Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE) Training and Certification
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Self-paced video
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. Includes complete LMS access for one year, access across the DevOpsSchool course library, 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools. Where a course family has four levels, all levels are included by default.
Live & Interactive
Instructor-led live session, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, practical review and certificate support.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
- Practical demonstrations and guided examples
- Complete LMS access for one year
- Certificate and learning record support
- Corporate customization available
Practical Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE) learning for professionals and teams.
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What this program covers
This page is structured for learners who need a focused course, certification topic, platform module, product feature, security area or role-specific skill that may not map directly to Foundation, Essential, Intermediate or Advanced levels.
The learning experience still follows DevOpsSchool standards: concept clarity, practical use cases, demonstrations, hands-on tasks, assessment guidance, certification support and post-session LMS access.
Private Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE) training for teams and organizations.
DevOpsSchool can align this program to team maturity, current tools, role expectations, compliance requirements, delivery workflow and implementation goals.
- Private online or classroom batch options
- Role-based coverage for engineers, administrators, leads and managers
- Examples can be mapped to internal platforms and use cases
- Useful for onboarding, migration, governance, certification readiness and adoption
Why DevOpsSchool
DevOpsSchool combines practitioner-led explanation, live demonstrations, assignments, LMS access, certificate support and guidance for both individual professionals and corporate teams.
Request corporate proposalThe same course architecture, adapted to this focused topic.
Specialized pages keep the same decision structure as standard level pages, but the content is adjusted to the course objective.
Concepts
Terminology, purpose, architecture, scope and fit inside modern delivery workflows.
Implementation
Configuration, usage patterns, workflows, operating practices and common mistakes.
Integration
Automation, integration touchpoints, delivery process and production readiness.
Validation
Labs, assignments, review questions, certificate support and next-step learning guidance.
Live, self-paced and corporate delivery options.
Fees are intentionally shown only in the hero and once again after the agenda. This section focuses on delivery fit.
| Mode | Duration / access | Best fit |
|---|---|---|
| Self-paced video | One year LMS access | Learners who want flexible pace and broad catalog access. |
| Live & Interactive | Max 8 to 10 hours | Learners who want demos, guided discussion, labs and Q&A. |
| 1:1 Live training | Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one | Learners who want to start immediately, at their own pace, with the full attention of the trainer. |
| Corporate | Private team batch | Teams needing customized examples, adoption guidance and rollout support. |
Why this course, what you will achieve, and who should attend.
Use these sections to decide whether the program matches your role, current experience and expected responsibilities.
Why this matters
Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE) helps learners build practical confidence in a focused technical, certification or platform topic instead of only reading generic documentation.
Objectives
- Understand the core concepts and usage model.
- Apply practical workflows through examples and guided tasks.
- Prepare for implementation, certification or team adoption needs.
Pre-requisites
Basic computer literacy and awareness of software, operations, cloud, DevOps or security workflows is helpful. Deep programming experience is not mandatory unless the topic specifically requires it.
Who should attend
Developers, DevOps engineers, administrators, SREs, security engineers, platform teams, release teams, technical leads and corporate teams working with this topic.
Small-batch live training and flexible self-paced access.
Choose live guidance when discussion and lab review matter, or use self-paced access when schedule flexibility matters more.
Live cohort
Instructor-led sessions with demos, guided examples and Q&A for practical adoption.
Ask for next batchSelf-paced route
Use LMS access for flexible learning, revision and continued access to DevOpsSchool course materials.
Review access modelFocused agenda for Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE).
Course-specific agenda topics are preserved and organized for the current program objective while staying in the same page architecture.
