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Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE)

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The Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE) certification validates your expert-level skills in designing complex network solutions. This exam proves you can gather and clarify network functional requirements, design networks to meet those requirements, develop implementation plans, and convey design decisions with rationale. Earning CCDE distinguishes you as an elite designer of IT solutions, ready to lead complex network architecture and design projects.

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5Domains

16Objectives

90Practice pages

417Free questions

400-007 free practice questions

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2.1 End-to-end IP traffic flow in a feature-rich environment

18 questions · 4 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–18

2.2 Data, control, and management plane technologies

18 questions · 4 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–18

2.3 Centralized, decentralized, or hybrid control plane

8 questions · 2 pages

Questions 1–5 6–8

2.4 Automation/orchestration design, integration, and on-going support for networks (such as interfacing with APIs, model-driven management, controller-based technologies, and evolution to CI/CD framework)

29 questions · 6 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–29

2.5 Software-defined architecture and controller-based solution design (SD-WAN, overlay, underlay, and fabric)

12 questions · 3 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–12

2.6 Visibility, observability, and assurance

19 questions · 4 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–19

2.7 User and application experience

25 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25

3.1 Resilient, scalable, and secure modular networks, covering traditional and software-defined architectures, considering:

22 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–22

3.2 AI network design use cases (such as machine learning, large language models, and pattern recognition)

27 questions · 6 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–27

4.1 Resilient, scalable, and secure modular network design based on constraints (such as technical, operational, application, and business constraints) to support applications on the IP network (such as voice, video, backups, data center replication, IoT, and storage)

36 questions · 8 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–36

4.2 Cloud/hybrid solutions based on business-critical operations

42 questions · 9 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–42

5.1 Network security design and integration

26 questions · 6 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–26

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Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE)

400-007 free practice questions

1.1 Impact on network design, implementation, and optimization using various customer project management methodologies (for instance Waterfall and Agile)

1.2 Solutions based on business continuity and operational sustainability (for instance RPO, ROI, CAPEX/OPEX cost analysis, and risk/reward)

1.3 Environmental sustainability

1.4 AI/Machine Learning

2.1 End-to-end IP traffic flow in a feature-rich environment

2.2 Data, control, and management plane technologies

2.3 Centralized, decentralized, or hybrid control plane

2.4 Automation/orchestration design, integration, and on-going support for networks (such as interfacing with APIs, model-driven management, controller-based technologies, and evolution to CI/CD framework)

2.5 Software-defined architecture and controller-based solution design (SD-WAN, overlay, underlay, and fabric)

2.6 Visibility, observability, and assurance

2.7 User and application experience

3.1 Resilient, scalable, and secure modular networks, covering traditional and software-defined architectures, considering:

3.2 AI network design use cases (such as machine learning, large language models, and pattern recognition)

4.1 Resilient, scalable, and secure modular network design based on constraints (such as technical, operational, application, and business constraints) to support applications on the IP network (such as voice, video, backups, data center replication, IoT, and storage)

4.2 Cloud/hybrid solutions based on business-critical operations

5.1 Network security design and integration

Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE)

400-007 free practice questions

Domain 1 · 1.0 Business Strategy Design32% of practice bank · 4 objectives · 135 questions32%

Domain 2 · 2.0 Control, Data, Management Plane, and Operational Design31% of practice bank · 7 objectives · 129 questions31%

Domain 3 · 3.0 Network Design12% of practice bank · 2 objectives · 49 questions12%

Domain 4 · 4.0 Service Design19% of practice bank · 2 objectives · 78 questions19%

Domain 5 · 5.0 Security Design6% of practice bank · 1 objectives · 26 questions6%