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Building Cisco Remote Access Networks - Part 2 


This is the second course in a five-part series on Building Cisco Remote Access Networks 1.0 (
BCRAN 1.0). This series teaches students how to build a remote access network to interconnect central sites to branch offices and home office/telecommuters. In addition, controlling access to a central site, as well as how to maximize bandwidth utilization over remote links is covered. This part in the
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Computer Telephony Integration 
This
WestNet e-Learning module provides a broad overview of the way
CTI typically works. We will then describe the different levels of automation that fall under the general category of CTI and define some of the key terms and concepts necessary to understand CTI functionality.
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Conducting Effective Sales Research Meetings 
Researching your target accounts is important for understanding your customer's business. But only by conducting research meetings will you learn the "inside" information you need to truly understand the business fit between your company and your customer. In this course, you'll learn about bringing your research and communication skills together in strategic account sales (
SAS) research meetings.
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Effectively Using Customer-focused Research Meetings 
In this course, you'll learn about bringing your research and communication skills together in territorial account research meetings. By conducting research meetings, you'll get the inside perspective you need to truly understand your customer. You'll start by learning how to prepare for an effective research meeting. Next, you'll explore how to conduct research meetings to gather desired
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Planning Your Field Sales Approach 
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Sales Approach provides practical tools for determining call and meeting objectives and developing appropriate openings for face-to-face selling situations. Included in the course are detailed descriptions of the six customer buying roles a field salesperson typically encounters and tips for working effectively with each. This course demonstrates how to generate effective account profiles,
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Sales Planning a Sales Call 


...Call, is the tenth of sixteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify the steps involved in planning a sales call and identify the essential elements of a sales objective. The
PrimeSales curriculum engages sales professionals in a top-down roll-out of techniques that have been proven to maximize bottom-line results
New and experienced sales
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Sales The Sales Call 


...Call, is the eleventh of sixteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify the guidelines for opening a sales call, list the steps in making an opening statement, and identify opening statement variations according to the type of call. The
PrimeSales curriculum engages sales professionals in a top-down roll-out of techniques that have been
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Sales Concluding a Call 


...Call, is the sixteenth of sixteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify the guidelines for concluding a call, and conclude a call using the six steps . The
PrimeSales curriculum engages sales professionals in a top-down roll-out of techniques that have been proven to maximize bottom-line results. New and experienced sales representatives,
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Applying Your Field Sales Approach 
...and access the decision makers--often in one or two sales calls. Sound impossible? It's not if the sales professional applies the essentials presented in
Applying Your Field Sales Approach. This course provides sales strategies to change your customers' perceptions of you from vendor to sales consultant by addressing these important factors: asking the right questions and listening to customer
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Completing Your Field Sales Approach 
What does it take to successfully present valuable solutions and close sales while achieving a sense of accomplishment and trust between you and your customer? Completing
Your Field Sales Approach highlights how to present sales solutions and close sales with your customers. Included in the course are steps and tips for overcoming customer objections effectively. You'll have opportunities to
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Field Sales Skills Simulation 
...on for a wholesale supplier of natural herbs and remedies called
Vita-Boost. With allergy season right around the corner, Vita-Boost's latest product,
Ally-Tabs, looks to be a promising product. These tablets are just as effective as a preventative measure as they are at treating symptoms. Since they are all natural, there are no side effects associated with taking the pills. Because it's a new