Core curriculumPart 1
- Layer 2 Control Plane
- Describe fast convergence techniques and mechanisms
- Down detection
- Interface dampening
- Describe loop detection and mitigation protocols
- Spanning tree types
- Spanning tree tuning techniques
- Describe mechanisms that are available for creating loop-free topologies
- REP
- Multipath
- Switch clustering
- Flex links
- Loop detection and mitigation
Core curriculum continued 2Part 2
- Describe the effect of transport mechanisms and their interaction with routing protocols over different types of links
- Describe multicast routing concepts
- Describe the effect of fault isolation and resiliency on network design
- Fault isolation
- Fate sharing
- Redundancy
- Virtualization
- Segmentation
- Layer 3 Control Plane
- Describe route aggregation concepts and techniques
- Purpose of route aggregation
- When to leak routes / avoid suboptimal routing
- Determine aggregation location and techniques
- Describe the theory and application of network topology layering
Core curriculum continued 3Part 3
- Layers and their purposes in various environments
- Describe the theory and application of network topology abstraction
- Purpose of link state topology summarization
- Use of link state topology summarization
- Describe the impact of fault isolation and resiliency on network design or network reliability
- Describe metric-based traffic flow and modification
- Metrics to modify traffic flow
- hird-party next hop
- Protocol timers
- Loop-free alternates
- Describe factors affecting convergence
- Recursion
- Microloops
- Transport
Core curriculum continued 4Part 4
- Describe unicast routing protocol operation (OSPF, EIGRP, ISIS, BGP, and RIP) in relation to network design
- Neighbour relationships
- Loop-free paths
- Flooding domains and stubs
- iBGP scalability
- Analyze operational costs and complexity
- Routing policy
- Redistribution methods
- Describe the interaction between routing protocols and topologies
- Describe generic routing and addressing concepts
- Prometheus
- Policy-based routing
- NAT
- Subnetting
Core curriculum continued 5Part 5
- RIB-FIB relationships
- General multicast concepts
- Source specific
- MSDP / anycast
- PIM
- mVPN
- Describe IPv6 concepts and operation
- General IPv6 concepts
- IPv6 security
- IPv6 transition techniques
- Network Virtualization
- Describe Layer 2 and Layer 3 tunneling technologies
- Tunneling for security
- Tunneling for network extension
Core curriculum continued 6Part 6
- Tunneling for resiliency
- Tunneling for protocol integration
- Tunneling for traffic optimization
- Analyze the implementation of tunnelings
- Tunneling technology selection
- Tunneling endpoint selection
- Tunneling parameter optimization of end-user applications
- Effects of tunneling on routing
- Routing protocol selection and tuning for tunnels
- Design Considerations
- Analyze various QoS performance metrics
- Application requirements
- Performance metrics
- Describe types of QoS techniques
Core curriculum continued 7Part 7
- Classification and marking
- Shaping
- Policing
- Queuing
- Identify QoS strategies based on customer requirements
- DiffServ
- IntServ
- Identify network management requirements
- Identify network application reporting requirements
- Describe technologies, tools, and protocols used for network management
- Describe the reference models and processes used in network management, such as FCAPS, ITIL®, and TOGAF
- Describe best practices for protecting network infrastructure
- Secure administrative access
- Control plane protection
Core curriculum continued 8Part 8
- Describe best practices for protecting network services
- Deep packet inspection
- Data plane protection
- Describe tools and technologies for identity management
- Describe tools and technologies for 802.11 wireless deployment
- Describe tools and technologies for optical deployment
- Describe tools and technologies for SAN fabric deployment
- Evolving Technologies v1.1
- Cloud
- Compare and contrast public, private, hybrid, and multicloud design considerations
- Infrastructure, platform, and software as a service (XaaS)
- Performance, scalability, and high availability
- Security implications, compliance, and policy
- Workload migration
Core curriculum continued 9Part 9
- Describe cloud infrastructure and operations
- Compute virtualization (containers and virtual machines)
- Connectivity (virtual switches, SD-WAN and SD-Access)
- Virtualization functions (NFVi, VNF, and L4/L5)
- Automation and orchestration tools (CloudCenter, DNA-center, and Kubernetes)
- Network programmability (SDN)
- Describe architectural and operational considerations for a programmable network
- Data models and structures (YANG, JSON and XML)
- Device programmability (gRPC, NETCONF and RESTCONF)
- Controller based network design (policy driven configuration and northbound/southbound APIs)
- Configuration management tools (agent and agentless) and version control systems (Git and SVN)
- Internet of things (IoT)
- Describe architectural framework and deployment considerations for IoT
- IoT technology stack (IoT Network Hierarchy, data acquisition and flow)
Core curriculum continued 10Part 10
- IoT standards and protocols (characteristics within IT and OT environment)
- )IoT security (network segmentation, device profiling, and secure remote access)
- IoT edge and fog computing (data aggregation and edge intelligence)
Choose self-paced library access or live interactive delivery.
