Cisco is a worldwide renowned company with a wide range of IT Certifications. DMPS 642-164 (Designing Cisco Unified Meeting Place Solutions) is the required exam to qualify for “Cisco Meeting Place Design Specialist” Certification which is a part of “Specialist Certifications” track. “Cisco Meeting Place Design Specialist” certification will help to boast your professional career.

642-164 exam includes 55 to 65 questions, and the total time duration for this exam is 75 minutes. This exam covers topics, corresponding to designing a inclusive customer Cisco integrated meeting place distribution with different options, conferencing for voice by video and web requirements, IP Telephony setup, also classify and rating the customer submissions.

Following are the important topics to be tested in this exam; however these can be change at any time without any notice.
Gather the information needed to build an MP solution

• Identify typical needs of customer conferencing communities
• Identify typical capacity planning requirements
• Identify the customer’s existing network components that affect MP solution
• Identify the customer’s audio conferencing components that affect a MP preparation
• Identify the customer’s video conferencing components that affect an MP preparation
• Identify the customer’s web conferencing components that affect an MP answer
• Identify the customer’s email/calendaring components that affect an MP solution
• Identify the customer’s directory components that affect an MP answer
• Identify the customer’s integration options that affect an MP solution

Communicate the architectures and benefits of an MP preparation:

• List the components of an MP preparation
• List the features of an MP preparation
• Describe the architecture of an MP preparation
• Describe the interaction of the components of an MP preparation
• List the benefits of an MP preparation

Size an MP answer:

• Size hardware for an MP answer
• Size web network/bandwidth requirements for an MP answer
• Size video network/bandwidth requirements for an MP answer

Choose an MP solution to fit within a particular customer environment:

• Identify the impact of MP integration on the current network components (ports, bandwidth, location, etc.)
• Identify the security ramifications of an MP solution (firewall issues, SSL, CSA, anti-virus, browser popup blockers, plugins, etc.)
• Develop a highly available MP solution based on customer requirements
• Identify the topology to satisfy a particular customer need/environment
• List the hardware/software/UL components needed to satisfy a particular customer need/environment.