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Preparing for Outbound Sales Calls 
...calls begin long before the salesperson places the call. Successful inside selling is all about planning and being prepared. Being prepared means knowing what to expect from your customer and planning your responses. In this course, you will learn about the common perceptions customers have of salespeople. You will also learn the three premises of the inside sales approach, the structure of
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Initiating Outbound Sales Calls 
...on your customer. Knowing how to initiate an inside sales call is a key to your success. In this course, you will learn the strategies for dealing with voice mail and call screeners and for making a successful initial contact with a customer. You will also learn the four profile types and strategies for creating account profiles. In this course, you will learn how to assess a sales opportunity,
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Completing Outbound Sales Calls 
...til it's over." This is especially true with inside sales calls. To be a successful inside sales consultant, you need to know how to keep your customer's attention all the way through the close of the sale. In this course, you will learn strategies for contacting the decision maker and for dealing with gatekeepers. You will learn the steps involved in a sales presentation, how to determine the
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Preparing for Inbound Sales Calls 
...side sales agent begins planning long before the customer calls. Successful inside selling is all about being prepared, and that means thinking ahead on customer inquiries and responses you will give. This course identifies the common perceptions that customers have of salespeople. In the course, you will learn the three premises of the inside sales approach, the structure of this approach, and
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Completing Inbound Sales Calls 
...call leads up to the completion of the sale. A successful inside sales consultant knows how to keep a customer's attention all the way through the close of the sale. In this course, you will learn the process for assessing a sales opportunity, the four factors used to qualify a sales opportunity, and strategies for qualifying a sales opportunity. You will also learn the steps for making the
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Inside Sales Skills Simulation 
You are an inside sales representative for
Muscle-Bound Fitness, a franchise of fitness facilities with a unique corporate wellness offering. In this simulation, your boss has asked you to contact a potential new customer. This new lead, a network television station known as
TV-22, is a perfect candidate for
Muscle-Bound's corporate wellness program, and your job is to convince them of such by
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Sales Negotiations Negotiation Execution 
In
Sales Negotiations ? Negotiation
Execution, you will learn about the negotiation process, the key players in a negotiation, and ways to maintain control of the negotiation. Additionally, this course covers guidelines for dealing with difficult people and strategies for dealing with less-than-ideal scenarios and outcomes. After completing this course, you will be prepared to negotiate
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Call Center Structures The Call Center Profession 
This course describes the functions, structure and key players of a typical call center, and underscores the uniqueness of the profession. Agents who need an understanding of the fundamental structures and relationships in the call center profession.
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Call Center Operations Performance Measurement 
This course describes how the manager must balance the sometimes conflicting interests of the center s stakeholders. It also demonstrates how
KPIs (
Key Performance Indicators) are applied to evaluate both agent and call center performance. Agents who want to progress to an understanding of call center operations, including workforce management, technological applications and performance
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Call Center Operations Workforce Management 
This course describes forecasting, scheduling, occupancy and staffing principles, and explains their impact on the life of an agent and the success of a call center. Agents who want to progress to an understanding of call center operations, including workforce management, technological applications and performance measurement for both agents and call centers.
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Call Center Operations Call Center Technologies 
This course shows how technology can lead to excellence in customer service, through call routing applications at the agent level and performance management tools at managerial level. Agents who want to progress to an understanding of call center operations, including workforce management, technological applications and performance measurement for both agents and call centers.
