Cisco Dial Plan Best Practices Online Training

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UPDATED: June 2, 2022

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This Cisco Dial Plan Best Practices training prepares network administrators to optimize your organization’s use of the Cisco Dial Plan within the Cisco Unified Communications Manager system (UCM). This course covers best practices for efficient dial plan configuration and management, helping to streamline communication and enhance call routing across your network.

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What you'll learn

Configuring route patterns so you can dial outside of your organization
Planning ahead with a great plan hierarchy
Grouping your endpoints before you design and implement plans
Preparing for failover and redundancy within the system

FAQs

What will you learn in this Cisco collaboration technology management training?

This course teaches you to optimize your CUCM deployment with dial plans that make the most of Cisco's collaboration technologies while making your network as efficient as possible. This course explains route patterns, walks you through dial plan hierarchies, helps you group endpoints and identify redundant paths and failovers in your system.

Who should take this CUCM Cisco call administration course?

Anyone who manages a Cisco collaboration network or has to interact with the Cisco Unified Call Manager (CUCM) on a regular basis should take this course. Ideally, a collaboration administration would take this course before they assume independent responsibilities for a network, so that they can apply the best practices to configuring and optimizing the network.

Is this training in Cisco call plan best practices associated with any certifications?

No, this course isn't meant to be standalone certification prep. This relatively short video series focuses on best practices for configuring and maintaining dial plans for your network. That's a helpful skill when earning Cisco collaboration certs, and this course is great as part of a larger learning plan for a Cisco certification.

What certification should you consider after taking this course in best practices in managing Cisco dial plans?

If you're comfortable with the material on this course, you'd probably be in a good position to try for the CCT Collaboration, a Cisco certification designed for collaboration administrators or reps who are very new to the career field. The CCNP Collaboration is a more intensive and more challenging cert to consider as well.

Why should you take this Cisco CUCM administration training?

Managing dial plans for your Cisco collaboration network is a challenging and specific skill set, but mastering it is as easy as taking this course. If you're considering collaboration administration, learn industry best practices around CUCM early and apply them throughout your career: you'll always be the best trained and most prepared admin on your teams.

Who is this for?

This Cisco Dial Plan Best Practices training is considered administrator-level Cisco training, which means it was designed for network administrators. This networking skills course is designed for network administrators with three to five years of experience with Cisco best practices.

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Study plan

Download the free Cisco Dial Plan study plan to complete this course in about 14 hours.

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