CCDP Cisco Certified Design Professional Certification

About the CCDP Certification

The CCDP certification (Cisco Certified Design Profession) is Cisco’s Professional-level certification designed to reflect advanced knowledge of, and experience in, network design. A CCDP certified individual should be able to design routed and switched networks involving LAN, WAN, and dial access services, applying modular design practices and making sure the whole solution responds optimally to the business and technical needs of the client.
In order to take the CCDP certification a candidate must first pass the Associate-level CCDA and CCNA certifications. Once the prerequisites have been met then the candidate must pass up to three CCDP exams.

The exams are as follows:

• 642-874: Designing Cisco Network Service Architectures
• 642-902: Implementing Cisco IP Routing
• 642-813: Implementing Cisco IP Switched Networks

Career Options with a Cisco CCDP Certification

Earning a Cisco CCDP Essentials certification after you pass the required CCDP exams open up multiple career options for the entry level IT professional. You may choose to work as a LAN Network Engineer, Enterprise Infrastructure Architect, EP Lead Consultant (eCommerce), etc.

Preparing for the CCDP certification

There is no quick mantra for success. Several studies have shown that the best way to learn is to take a test! Practice tests that is. Taking practice tests before a subsequent exam appear to be the most popular method of learning, even more favored that other popular methods such as repetition and concept mapping.

A high quality test preparation software such as uCertify Prepkits will not only help you learn the 642-902, 642-813 and 642-874 exams material and pass the certification exam in your first attempt.

Prepare and Pass the CCDP certification the uCertify way!

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Benefits of the Cisco CCDP certification

The Cisco’s CCDP Certification Exam is considered by technology companies across the globe to be the industry standard measurement of a technician’s knowledge of computer networking. Surveys indicate that those with a certification are more likely to receive higher salaries and more career opportunities than those without a certification.

Some of the benefits of Cisco CCDP Certification includes:

• CCDP certification demonstrates that Cisco, the leading developer and provider of advanced network technologies has recognized you as a professional in designing, and developing a routed and switched network including LAN, WAN, and dial access services.
• It paves your way to the more advanced Cisco certifications.
• CCDP certification can make you more valuable to your company and help you get more salary and preference in promotions.
• CCDP certified professionals can get appropriate jobs and respectable position in the Networking industry.

For companies, it brings a standardized measurement of competency, helps lower training costs and typically results in higher customer satisfaction levels because of the high skill level and professionalism of those with an CCDP certification. In fact, many technology companies such as Microsoft, HP, CompTIA, CompuCom and Ricoh mandate their service technicians to be Cisco CCDP certified.