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DELL TECHNOLOGIESDell Networking Design
The Dell Networking Design certification validates your ability to architect and design robust, scalable network solutions using Dell Technologies networking products. It is intended for network architects and engineers who translate business requirements into resilient, high-performance network designs. Earning this credential demonstrates your expertise in designing modern data center and campus networks that align with industry best practices.
Exam formatMultiple choice
DeliveryPearson VUE
Free questions409
Content last reviewed 30 July 2026 · Up to date
The certification
What Dell Networking Design proves, and what it asks of you
What this certification covers, who it is written for, and what the exam itself looks like on the day.
6domains
20objectives
83concepts
What it is
What this certification is
What it validates, who it is written for, and the experience it assumes.
About this certification
The Dell Networking Design certification is a Specialist-level credential within the Dell Proven Professional program. It validates your skills in designing network solutions that meet performance, scalability, and reliability requirements. The certification focuses on the practical application of design principles to Dell networking technologies, ensuring you can create architectures that support modern enterprise workloads.
Earning this certification demonstrates your ability to assess customer needs, evaluate design constraints, and produce network designs that are both efficient and future-ready. It is ideal for professionals who are responsible for the planning and design phases of network projects, and who need to ensure their designs align with Dell's best practices and industry standards.
Who it’s for
This certification is for network architects, network engineers, and solutions designers who are involved in designing and planning network infrastructures. It is also suitable for IT professionals who want to formalize their expertise in Dell networking design and advance their careers in network architecture. You should have a solid understanding of networking fundamentals, including routing, switching, and network security, and be comfortable working with Dell networking products and solutions. The certification is designed for those who are ready to take on the challenge of designing complex network environments.
Recommended experience
Dell recommends that candidates have a strong foundation in networking concepts and some hands-on experience with Dell networking products before attempting this certification. Understanding of networking fundamentals, including OSI model, TCP/IP, and routing protocols; Experience with designing and implementing network solutions; Familiarity with Dell networking product portfolio and solutions; Knowledge of network security principles and best practices
The syllabus
What you’ll learn
Every domain and objective Dell Technologies measures, with the weight they carry on the exam.
The official Dell Technologies exam outline · checked 30 July 2026 · See the source
Concepts
- Understand the networking design role.
- Describe common roles.
- Explain service options.
- Describe the EPS tool.
Scoping
- Explain the project flow.
- Describe the FastList tool.
- Describe the Financial Force tool.
Planning
- Planning Fundamentals
- L2 and L3 Planning
- Platform and Ecosystem Planning
- Network and Storage Planning
- Resilience and Recovery Planning
Documentation
- Understand the use of templates.
- Identify which specific templates to use.
- Describe how to modify templates.
- Verify EDP pre-deployment checks are complete.
Scripting Tools
- Utilize the FastScript tool to generate scripts.
- Identify the different labs for verifying scripts.
Deployment Support
- Explain the deployment support options.
- Identify common troubleshooting issues.
On the day
The exam itself
Everything Dell Technologies publishes about sitting it, and nothing we inferred.
Prerequisites
No mandatory prerequisites — this certification has no required predecessor exam or credential.
CertificationDell Networking Design
Exam formatMultiple choice
DeliveryPearson VUE
LanguagesEnglish
After you pass
Where this credential goes next
The path Dell Technologies lays out, how the credential is kept, and where to book.
Step-by-step path to Dell Networking Design
Credential earnedDell Networking Design Certification Lifecycle status
This certification is currently active and available. Dell Technologies maintains this certification to validate current skills and industry relevance.
Exam status: ActiveMaintained by Dell Technologies
Exam registration
Register for the exam through Pearson VUE, Dell Technologies’s authorized testing partner.
Schedule your examVisit the official Dell Technologies certification page for exam policies and requirements.
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And when you are serious, your coach Pip takes over
Your coach in the app reads what you have answered with the book closed and tells you one thing to do tonight. It will not count an answer you gave with the page open, and it will tell you when you are not ready.
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Questions people ask
Is the Dell Networking Design certification part of a larger certification path?
The Dell Networking Design certification is a Specialist-level credential within the Dell Proven Professional program. It can be pursued independently, and there is no mandatory prerequisite certification required to take the exam.
How does the Dell Networking Design exam relate to other Dell networking certifications?
The Dell Networking Design certification focuses specifically on design skills, complementing other Dell networking certifications that cover deployment and operations, such as PowerSwitch Data Center Deploy and PowerSwitch Campus Deploy.
What is the delivery format for the Dell Networking Design exam?
The exam is delivered by Pearson VUE and is available both online proctored and at test centers, giving candidates flexibility in how they take the exam.
Are there any hands-on or lab-based components in the Dell Networking Design exam?
