Designer Certification
Designer Job Description:
The CEDIA Certified Professional Designer certification is for an individual who communicates with clients and design and installation professionals. Also, a certified designer selects the appropriate products and materials to design individual (integrated) residential systems (including alarm, telephone, cable television, satellite television, data, audio, video, home theatre, HVAC, and lighting control). This person has at least five years of related field experience prior to taking the examination. Major content areas covered by the examination are as follows:
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Designer Exam Content:
Major content areas covered by the examination are as follows:
- Needs analysis (project evaluation, installation criteria, budgets, contractor management, client relationships)
- Design documentation (generating equipment detail, generating facilities plans, creating wire schedules, block diagrams, schematics, drawings)
- Project design (understanding needs analysis, using contractors, developing programming, overseeing projects)
- Design management (orders, technology, prototypes, mockups, communication, validating system performance)
Reviewing for the Exam:
After you have completed the Designer Pre-test Assessment and identified your areas of strength and weakness, use the Job Task Analysis (JTA) to determine CEDIA University courses that address your areas of weakness.
Designer Job Task Analysis (JTA)
Recommended materials for self-study.
Register now to take this exam online at a proctored testing facility.
Requirements for Maintaining Your Designer Credential:
The Designer credential is awarded for a 36 month period. To maintain the active status as a Designer prior to the conclusion of the 36 month cycle, certificants must be able to provide documentation of completion of at least 30 contact clock hours of continuing education units (CEUs) approved by the Certification Action Team.
Certificants who do not have the required CEUs must take and pass the exam within 12 months prior to the expiration date to be eligible to maintain their certification for an additional 36 months.
Guidelines for Communicating Your Status:
An individual who passes the Designer exam will attain the status of “CEDIA Certified Professional, Designer.” If desired, the individual may use the abbreviated version of “Individual’s Name, CCP Designer on his or her business cards, letterhead or other documentation.
Professional Certification is granted to an individual; therefore, he or she, not the company, retains the credential as long as he or she maintains the CEU required for CCP Designer. In marketing materials and other documentation, companies are allowed to identify that they have CEDIA Certified Professionals on staff; however, materials should not indicate that the company is “CEDIA Certified.”
CEDIA Electronic Systems Technical Reference Manual
The first edition of the Electronic Systems Technical Reference Manual provides a comprehensive resource for anyone who installs, designs, or has an interest in residential electronic systems. It was created to fill the necessity for a reference book that serves the continuing education needs of our industry.
The Electronic Systems Technical Reference Manual consolidates the information that has found to be most applicable to residential technicians and designers.
Chapters are presented by discipline; concepts within each chapter progress from the simple to the most complex.
Key terms are provided to further define concepts and review questions allow the reader to gauge comprehension.
The outlines of exam content (the Job Task Analyses) from both the CEDIA EST III (Advanced EST) and Designer certifications, sample exam questions, and a summary of the certification development process are all included in the appendix of the book.
View the table of contents of the Electronic Systems Technical Reference Manual.
Price: $89 for CEDIA Members / $147 for non-members
To order your copy of the CEDIA Electronic Systems Technical Reference Manual, please visit the CEDIA Marketplace and click on CEDIA Publications.
