The VMware Certified Design Engineer certification will be available later this year. The certification involved taking several courses and exams, including:

  • Courses
    Install and Configure
    DSA
    Design course (currently under development)
  • Exam
    VCP on VI3
    Enterprise Exam (currently in private beta)
    Design Exam (currently under development)

Once all of this has been completed the candidate must present a defensible design to a panel of VMware Solution Architects for consideration. As you may guess, this is a certification specifically targeted for VMware partners that will be assisting VMware in design and deployment and is only intended for a relatively small audience. That being said, the Enterprise Exam, which has a number of live lab style questions, should be available to the public in the next few months and may become part of a mid-line certification between VCP on VI3 and VCDX. That is also under consideration.