Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP™)

Computer certification programs are setting the standards for the information technology (IT) industry worldwide. Although most careers in the IT and communications fields are lucrative and lead to rapid advancement, you can move ahead even more rapidly if you have been certified. In fact, you often can earn a salary increase of 20% or more once you become certified. Nowadays, having a degree in computer science just isn't enough. Companies are demanding that their IT professionals be certified as a way to measure their skills as well as to guarantee that they can perform their jobs successfully. In short, certification will help a computer professional get a good job and stay competitive in what is now a highly demanding IT environment.

This training would be beneficial for individuals looking for IT job positions such as: Network Administrator, Windows Administrator, Senior Network Engineer, Windows System Engineer, Linux Administrator, IT Manager, Unix Administrator, Network Security Specialist, Senior Security Engineer, Information Security Manager or a Chief Security Officer.

The Cisco Design Professional (CCDP) certification indicates advanced journeyman knowledge of intelligent network design concepts and principles. A CCDP credentialed network professional 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.

Exam 642-812 BCMSN: Building Converged Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks (BCMSN 3.0)

• Spanning Tree Protocol concepts
• Virtual LAN (VLAN), VLAN trunking, and inter-VLAN routing
• Gateway redundancy technologies and protocols
• Wireless LAN topologies, components, connectivity, and standards
• Implementing a Cisco Unified Wireless Network
• Wireless client access
• Access layer voice concepts
• Preventing and mitigating attacks against switched network security

Exam 642-901 BSCI: Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI 3.0)

• Essential routing principles for designing and managing scalable networks
• EIGRP, OSPF, and IS-IS functions and operation
• Basic BGP configuration
• Multicast routing
• Cisco IOS® routing features, including redistribution, route filtering, and DHCP
• IPv6 addressing and the transition from IPv4 to IPv6

Exam 642-873 ARCH: Designing Cisco Network Architectures (Arch 2.0)

• Design campus Infrastructure using best practices
• Design a High Availability enterprise network
• Design a high availability WAN
• Design network management services
• Design IP multicast services
• Describe enterprise VoWLAN design considerations
• Design a high availability data center network that is modular, flexible and meets standards
• Describe the components and technologies of a SAN network
• Design an effective E-Commerce module
• Utilize firewalls
• Utilize the NAC appliance
• Utilize IPsec VPNs