Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA)

The Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA) certification will prove to employers and clients your knowledge of network design concepts and principles. The CCDA course is suitable for network engineers, network system analysts, and maintenance personnel responsible for designing small to medium-sized and enterprise networks. It is the course you need if you are seeking Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA) certification or looking ahead towards Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP) certification.

Course Overview
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The Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA) course will provide you with the knowledge to discuss, design, and create switched and routed network infrastructures. The CCDA curriculum will provide you with the knowledge to design LAN, WAN, and broadband network access, including the basics to incorporate security, voice, and wireless network components.

It's a first level general IT certification, which can lead on to further Cisco certification, at Professional and then Expert levels, and which indicates a foundation knowledge of network design for the Cisco converged network.

Entry Requirements

The knowledge and skills contained in the Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices (ICND) and Cisco Certified Network Associates (CCNA) Basics learning paths; a good foundation in the principles and concepts of networks and computers; familiarity with internetworking technologies.Candidates should have CCNA and Building Cisco Multi-layer Switched Networks (BCMSN) level knowledge in order to obtain the CCDA certification.

Minimum System Requirements

Hardware Requirements

Minimum Pentium® 1 GHz
Minimum G3 machine for Macintosh®
Minimum 128 MB RAM
Minimum 256 MB RAM for Macintosh®
1024 x 768 screen resolution is recommended
56K or high-speed Internet

Operating Systems

Microsoft® Windows® operating system (32-bit and 64-bit) (not Windows NT)
Windows 7 using Internet Explorer 8
openSUSE® (SUSE® Linux) - 9.2-9.3, 10.0-10.3, 11.0-11.1
Macintosh OS® X™ - 10.4, 10.5
Macintosh OS® X™ 10.6
Third-Party Software and Minimum Requirements for Plug-Ins
Flash® 6.0 - 10
Adobe® Reader® 7.0 and greater
JRE Support
Sun JRE™ with installed JVM™
1.4.2 and all updates
5.0 (1.5.0) and all updates
6.0 (1.6.0) and all updates except u10
Internet connection required

What will I gain?

Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA)

Assessment

You will need to take and pass the following exams:

640-864 Designing for CISCO Internetwork Solutions

Please note that examination fees are additional to course fees.

What will I get?

Full online content via a learning portal
Access to a virtual bookshelf containing all the textbooks you might need during your studies
Access to all components of the courses from any PC with internet connection
Test-Preps. These consist of test questions at a level of difficulty similar to that of your qualifying exams.
They come with an test-mode option, which limits the time available to complete it, or in a study mode, which makes detailed feedback available to explain the right and wrong answers for every question
SkillSoft's mentors are available online 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year for the most popular certification exams to provide support, guidance and encouragement.
Other courses have mentors available online Monday to Friday, 2pm-10pm GMT
The support period is 12 months from the date of enrolment.