Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE)

Overview

Cisco recently announced a new Expert level certification to sit alongside the Routing & Switching, Voice, Security, Service Provider and Storage Networking CCIE programs. The Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE) program was created to recognize senior level network designers and architects. The program also gives senior operations and support network engineers a validated professional development path for moving into a network architecture role that participates in business strategy.

The new certification identifies those with expert-level knowledge and skills in Infrastructure Design. CCDE is parallel to CCIE in terms of difficulty, and expertise. It emphasizes network design principles and theory at the Layer 3 level or Routing layer and recognizes expertise of designers that have the knowledge to assess network business requirements and can translate them into technical specifications to be incorporated into successful designs.

The new Expert program is modelled after the industry leading CCIE program with a "qualification" and subsequent "practical" exam. To achieve your Expert level certification you are required to pass two exams.

First you have to pass the Written Exam. GBDirect recommends you attend the courses in the relevant Professional Level. For example we would recommend that you attend the Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP) courses to prepare for the 352-001 CCDE Written Exam.

Secondly, you have to pass the Lab Exam, which requires you to put the acquired knowledge into practice. You are required to pass the Written Exam first before scheduling the Lab Exam.

Currently, the qualification exam is available worldwide at any Pearson VUE testing centre. The CCDE Practical exam is a design-scenario exam that tests your ability to perform design analysis, justify design requirements, and develop a design implementation based on best practices. The exam will assess your ability to apply your specific body of knowledge into current business problems of technical network design.

The topics covered in the Practical exam are located within the exam blueprint. The exam scenarios will change each instance the exam is delivered, however, the topics will remain the same.

Please call our Training Sales team on 0800 651 0338 or email training@gbdirect.co.uk for more information.

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