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Certificate in Network Planning


About Network Planning

The Certificate in Network Planning exam evaluates candidates' proficiency in designing, strategizing, and planning computer networks. This exam assesses participants' understanding of network planning principles, methodologies, tools, requirements gathering, and feasibility analysis.


Why is Network Planning important?

Since the demands of the network are taken into account, networks that are part of a defined plan generally operate better than those that are merely put together. Effective network architecture will be more stable and enable overall greater performance.


Who should take the Network Planning Exam?

  • Project manager
  • Network planner
  • Network engineer
  • Program manager
  • IT manager
  • System engineer


Network Planning Certification Course Outline

  • Network Planning
  • Define network planning
  • Describe the NSP network planning functionalities
  • Explain the importance of capacity planning
  • Demonstrate how to configure, execute and analyze NSP analytics reports for capacity planning
  • Port Throughput Summary report
  • Interface Utilization Summary report
  • Temperature, CPU, Memory Utilization Summary report
  • Explain the importance of inventory management
  • Demonstrate how to configure, execute and analyze NSP analytics reports for inventory management
  • Card Inventory report
  • Port Inventory report
  • Explain the importance of equipment health monitoring
  • Demonstrate how to configure, execute and analyze NSP analytics reports for equipment health monitoring
  • Explain the role of forecasting in network planning
  • Describe how to configure, execute and analyze “LSP Throughput with Forecast” analytics report
  • Describe the role of the IP/MPLS Simulation application in network planning
  • Demonstrate how to import a network for simulation
  • Demonstrate how to simulate modifying LSP demand bandwidth
  • Demonstrate how to simulate modifying link bandwidth
  • Define “What-if” scenario
  • Demonstrate how to simulate link congestion
  • Describe how to simulate a link failure
  • Demonstrate how to simulate a link failure over parallel LSPs 
  • Describe how to “re-set” the simulation network
  • Define “Worst-case” scenario
  • Demonstrate how to simulate a “Worst-case” scenario

Certificate in Network Planning FAQs

Passing this exam opens doors to roles such as Network Planner, Solutions Architect, Capacity Planner, Infrastructure Consultant, and IT Strategy Analyst.

Yes. This certification validates your ability to analyse requirements, design scalable networks, and manage implementation projects—skills highly sought by employers.

This exam is ideal for network engineers, architects, capacity planners, infrastructure managers, and solutions consultants.

While hands-on planning experience is helpful, a basic understanding of networking concepts and requirement analysis is sufficient to begin.

You will be tested on requirements gathering, topology modeling, IP addressing, capacity forecasting, redundancy design, vendor evaluation, cost estimation, and migration planning.

Familiarity with network-design tools (e.g., Visio, NetBrain, or vendor-specific modeling platforms) and basic spreadsheet budgeting is beneficial.

It demonstrates your proficiency in end-to-end network planning and design, giving employers confidence in your ability to deliver reliable and cost-effective solutions.

You’ll deepen your understanding of business-driven design processes, traffic modelling, addressing schemes, resilience strategies, and financial justifications.

Absolutely. It shows clients and organisations that you can independently develop and manage network planning projects in any setting.

Yes. Educators and trainers can use this certification to validate their curriculum and develop comprehensive courses on network planning and design.