
8/11/2008 8/15/2008 Chicago, IL
10/13/2008 10/17/2008 Pocono Mountains, PA
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