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CCDP Certification Studying Suggestions

These files/documents are recommended studying material that I have found and gathered into a single location. This will be a live document, and updated with any new material found. This is for the 300-320 certification. As always, do your own research as some of this may eventually become out of date, and may be outside of the scope of the CCDP Arch certification and more driven towards CCDE.

Videos
 - Cisco Learning Network - Practical Network Design Fundamentals
 - CBT Nuggets - Even though it says that it is 642-784, the bottom section 3.0 has been updated to reflect the most recent changes

Books
 - Designing for Cisco Network Service Architectures (ARCH) Foundation Learning Guide: CCDP ARCH 300-320 (4th Edition) - This can be purchased from Amazon or Cisco Press
 - CCDE Study Guide - This can be purchased from Amazon/Cisco Press

Supplementary Materials

Campus

 - Enterprise Campus 3.0 Architecture Overview
 - HA Campus Network Design
 - Campus Wired LAN Technology Design Guide
 - Campus Network for HA Design Guide
 - Campus Design Summary
 - HA Campus Recovery Analysis

Data Center

 - VMDC DCI 1.0 Design Guide
 - Cisco OTV Technology Introduction and Deployment Considerations
 - DC Access Layer Design
 - OTV Best Practices Guide
 - DC OTV White Paper
 - DC Design Summary

Internet Edge, WAN and Security

 - IE Design Summary
 - Intelligent WAN & WAN Design Summary
 - MPLS WAN Technology Design Guide
 - IPSec VPN WAN Design Overview
 - Enterprise Security Baseline for LAN, Wireless LAN and WAN

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