Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE 400-007) Official Cert Guide

Introduction

Congratulations! If you are reading this Introduction, then you likely have decided to pursue the Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE) certification, a mostly vendor-agnostic, expert-level network design certification. Network design is imperative to implementing a successful, secure network, yet networking professionals typically are not taught network design, including the fundamentals, principles, techniques, frameworks, and pitfalls, early enough in their careers.

One of the major difficulties of network design is that it can’t be pre-scripted or templated, because each design decision, even if it’s comparing the same design options, can have very different business drivers, outcomes, constraints, and overall circumstances that ...