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★ Professional Pathway · 4 Certifications

Run your own network support practice.

The full freelance stack: prove you can fix the network and run the business behind it. Networking, entrepreneurship, customer innovation and bookkeeping: four credentials in one certification pathway.

Training for all four certifications is included with your bundle. Learn at your own pace, then certify when you're ready.

Training included · 4 official credentials · Retakes included · Compare both paths ↓
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Network Support Freelancer
Certiport My Pathway career credential
4
Stackable certifications
1
Retake per exam, included
Any
Order: sit exams as you're ready
10
Countries where you can certify
Why this pathway

Knowing how to fix a network is one thing. Running a profitable practice is another.

Businesses of every size depend on their networks, and they'll pay someone who can configure routers, troubleshoot outages, harden security and keep things running. That's the technical half. The half many technicians never learn is the business: how to quote a job, invoice a client, keep clean books and actually get paid.

Network Support Freelancer is built to close that gap. It pairs a hands-on Cisco networking credential with the entrepreneurship, customer-innovation and bookkeeping skills a self-employed technician needs to turn a skill into an income.

Fix it

Cisco networking: configure, troubleshoot and secure the networks clients run on.

Sell it

Entrepreneurship and customer-innovation skills to win work and design services people want.

Get paid for it

QuickBooks bookkeeping: quote, invoice, reconcile and report like a real business.

What you'll earn

Four credentials, one career stack.

This pathway mirrors the official Certiport My Pathway structure: three core credentials plus the bookkeeping layer. Training for all four is included with your bundle, and exams can be taken in any order.

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Cisco · CCST

CCST Networking

Cisco's entry point into networking: addressing, routing, infrastructure and the troubleshooting skills support roles need.

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Certiport · ESB

Entrepreneurship & Small Business

The business fundamentals of going solo: planning, marketing, financing and running a venture clients take seriously.

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Intuit · D4D

Design for Delight Innovator

Intuit's customer-innovation method: empathy, rapid experiments and solving real client problems.

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Intuit · QBCU

QuickBooks Online

Cloud bookkeeping: invoicing, reconciliation and reporting for small businesses.

The official Certiport pathway requires the QuickBooks Online edition. This bundle includes the Online version, so you certify on the required certification.
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Sample: Cisco CCST Networking certificate
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Sample: Entrepreneurship & Small Business certificate
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Sample: Intuit certification certificate
Why certification first

Five problems graduates face, and how proof of skill fixes them.

Clients can't see your skills until something breaks. A certification pathway gives them proof before they hire you.

A network technician shows a Cisco certification to a hiring manager
Problem 01 · Unemployment

"Good with computers" isn't a job title

IT applicants all claim the same skills.

The fix: a Cisco credential employers can verify.
An intern patches network cables in a server cabinet
Problem 02 · Internships

Interns kept off the network

Nobody lets an untested trainee touch the core switch.

The fix: proof you can configure and troubleshoot safely.
A freelance technician invoices a small-business client on a laptop
Problem 03 · Entrepreneurship

Good technicians, unpaid invoices

Many freelancers can fix networks but can't price, invoice or track jobs.

The fix: ESB and QuickBooks to run the business side.
A technician maps a small office network on a whiteboard
Problem 04 · Deeper Understanding

Fixing symptoms, not causes

Trial-and-error troubleshooting wastes client time.

The fix: networking fundamentals plus a customer-first design method.
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Problem 05 · Global Reach

Local skills, invisible abroad

Remote clients need a standard they recognize.

The fix: Cisco, Certiport and Intuit credentials verifiable anywhere.
How it works

Two ways to learn. One proof of skill.

Learn on your own with OneSkillAway or with a trainer at EdgePoint. Both paths lead to OneCertificationAway.

Equip · OneSkillAway
Do it yourself · self-paced skills

Self-paced bundle

LearnKey training for all four certifications, plus vouchers, retakes and GMetrix practice tests.

$455 · 3-installment plan
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Transform · EdgePoint
Do it with us · guided career coaching

EdgePoint Guided

The same pathway with a trainer and career coaching. Cohorts start 1 January, 1 April, 1 July and 1 October, with a minimum of 10 candidates. Switch from self-paced by paying the difference.

$695 · 3-installment plan
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Empower · OneCertificationAway
Get certified · globally recognized certification

Certify all four

Sit the official exams in any order at a Certiport Authorized Testing Center, or online where there's no center nearby, and become a certified graduate.

Book your exam →

Both paths lead to OneCertificationAway, and both unlock SkillUp Pro. Not every pathway runs as a guided class, so check available classes first.

The complete bundle

Everything in, one price.

Network Support Freelancer · Self-paced

4 certifications · training · vouchers · retakes · practice tests
$455$540
Save $85 versus buying each certification separately
3-installment plan available via WhatsApp
✓CCST Networking voucher + retake
✓ESB voucher + retake
✓Design for Delight Innovator voucher + retake
✓QuickBooks Online voucher + retake
✓GMetrix practice tests for all four
✓LearnKey training access included
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For pathway builders

Planning to certify well beyond this pathway?

SkillUp Pro has no annual fee. Buying any pathway bundle (self-paced or guided) or any Mastery Challenge unlocks it automatically; à-la-carte purchases don't. Once you're a member, every additional à-la-carte voucher you buy that year is 25% off. It doesn't discount the bundles themselves, and discounts don't stack.

No fee
Unlocked by any pathway bundle or Mastery Challenge
Where you can certify

Available in 10 countries.

Sit your exams at a Certiport Authorized Testing Center, or online if there's no center near you.

BotswanaEswatiniLesothoMadagascarMalawiMauritiusNamibiaSeychellesZambiaZimbabwe
Option 1 · Default

At a testing center

Sit your exams at a Certiport Authorized Testing Center (CATC) near you, with the workstation and connection provided.

Option 2 · Where there's no CATC nearby

Live online exam

Available only where there's no Certiport Authorized Testing Center nearby. Exams are live-proctored through Certiport Compass Cloud, and you need a full workstation with a webcam and a fast, stable connection. You earn the same certificate and badge.

Please note: online candidates are liable for any interruptions on their side, including network, power and device issues.

Your network skills are one certification away from an income.

Get the bundle today. Train all four certifications on OneSkillAway or with an EdgePoint trainer, then certify when you're ready to prove it.

From a Certiport Authorized Partner · Exams can be taken in any order · USD pricing
EPCON · Certify. Build. Pitch.

Your Network Support Freelancer Certifications Are Your Ticket To EPCON 2027

EPCON is Zimbabwe's National Student Technology Skills Championship. Certification is the first stage: get certified, build a capstone project, then pitch it.

Registrations open 1 November 2026, and the national finals take place on 3–4 December 2027.

Qualifies you for

CCST NetworkingEntrepreneurshipIntuit QuickBooks

CCST Networking qualifies you for the CCST Networking track, ESB for the Entrepreneurship track (which feeds the NFTE World Series), and QuickBooks Online Certified User for the Intuit QuickBooks track.

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