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Introducing Contact Centers Contact Center Essentials 
This course introduces the functions of customer contact centers and the roles of customer service representatives (
CSRs) to provide exemplary customer service. Professionals who want to provide best-in-class customer service for clients by effectively using telephone, fax and
Internet technologies
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Communicating Effectively Build Customer Rapport 2 
This course provides learners tips and techniques to improve verbal and written communication skills in order to deliver excellent customer service. Professionals who want to provide best-in-class customer service for clients by effectively using telephone, fax and
Internet technologies
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Preparing for Mutual Success Satisfy Customer Needs 
This course helps learners to distinguish different customer characteristics, recognize appropriate techniques to successfully respond to each type of person and convert difficult situations into a positive experience. Professionals who want to provide best-in-class customer service for clients by effectively using telephone, fax and
Internet technologies
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Preparing for Mutual Success Reduce CSR Stress 
This course provides several strategies to help
CSRs cope with stressful customer situations while maintaining a courteous and professional demeanor. Professionals who want to provide best-in-class customer service for clients by effectively using telephone, fax and
Internet technologies
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Technical Support Essentials 
...o need to understand the various elements and stages of a call--and what to do with the information gained. This course explains contact center technology and
TSA activities. It covers the technology that links the TSA to the customer and to the resources needed to assist the customer. It also provides instruction and practice to help the TSA use that technology effectively. Upon completion of
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Assessing Customer Behavior 
In the modern customer-centric business model, dealing with all customers in a positive and efficient manner is paramount. But this goal can become daunting to a
TSA who has not developed the ability to identify various behavior types and apply appropriate techniques to deal with them in a way that builds a positive relationship between the customer and the company. This course instructs agents in
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The Inbound Call Center 
...call center managers of this century will face many of the same challenges that their counterparts faced in the
20th century. The emphasis will still be on the development and acquisition of cost-effective methods to provide customers with the service they demand. By ensuring that you have a good knowledge base of the inbound call center industry, you are establishing a sturdy framework for
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Inbound Call Center Management Leadership 
...abulous manager, you may not be an effective leader? As a call center manager, how can you motivate everyone, including senior management, to work together toward a common goal? As you progress through this "
Inbound Call Center Management:
Leadership" course, you will become aware that enhancing your leadership skills can move you closer to your goal of managing an efficient and team-oriented
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Inbound Call Centers People Management 
...call centers are often the only link between a company and its customers. As a call center manager, you want to hire agents with special customer service "genes."
Good call center agents do a better job on the telephone, are happier with their work, and genuinely enjoy helping customers. This course will help you staff your call center with the right people for the job. You'll learn how to
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Inbound Call Center Technology 
...call center is constantly changing and improving. How can you, as a call center manager, keep up with this advancing technology? Moreover, why should you? This course will explain the fundamentals of inbound call center technology, and explore ways current technology might evolve. It examines different methods of obtaining this technology, and outlines how to protect your call center through
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Performance Metrics for an Inbound Call Center 
...call center environment typifies the active, fast pace of the business world. In this hectic environment, is there time to consider how things are being done? There should be. As the call center industry slowly transforms into a customer management industry, the impetus will be on call center managers to ensure customers receive the best service possible. But where do you look to analyze
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The Customer Service Agent in Action 
...n customer service agents (
CSAs) working in nearly 80,000 call centers in the
United States. Call centers are burgeoning in
Europe and the
Pacific Rim as well, and experts predict that the number of CSAs will grow by 20 percent each year. Worldwide, revenues for the call center industry could soon reach almost $60 billion. The magnitude of these numbers suggests the important role that customer
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Professional Skills for Customer Service Agents 
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Service Agents" covers professional issues such as call-center ethics and call protocol; procedures and techniques for handling calls and gaining customer confidence; and questioning and listening skills to help you address customer concerns more effectively. You will learn skills that help
CSAs to efficiently and respectfully gather customer information and, where appropriate, take
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Managing Challenges in Customer Service 
...call center, customer service agents (
