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Author Interview:

Anthony Bruno, CCIE

Coauthor of CCDA Exam Certification Guide (Cisco Press, 2/2000)

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The Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA) designation is the first step on Cisco's design track. Earning the CCDA requires passing a single exam that tests your network design skills. CCIE Anthony Bruno, who also holds five more IT certifications, knows the material covered by this exam inside and out - and he's compiled that expertise into a new book geared to help CCDA candidates prepare for and ace the CCDA exam. Here's what Bruno has to say about earning your CCDA:


GoCertify: How is the CCDA different than the CCNA? Is there overlap?

Anthony Bruno: The CCDA is the entry-level certification for the Design track in Cisco certifications. The certification indicates a foundation knowledge for network design for small to medium networks. The CCNA certification is more focused on the operation and maintenance of networks, the CCDA is more focused on the design. There is some overlap of the basic network technologies that are used and are required knowledge in all certifications.

GoCertify: Who might benefit from earning a CCDA designation?

Anthony Bruno: Network Analysts, Network Engineers, Design Architects that do not have a certification in network design. Network Operations engineers that want to move into design.

GoCertify: What technologies are specifically tested on the exam?

Anthony Bruno:

  • Identifying customer technical and business requirements
  • Hierarchical models of network design, redundancy, security firewalls
  • OSI model, TCP/IP protocols, IP addressing, data link addresses
  • Flow control, error checking, CRC, ARP
  • LAN protocols: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, token ring
  • Bridging, switching
  • WAN protocols: Frame Relay, HDLC
  • Access lists, conpression, queuing techniques
  • Routing protocols: RIP, IGRP, OSPF, EIGRP, AURP, static routing
  • Prototyping a network
  • Network Management

GoCertify: In your opinion, what is the most difficult topic or subject that is covered?

Anthony Bruno: One of the most difficult subject is WAN design. There are a lot of constraints that go into a WAN design. Decisions on what technology to use, how much bandwidth is required, how much redundancy will be used, and the cost tradeoffs have to be made. The CCDA needs to be prepared to make those decisions.

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