Cisco CCDP Exam and Training

Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP)

Cisco CCDP Certification Description:

The Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP) certification from Cisco Certification was established in 2001 and is aimed at students who are currently employed in the Enterprise environments, or those who want to find employment in those environments, and want to obtain the Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP) certification.

The Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP) certification certifies that a successful Cisco Certified Design Professional has learnt the knowledge need to planning, designing, and implementing highly available networks. The successful Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP) certified student will have knowledge of the usage and features of Internet Protocols, the application of Switching, Routing, and Caching. These are all fields in the Enterprise environments.

Cisco CCDP Certification Prerequisites:

The Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP) certification is only available to students who have success fully acquired the Cisco CCDA or CCNA certification.

Cisco CCDP Certification Required Exams:

To be awarded the Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP) certification, the CCDP student must successfully pass two or three exams namely; the Cisco 642-801 Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BCSI) exam, the Cisco 642-811 Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks (BCMSN) exam and the Cisco 642-871 Designing Cisco Network Service Architectures (ARCH) exam; or the Cisco 642-891 Composite exam and the Cisco 642-871 Designing Cisco Network Service Architectures (ARCH) exam.

Cisco CCDP Certification Recertification:

A successful CCDP student will hold the Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA) certification for three years only, after which the Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA) student must re-validate their Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA) certification by retaking and passing the Cisco 642-891 Composite exam, or taking and passing both the Cisco 642-801 Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BCSI) and the Cisco 642-811 Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks (BCMSN) exams, or taking and passing the Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert written exam.

Preparing for Cisco CCDP Certificate:

There are plenty of Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP) study materials available on the Internet. These range from the official Cisco Certification Training courses and official Cisco Self Study Training Guides from Cisco Press, to the Testking CCDP practice exams and Testking CCDP study guides. Online practice exams and CCDP braindumps are also available online.

More Cisco CCDP Certification Information:

You can find more information about the Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP) certification on the internet on websites like at www.testking.com, www.certifyexpress.com and at www.cisco.com itself.