CSAs) handle dozens of customer calls. The calls may range from simple requests for product information to urgent demands for solutions to complex problems. The callers may range from quiet, logical, and professional in their manner to noisy, impatient, and infuriated. CSAs are expected to meet the challenges of handling all of these calls and customers
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Cross-selling in a Customer Service Call 
...y being flexible. Flexibility is a key factor in customer call centers. As a customer service agent (
CSA), you handle dozens of calls a day, effectively helping customers by providing efficient solutions. At the end of this positive interaction, it makes sense to recommend additional or better products that will further aid customers. Customer service agents have become a vital source of
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Customer Service Agent Skills Simulation 
Kenworth
Domestic Appliances (
KDA) is a national manufacturer and direct seller of household devices, offering a line of products that ranges from toasters to central-air conditioning units. Post-sales support is critical to their operation, and KDA prides itself on superior customer service. For the duration of this simulation, the learner will assume the role of customer service agent generalist
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The Call Center Industry 
When people pick up a phone and hear someone greeting them from the
XYZ Company, they put little thought into the people, process, or technology behind the phone call. To them, the person on the phone is just a voice on the other end of the line. This course will examine all of the aspects of a call center. In order to facilitate this examination, this course has been broken down into three parts:
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Call Center Customer Service 
...call center customer service representative? Maybe you are experiencing some feelings of anxiety, as do many novice agents. You may be concerned about dealing with customers' issues one-on-one. Fortunately, there is a comprehensive training course for people in your situation. This course will help you overcome reservations about customer service in a call center setting. This course for
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Call Center Communication Skills 
... customer service and sales. This is especially true in a call center environment. Call centers can be high pressure, fast-paced environments where you may have to deal with hundreds of people in one day. That is why it is so important to fine tune your communication skills. This course will examine handling different personalities, questioning skills, and telephone skills. These skills are
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Call Center Telephone Sales 
How many times have you attempted to get your point across over the phone, only for it to end up unsuccessful? Would you like to improve your conversational skills? When you take this course, you will learn how to save your and your customer's time. Learn which principles and techniques of selling, professional presentation approaches, and telemarketing laws apply to you. Using your time
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Effective Communication Skills 
Effective communication is essential to the success of any customer-oriented business. Each customer will have their own style of communication as well as an emotional response to contacting a support center. In order to effectively communicate, the
Customer Support Specialist (
CSS) must understand how to adapt to these different styles and emotions before the customer's problems can be dealt
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Customer Support Specialist Simulation 
...call center representative for
BroadBandCast Inc., one of the world's leading communication companies. Digital cable TV, high-speed
Internet, and phone service are among the company's products. You are a recent hire. An added challenge to your new position is that you have been assigned to work the graveyard shift. Your challenge is to figure out how to handle dealing with angry, difficult, and
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Customer Service Procedures 
Failing to realize the importance of customer service and effective complaints handling leads to increasingly dissatisfied customers. Organizations need to be able to address the needs of customers in an effective and efficient manner. This course is intended to show the proper procedures and processes needed to provide effective customer service: how to properly support a customer, how to provide
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The Customer Support Specialist CSS 
It costs a business much more to acquire a new customer than it does to retain an existing one. So it makes sense that a business must do everything it can to support and satisfy existing customers. Handling complaints effectively and efficiently can result in increased customer loyalty. Today's
Customer Support Specialists (
CSS) and support centers have a vital role to play in ensuring customers'
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Making Telephone Calls Count 
...call a day, or dozens, you have the power to make every call count. Is the service you deliver to your customers over the telephone merely satisfactory, or is it superior? When challenges present themselves, how well do you handle yourself? What do your actions say about your company? You may think telephone interactions are all simple and straightforward. The customer talks. You listen. But
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Using Effective Business Communication 
Someone walks into your office and tells you that the ten important packages you couriered have safely arrived in
Albany,
New York. Unfortunately, they were supposed to go to Albany,
Georgia. This is an announcement no one wants to hear. This course is designed to help you use effective business communication as an effective administrative support professional. Learn about etiquette in the
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Experimenting for Process Improvement 
The
Improve phase of the
Six Sigma DMAIC methodology concerns locating the optimal conditions of a process. Many improvement techniques used in
