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Cisco 400-007 Exam Overview :

Exam Name: Cisco Certified Design Expert CCDE v3.0
Exam Code: 400-007
Certifications: Cisco CCDE Certification
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Cisco 400-007 Exam Objectives :

Section Weight Objectives
1.0 Business Strategy Design 15%
  1.  Impact on network design, implementation, and optimization using various customer project management methodologies (for instance waterfall and agile)
  2.  Solutions based on business continuity and operational sustainability (for instance RPO, ROI, CAPEX/OPEX cost analysis, and risk/reward)
2.0 Control, data, management plane and operational design 25%
  1.  End-to-end IP traffic flow in a feature-rich network
  2.  Data, control, and management plane technologies
  3.  Centralized, decentralized, or hybrid control plane
  4.  Automation/orchestration design, integration, and on-going support for networks (for instance interfacing with APIs, model-driven management, controller-based technologies, evolution to CI/CD framework)
  5.  Software-defined architecture and controller-based solution design (SD-WAN, overlay, underlay, and fabric)
3.0 Network Design 30% 1 Resilient, scalable, and secure modular networks, covering both traditional and software-defined architectures, considering:
  1.  Technical constraints and requirements
  2.  Operational constraints and requirements
  3.  Application behavior and needs
  4.  Business requirements
  5.  Implementation plans
  6.  Migration and transformation
4.0 Service Design 15% 1 Resilient, scalable, and secure modular network design based on constraints (for instance technical, operational, application, and business constraints) to support applications on the IP network (for instance voice, video, backups, data center replication, IoT, and storage)

2 Cloud/hybrid solutions based on business-critical operations
  1.  Regulatory compliance
  2.  Data governance (for instance sovereignty, ownership, and locale)
  3.  Service placement
  4.  SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS
  5.  Cloud connectivity (for instance direct connect, cloud on ramp, MPLS direct connect, and WAN integration)
  6.  Security
5.0 Security Design 15% 5.1 Network security design and integration
  1.  Segmentation
  2.  Network access control
  3.  Visibility
  4.  Policy enforcement
  5.  CIA triad
  6.  Regulatory compliance (if provided the regulation)
Official Information https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/training-events/training-certifications/exams/current-list/400-007-ccde.html

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