This is the second and final pricing block on the page, placed after the agenda so learners can review scope before making a decision.
Self-paced video
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. Includes complete LMS access for one year, access across the DevOpsSchool course library, 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools. Where a course family has four levels, all levels are included by default.
Live & Interactive
Instructor-led live session, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, practical review and certificate support.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
- Start immediately: no waiting for the monthly batch.
- One learner, one trainer: full attention on your questions.
- Sessions planned around your working hours.
- Your pace, with examples from your own projects and tools.
Method of training and assessment.
The program emphasizes practical demonstration, guided examples and assignment-based validation instead of passive lecture-only learning.
| SL | Method | Weightage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Problem-space understanding | 10% |
| 2 | Concept discussion | 15% |
| 3 | Live demo and walkthrough | 25% |
| 4 | Lab and hands-on exercises | 40% |
| 5 | Review and readiness discussion | 10% |
Hands-on learning remains part of the program story.
The exact exercises depend on the topic, but every program should make practical execution visible.
Setup walkthrough
Understand access, environment, navigation and first-use expectations.
Core workflow
Practice the central workflow or certification scenario for this topic.
Troubleshooting
Review common issues, validation signals and safe operating practices.
Assessment prep
Use assignments, review prompts and Q&A to confirm readiness.
Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE) is taught in the context of real delivery work.
You learn how the topic connects with engineering, operations, security, cloud, release or platform workflows.
Core foundations
Terminology, concepts, architecture and operating model.
Workflow traceability
Map practical work to tasks, approvals, documentation and delivery visibility.
Automation and integration
Use the topic with validation checks, automation hooks and delivery workflows.
Governance controls
Operate with permissions, approvals, policy checks and production-safe workflows.
How your practical work is assessed.
Your certificate is backed by labs, assignments, review and completion evidence.
Assignments
Assignments verify concepts, configuration, workflow quality and operating discipline.
Hands-on validation
Learners complete practical usage, implementation and troubleshooting exercises.
Completion record
Certificate issuance is tied to participation, practical completion and course coverage.
Completion record and certification support.
Learners receive DevOpsSchool completion support, course participation evidence and guidance aligned to the program objective. Certification-oriented pages also support exam readiness discussion.
Certificate verificationCertificate of Completion
Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE)
Unique credential ID, verifiable online
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Training is grounded in practical DevOps, SRE, cloud, security, release and platform engineering experience.
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Why this DevOpsSchool program is different.
The value is not only one course page. The subscription unlocks the wider learning ecosystem for one year.
| Feature | DevOpsSchool | Typical short course |
|---|---|---|
| Access model | LMS access with 20+ courses and 50+ tools | Usually one course only |
| Live training | Demos, labs, Q&A and practical review | Often lecture-heavy |
| Corporate fit | Can align to roles, workflows and rollout goals | Limited customization |
| Certificate support | Completion record and readiness guidance | Varies by provider |
Questions learners usually ask before joining.
Is this course part of a level path?
Not always. Some courses focus on one topic, exam, product, role or service. They follow a focused agenda instead of Foundation to Advanced levels.
What is included in self-paced access?
One year of complete LMS access, 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools. Course families with multiple levels include available levels by default.
Can corporate teams customize this?
Yes. The program can be aligned to team roles, internal tools, delivery workflows and adoption goals.
How long is live training?
The Live & Interactive option is max 8 to 10 hours with demos, labs, Q&A and practical review.
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