Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA)

This certification retired on 24^th February 2020. Our closest replacement is CCNA.

This course is designed to give you a foundation knowledge of network design using Cisco's SONA (Service Oriented Network Architecture) methodology. You'll gain information that will assist you in designing routed and switched network infrastructures and services involving LANs and WANs. The course will prepare you for the Cisco CCDA (Cisco Certified Design Associate) exam, which you'll sit on the course.

During the course, you'll learn how to design routed and switched network infrastructures and services involving LAN, WAN, and broadband access for businesses and organisations, including service virtualisation. The Enterprise Composite Model used in the course will make it easier to design, plan, implement, operate and optimise (PDIOO) through modular network design and focus on the relations between modules. You'll also learn about Software-Defined Networking.

Once you have completed the course, you'll be able to enable efficient network environments with an understanding of network design fundamentals. The certification will demonstrate that you have the skills required to design and apply basic and resilient campus, data centre, security, voice, and wireless networks. You'll also be able to:

• Describe and apply network design concepts of modularity and hierarchy
• Create scalable IPv4 and IPv6 addressing
• Design connectivity to the Internet and internal routing for your network
• Identify suitable addressing schemes and routing protocols for use in enterprise networks
• Design routed and switched network infrastructures and services involving LAN, WAN, and broadband access for businesses and organisations.

Reasons for Cisco certification include career advancement, personal improvement, skills enhancement, higher earnings, and increased on-the-job productivity.

Why Cisco Certifications?

• Cisco Certified Professionals are among the highest paid in the world.
• Cisco Certification gives you respect in IT Industry by allowing you to provide great value and service to any organisation you work for.
• Cisco Certification validates an individual's achievement, thereby increasing the holder's professional credibility by ensuring high standards of technical expertise.
• Industry trend shows that with each certification there is an increase in salary of the certificate holders. Additionally, multiple certifications directly correlate to further increases.

Cisco certifications also afford you special membership benefits:

• A certificate of accomplishment.
• A wallet card, logo and designation for your personal promotion to clients or potential employers.
• Access to the secure Cisco on-line tracking system so you can download logos, and track your Cisco certification progress throughout your career.

The following are the topics covered on the CCDA course

Module 1: Design Methodologies

• Design Life Cycle
• Characterising Existing Network
• Top-Down Approach

Module 2: Network Design Objectives

• Building a Modular Network
• Applying Modularity: Hierarchy in a Network
• Applying Modularity: Virtualisation Overview

Module 3: Campus Network Design

• Layer 2/Layer 3 Demarcation
• Layer 2 Design Considerations
• High Availability Considerations
• Layer 3 Design Considerations
• Traffic and Interconnections

Module 4: Enterprise Network Design

• Designing a Secure Network
• Edge Connectivity Design
• WAN Design
• Branch Design
• Connecting to the Data Center

Module 5: Design of Internal Routing and Connecting to the Internet

• Routing Protocol Considerations
• Expanding EIGRP Design
• Expanding OSPF Design
• Introducing IS-IS
• Expanding IS-IS Design
• Using BGP to Connect to the Internet

Module 6: Expanding the Existing Network

• Understanding Quality of Service
• Supporting Wireless Access
• Integrating Collaboration

Module 7: IP Addressing

• Concepts of Good IP Addressing
• Creating an Addressing Plan for IPv4
• IPv6 Addressing
• Supporting IP Addressing

Module 8: Introduction to Software Defined Networks

Labs:

• Challenge 1: Ask the Right Questions
• Challenge 2: Design Branch's LAN
• Challenge 3: Design Branch's Connections to the HQ
• Challenge 4: Design Branch's Routing
• Challenge 5: Design Support for Wireless and Collaboration
• Challenge 6: Design IPv4 Addressing Plan
• Challenge 7: Design IPv6 Addressing Plan

During this accelerated three-day course, you'll sit the following exam:

• 200-310 DESGN exam - Designing for Cisco Internetwork Solutions

Included:

• Designing for Cisco Internetwork Solutions (DESGN) v3.0 student kit

Prior to attempting the DESGN exam, candidates must possess a valid CCENT, or CCNA Routing and Switching or any CCIE certification.