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Updated training is now available to help network professionals prepare for the Designing for Cisco Internetwork Solutions exam (640-863 DESGN), which is a requirement for Cisco® CCDA® certification. The new curriculum incorporates current products, technologies, services, and solutions, and provides a foundation for students to gain the knowledge and skills required to design routed and switched network infrastructures and services.

The updated DESGN curriculum emphasizes the converged enterprise network model, which extends the hierarchical model to all modules in the enterprise to facilitate preparing, planning, designing, implementing, operating, and optimizing (PPDIOO) networks. The curriculum presents services virtualization based on the Cisco Service-Oriented Network Architecture (SONA), shifting the vision of the network from a pure traffic transport-oriented view to a service and application-oriented view. Concepts are reinforced with extensive case studies.

The recommended course prerequisite is CCNA® level knowledge, with additional recommended knowledge as taught in the Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks (BCMSN) course.

The following table reflects the new DESGN curriculum comprised in the Cisco® CCDA® certification program.
CCDA
Prerequisite: CCNA level-knowledge and BCMSN-level knowledge
Status
New

Recommended Training
Designing for Cisco Internetwork Solutions (DESGN) v2.0

Required Exam
640-863 DESGN