Nortel:  Design Expert (NCDE)

Nortel is one of the largest communication services providers in the world. With Nortel’s Professional Certification program, employers and candidates alike recognize that a Nortel Professional Certification means expertise and is an employment differentiator.

Certification Goal:
This designation certifies that the successful candidate can apply an intermediate to advanced level of technical proficiency required to plan, design and/or engineer a solution using multiple Nortel Networks products. It builds upon the specialist level competencies and focuses on advanced solution engineering and may involve multiple products and internetworking functionalities.

Why Get Certified?
When you earn Nortel professional certification, you also:
• Validate your competency with complex Nortel products and solutions.
• Improve customer satisfaction, customer loyalty, productivity, and earnings with your ability to assess and implement mission-critical business solutions.
• Enable your company to gain access to restricted products through Product Accreditation
• Distinguish yourself by using the Nortel Certified brandmark as one of your credentials.
Certified IT professionals, who can cost-effectively deliver converged voice and data platforms, contribute to smoother deployments and save their companies significant IT costs and deployment time. Earning certification validates your skills, knowledge and mastery of technical products. In addition, certified professionals typically deliver higher levels of service and technical expertise than non-certified individuals. Because of this, certified individuals typically earn higher salaries, according to the 2006 Annual Certification Salary Survey conducted by Certification Magazine. For example, professionals holding certification in network design can earn an average annual salary of $89,770, the second highest in the industry.

Many of those who have earned Nortel certifications have done so through self-study, mainly because of the cuts in IT training budgets in recent years.  With that in mind, TestKing has developed high quality and affordable study materials that will help you pass your certification exams quickly and easily, the first time.