Blue Coat Technical Certifications

Differentiate your technical skills from others

If you want to be able to differentiate your IT skills from others, it's time to put your plan into action and get Blue Coat certified.  We offer the following certification programs in order to:

  • Validate and certify technical competency
  • Recognize network engineers and system administrators
  • Maximize Blue Coat technology utilization 

APPLICATION DELIVERY NETWORK (ADN) CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
Certifications Security WAN Optimization Visibility & Control
Product Focus ProxySG ProxySG PacketShaper
Certified Administrator
Certified Professional
Certified Troubleshooter coming soon coming soon

Over 7000 IT professionals have been Blue Coat certified thereby bringing valuable, measurable rewards to the organizations that employ them. Whether you are a network or security administrator, or a member of a tech support/IT help desk team, the Blue Coat Certification Program is designed to recognize IT professionals who possess the necessary skills to use Blue Coat products and technology effectively in a wide variety of settings.

*Certification exams are administered by Prometric (leading independent global provider of comprehensive testing and assessment services.)

 
Our Prometric administered exam requirements mean that your Blue Coat certification will demonstrate your  experience and skills to successfully deploy, configure,manage, and troubleshoot Blue Coat products in a variety of networking environments. 

Certification Programs: 

  • Blue Coat Security Certification is designed to provide you with the tested and certified technical skills to deploy, configure, and manage the day to day security operations of Blue Coat’s ProxySG family of appliances, as well as other network security related products such as Blue Coat Director, ProxyAV and Reporter.
     
  • Blue Coat WAN Optimization Certification is designed to provide you with the tested and certified technical skills to deploy, configure, and manage the day to day WAN Optimization operations of Blue Coat’s ProxySG family of appliances, as well as, ProxyClient set-up, proxy and bandwidth management features and Application Delivery Network configuration management.
     
  • Blue Coat Visibility and Control Certification is designed to provide you with the tested and certified technical skills to install, configure, and manage the day-to-day operations of Blue Coat’s PacketShaper appliance as well as use monitoring and reporting features to control and optimize network and application performance.
Each of these 3 certification programs offer multiple tiers (Administrator to Professional to Troubleshooter) with increasing levels of expertise and each lower certification level being a prerequisite for the next higher one.
 
All certifications are subject to passing an online Prometric exam and are valid for 2 years; the exception is Blue Coat Troubleshooting certifications which expire after one year. Blue Coat offers test-out exams, in lieu of Blue Coat training courses, for IT professionals with the respective level of technical experience and skills. Additionally, Blue Coat offers several refresher and recertification options for Blue Coat trained and certified technical staff. Please contact training@bluecoat.com  for more information.

 

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