Six Sigma concentrate on the impact of single factors on response or yield. In order to achieve breakthrough improvements, however, it is necessary to determine how multiple interacting factors impact response. This course introduces the sophisticated
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Leadership in Six Sigma 
...ching a
Six Sigma initiative. Each business must learn to call upon the strengths and abilities of its diverse professionals, from executives to highly trained technical specialists. What are the roles of each in the Six Sigma process? What planning should take place to launch their efforts? How can you tell whether your organization is really ready to take on Six Sigma? What is the proper
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Advanced ASP NET Topics 
To demonstrate how to migrate
ASP to ASP.NET, leverage legacy compenents, create and use .NET components, and install and configure ASP.NET servers
Web developers who are familiar with the fundamentals of
Microsoft ASP.NET and who wish to broaden their ASP.NET programming abilities, especially those pursuing
MCAD or
MCSD .NET certification
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Adding Services and Components in C 
To demonstrate how to add services and components in C# Application developers with some experience in C# who wish to become familiar with developing user services in the .NET Framework, especially those who wish to attain the Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (
MCSD) or Microsoft Certified Application Developer (
MCAD) for
Microsoft .NET credentials
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Adding Services and Components in VB NET 
To demonstrate how to add services and components in VB.NET Application developers with some experience in
Visual Basic .NET who wish to become familiar with developing user services in the .NET Framework, especially those who wish to attain the Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (
MCSD) or Microsoft Certified Application Developer (
MCAD) for
Microsoft .NET credentials
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Communicating and Implementing Requirements 
A business analyst expresses the output of a requirements analysis and documentation phase by presenting, communicating, and gaining approval of the requirements from project stakeholders. Once this solution design is agreed upon, the business analyst assists with detailed design work, testing and quality assurance activities, and supporting solution implementation.This course will explore methods
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How a Local Exchange Works 
This
WestNet e-Learning module focuses on telephone central offices (
COs), the telephone numbering system, and the physical connections that transmit signals between customers and COs.
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PBX and ACD Systems 
This
WestNet e-Learning module focuses on the private branch exchange (
PBX) telephone switching system. We will see how a combination of telephone switching and dedicated lines can create a wide area voice and data network that can treat most intraoffice calls as "local."
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Introduction to ISDN 
To introduce integrated services digital network concepts, services, and applications
Network managers, builders of wide area networks, systems engineers, and technical support staff
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IP Video Telephony 
To recognize the characteristics and protocols of video call technology, and how to implement IP video telephony in a
Cisco environment IT professionals responsible for installing, configuring, and maintaining the ongoing administration of a
Cisco IP Telephony solution; candidates preparing for the Cisco IP Telephony exam (
642-444 CIPT)
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Introducing Voice Over IP 
To identify the components and signalling protocols of
VoIP, recognize how VoIP works with the centralized and distributed architectures, and determine the gateway requirements to support both architectures in enterprise and service provider environments IT professionals responsible for preparing, configuring, and maintaining a voice and data network; candidates preparing for the
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Building and Securing VoIP Networks 
To identify how to implement numbering plans and scalable dial plans for
VoIP networks, calculate existing bandwidth and additional bandwidth requirements for voice and data traffic, and recognize the implications of implementing security measures in IP networks that transport voice IT professionals responsible for preparing, configuring, and maintaining a voice and data network; candidates
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Cisco ONT 1 0 Network Requirements and Introduction to VoIP 
To recognize the converged network requirements within the
Cisco conceptual network models, the basic principles of
VoIP networks and conversion to them, call control mechanisms, and how voice is digitized for data transport
Individuals preparing for the Cisco Certified Network Professional CCNP and the Cisco Certified Design Professional CCDP certifications; senior-level network support
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Cisco ONT 1 0 Supporting VoIP 
To recognize how voice is encapsulated, bandwidth requirements and overhead, and how voice is implemented in an enterprise
Individuals preparing for the Cisco Certified Network Professional CCNP and the Cisco Certified Design Professional CCDP certifications; senior-level network support professionals, network administrators, network engineers, network managers, systems managers, or network
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CCNT Computer-Telephony Integration Essentials v6 0 
This course introduces
CTI and covers CTI architecture and CTI hardware. It also teaches CTI markets and CTI system development. Candidates work in the data and telecommunications industries and are preparing for the Computer-Telephony Integration Essentials module of the
CCNT exam. Typical job roles include telecom and call center managers. Average computer literacy is desirable.
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