The exam is primarily multiple-choice, focusing on design principles and solution evaluation. There is no hands-on lab component mentioned in the official exam description.
What job roles does the Dell Networking Design certification align with?
This certification is designed for network architects, network engineers, and solutions designers who are responsible for planning and designing network infrastructures, particularly those using Dell Technologies networking products.
Can I recertify by passing a different Dell exam?
Dell Technologies certifications must be renewed periodically. While specific recertification options for this certification are not detailed in the provided source, Dell typically offers multiple pathways to maintain credentials, including passing higher-level exams.
Information freshness · Content last reviewed on 2026-07-30 Up to date
Practice free questions 409 questions, free, no account needed.
The curriculum
The whole exam, mapped and written
Every domain, every objective, and every concept Dell Technologies measures — each one written out.
6domains
20objectives
83concepts
91free pages
The domains, and what sits inside them
Every objective below is a page you can open and practise now, without an account.
The official Dell Technologies exam outline · checked 30 July 2026 · See the source
1Concepts86 questions
2Scoping75 questions
3Planning112 questions
4Documentation78 questions
5Scripting Tools36 questions
Not a table of contents
Every line on this map already opens
In front of every objective the practice pages are already there, free and without an account. This is one objective, opened.
Understand the networking design role.6 pagesOpen →
Free in front of it
27 questions on this objective, five to a page. Every range above is a real page, open now, with no account.
Reading the map is not the same as knowing the ground
The curriculum tells you what is on the exam. Proving you know it is a different job — and it is the one the closed-book run does.
Free questions
409 questions. No account, no card.
The whole bank is open. 5 questions to a page, every answer explained, and a discussion thread on each one.
409questions
91pages
20objectives
Freealways
Browse by domain
Every objective, and every page range, is a link — so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
1Concepts86 questions
2Scoping75 questions
3Planning112 questions
4Documentation78 questions
5Scripting Tools36 questions
What a practice page gives you
1Five to a page
Short enough to finish, long enough to matter.
2Every answer explained
Not only which one is right — why the others are wrong.
3A discussion on each
Ask, answer, and vote. Every question has its own thread.
A question, and the idea behind it
Every question comes from a concept
These are not trivia. Each one is written against a concept in the book, so when you get one wrong there is somewhere to go and find out why.
The visual book
See it once. Carry it into the exam.
The pages shown here come from our AI-900 book — an example of how each concept is written in plain language and, where the idea needs one, drawn as a full page you can take in at a glance.
83concepts
409free questions
Why a picture, and not another paragraph
Three reasons, and each one is a real finding rather than a slogan.
You can see it againThe whole idea at onceWhere it starts, what happens in the middle, what comes out, and the mistake to avoid.
Multimedia principle · MayerThe look-alikes sit togetherThe pairs the exam tests are drawn side by side, so the difference is seen, not told.
Dual coding · PaivioWhat one page is made of
You are never asked to read a poster here — only to see how one is built. After that, every other page is legible at a glance.
1A numbered strip on top
The idea as a sequence, followed with a finger before a word is read.
2Panels for the parts
What it is, how the machine learns it, when it is the right tool.
3The trap, framed
The distinction the exam tests, given its own box instead of buried in prose.
4One line at the bottom
The sentence to carry into the exam room.
Open book, on purpose
Answer it with the picture beside you
This is the part that teaches. The illustration and the written explanation stay where they are while you work, so a scenario stops being a memory test and becomes something you can simply look at.
It teaches · it does not count
A smartphone uses AI to unlock when the owner looks at the camera. Which AI capability is being used?
AImage classification
BFacial recognition
COptical character recognition
DObject detection
Look at the five steps. Detect finds a face, align straightens it, encode turns it into numbers, search compares it with a stored face, and decide answers one question: is this the same person? Classification would only say “a face”. Detection would only draw a box. Neither decides whose.
Then the page shuts, and it starts counting
The same questions come back with the book closed — that run is the one that counts. After it, your coach picks one thing for tonight, sized to the time you have, and brings pages back before you lose them.
Testing effect · Roediger & Karpicke 2006 · spacing effect · Cepeda et al. 2006
Official resources
Straight from Dell Technologies
Where the exam is defined, scheduled and scored.
1official link
83concepts mapped
The source
Dell Technologies’s own pages
We link to them rather than repeat them, so nothing here goes stale behind them.
Checked against the source
Every objective on the official Dell Technologies outline already has questions here
We build from the official skills outline, not from a summary of it — 20 objectives, 83 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When Dell Technologies changes the outline, this page changes with it.
20objectives on the outline→83concepts written→409free questions
An official page tells you what will be asked. It cannot tell you what you will get right.
That is the only question worth answering the night before, and no link answers it. You answer it by taking the questions with the book closed, and seeing what comes back.