Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE) Written : 400-007

Registering for the Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE) Written exam costs $450 USD, and you need Variable (approx. 750-850 / 1000) to pass. One detail worth remembering: a failed attempt is not discounted — retaking the exam means paying $450 USD again in full. Use the TorrentVCE test engine to benchmark yourself first; when your mock results consistently clear Variable (approx. 750-850 / 1000), you are ready to book.

The 400-007 exam is Cisco's official test for the CCDE v3.0 credential, a certification at the Expert level. Earning it tells employers your skills have been verified by the vendor itself, which carries real weight in hiring and promotion decisions. Within the same certification track, it sits alongside CCDE, Cisco Certified Specialist - Design Core, so it can also serve as a stepping stone toward those credentials.

Cisco divides the Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE) Written exam into 5 domains. The largest ones are Security Design at 15%, Control, Data, Management Plane and Operational Design at 25%, Business Strategy Design at 15% — together these account for the bulk of your score, so start there. The complete domain-by-domain outline appears in the exam topics section above on this page.

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You will face 90-110 questions in 120 minutes on the Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE) Written exam. Do the math and the per-question budget is tight, which is why pacing drills matter as much as content review. Our advice: take two or three full timed mocks in the TorrentVCE engine before the real thing, and practice skipping a stubborn question instead of burning five minutes on it.

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None Eligibility rules are set by Cisco and do change from time to time, so double-check the latest requirements on the official exam page at https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/s/ccde-written-exam-topics-400-007 before you register.