Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP)
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This vendor-specific certification is offered by:
Cisco Systems
San Jose,
CA,
USA
Phone: 800-553-6387
Email: ciscotraining@cisco.com
Skill Level:
Intermediate
Status:
Active
Certification Summary:
For individuals who can discuss, design, and create advanced addressing and routing, security, network management, data center, and IP multicast complex multi-layered enterprise architectures that include virtual private networking and wireless domains. This includes building scalable internetworks, building multilayer switched networks, and designing network service architecture.
Initial requirements:
You must hold valid CCDA and CCNA certifications or any CCIE designation. You must then pass three additional exams: Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BICSI); Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks (BCMSN); and Designing Cisco Network Architectures (ARCH). Exams are $125. Training is available but not required.
You can elect to take the composite exam ($300) in place of the BSCI and BCMSN exams, shortening the path to certification by one exam.
Continuing requirements:
Certifications are valid for three years. To recertify, pass any 642 exam that is part of the professional level curriculum or any CCIE/CCDE written exam before the certification expiration date.
Low Cost:
$450
High Cost:
$0
Online resources:
A broad selection of Cisco training packages is available from our partner, CBT Nuggets, ranging from basic CCNA training all they way up to advanced CCIE and CCSP materials.
Offline resources:
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