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CISCO CCNP Datacenter
The data center has come a long way from its hardware-and database-centered roots. Today professionals in data centers need to understand the intersection between their field and automation, cloud, virtualization and software-defined technologies.Are you ready for it?
The CCNP Data Centre's certification and training program offers comprehensive certification and expertise in data center solutions, technologies and best practices for modern data center infrastructure design, implementation and management.
Cisco-trained and certified experts in IT are unique in terms of key roles and technology based expertise in complex data center environments including policy-driven infrastructure, virtualization, automation and orchestration, unified computed technology, data center security, and cloud integration. CCNP Data Center Certified Professionals are highly qualified to serve senior roles in enabling digital business transformation initiatives.
Signellent's expert instructor led course is designed for working as well as upcoming professionals. We are proud in stating that we provide a high success rate to our students by way of highlighting the goals for them, starting day one. Our major course highlights are as below.
- The course is designed according to “CISCO guidelines".
- On a daily basis, the instructors pay personal attention in Monitoring and evaluating the candidates' progress.
- Lab exercises are conducted, daily, for extensive familiarity with the equipment.
- Revisions conducted regularly.
- Instructors who are experienced in CISCO and, from the industry.
- The modules of CCNP are designed to meet the objectives of CCNP.
- The course is specially designed, with an aim to achieve proficiency in technology and, CCNP certification.
- Dedicated Professional to manage, track and evaluate the candidate's performance from registration to completion.
- The course benefits students who aim to build academic knowledge as it contains, in addition, applied lab exercises.
- Intensive training+ rigorous lab exercises.
- To enable students to prepare better, the Course kit contains reference material and add-ons.
- Apt balance of theoretical and practical application
- To ensure better results, there are "Customised tests" at the end of the course.
- Progress reports of each student is made keeping Stern passing standards
- For students who wish to practice remotely, there's Lab-on-cloud facility.
Following Topics will be covered in CCNP Datacenter:
Following Topics will be covered in CCNP Datacenter 300-601-DCCOR Course
Network
- Apply routing protocols
- OSPFv2, OSPFv3
- MP-BGP
- PIM
- FHRP
- Apply switching protocols such as RSTP+, LACP and vPC
- Apply overlay protocols such as VXLAN EVPN and OTV
- Apply ACI concepts
- Fabric setup
- Access policies
- VMM
- Tenant policies
- Analyze packet flow (unicast, multicast, and broadcast)
- Analyze Cloud service and deployment models (NIST 800-145)
- Describe software updates and their impacts
- Disruptive / nondisruptive
- EPLD
- Patches
- Implement network configuration management
- Implement infrastructure monitoring such as NetFlow and SPAN
- Explain network assurance concepts such as streaming telemetry
Compute
- Implement Cisco Unified Compute System Rack Servers
- Implement Cisco Unified Compute System Blade Chassis
- Initial setup
- Infrastructure management
- Network management (VLANs, pools and policies, templates, QoS)
- Storage management (SAN connectivity, Fibre Channel zoning, VSANs, WWN pools, SAN policies, templates)
- Server management (Server pools and boot policies)
- Explain HyperFlex Infrastructure Concepts and benefits (Edge and Hybrid Architecture vs all-flash)
- Describe firmware and software updates and their impacts on B-Series and C-Series servers
- Implement compute configuration management (Backup and restore)
- Implement infrastructure monitoring such as SPAN and Intersight
Storage Network
- Implement Fibre Channel
- Switch fabric initialization
- Port channels
- FCID
- CFS
- Zoning
- FCNS
- Device alias
- NPV and NPIV
- VSAN
- Implement FCoE Unified Fabric (FIP and DCB)
- Describe NFS and NAS concepts
- Describe software updates and their impacts (Disruptive/nondisruptive and EPLD)
- Implement infrastructure monitoring
Automation
- Implement automation and scripting tools
- EEM
- Scheduler
- Bash Shell and Guest Shell for NX-OS
- REST API
- JSON and XML encodings
- Evaluate automation and orchestration technologies
- Ansible
- Puppet
- Python
- POAP
- DCNM
- UCSD
- PowerShell
Security
- Apply network security
- AAA and RBAC
- ACI contracts and micro segmentation
- First-hop security features such as dynamic ARP inspection (DAI), DHCP
- snooping, and port security
- CoPP
- Apply compute security
- AAA and RBAC
- Keychain authentication
- Apply storage security
- AAA and RBAC
- Port security
- Fabric binding
Following Topics will be covered in CCNP Datacenter 300-610-DCID Course
Network Design
- Evaluate options for Layer 2 connectivity
- Endpoint mobility
- Redundancy/high availability
- Convergence
- Services insertion
- Evaluate options for Layer 3 connectivity
- IP mobility
- Redundancy / high availability (graceful restart, NSF)
- Convergence
- Services insertion (load balancing, security)
- Evaluate data center technologies such as vPC/vPC+
- Evaluate options for interconnecting data centers such as VXLAN EVPN and OTV
- Evaluate options for device and routing virtualization
- VDC
- VRF (standard, VXLAN EVPN tenant)
- Evaluate in-band and out-of-band options for management
- Evaluate redundancy options such as active/active and disaster recovery site
Compute Design
- Evaluate options for Ethernet connectivity
- Redundancy / high availability
- Bandwidth (oversubscription)
- Fabric interconnect operation mode (switch mode, end host mode)
- Evaluate options for storage connectivity
- Bandwidth (port-channels, oversubscription)
- Fabric interconnect operation mode (switch mode, end host mode)
- Direct-attached storage (appliance, FC storage, and FCoE ports)
- Evaluate options for network device virtualization in a data center (Cisco VIC adapters)
- Number of interfaces vs. IOM uplinks
- vCon placement policies
- Ethernet adaptor policies
- Fibre Channel adapter policies
- Evaluate options for hyperconverged infrastructure
- Cluster mode
- HX for virtual server
- Desktop virtualization
Storage Network Design
- Plan for iSCSI deployment in a data center (Multipathing and addressing schemes)
- Evaluate QoS requirements in a data center
- Fibre Channel
- FCoE
- FCIP
- iSCSI
- Determine FCoE/ Fibre Channel interface
- Dedicated and shared mode
- Port types
- ISL
- Oversubscription
- Evaluate SAN topology options
Automation Design
- Evaluate options for network orchestration and automation
- DCNM
- Intersight
- NX-API
- Model-driven programmability
- Ansible
- Puppet
- Python
- Evaluate options for compute orchestration and automation
- Service profile templates
- vNIC templates
- vHBA templates
- Global policies vs. local policies
Following Topics will be covered in CCNP Datacenter 300-615-DCIT Course
Network
- Troubleshoot routing protocols
- OSPFv2, OSPFv3
- MP-BGP
- PIM
- FHRP (HSRP, VRRP)
- Troubleshoot switching protocols, such as RSTP+, LACP, and vPC
- Troubleshoot overlay protocols, such as VXLAN EVPN and OTV
- Troubleshoot Application Centric Infrastructure
- Fabric discovery
- Access policies
- VMM domain integration
- Tenant policies
- Packet flow (unicast, multicast, and broadcast)
- External connectivity
Compute Platforms
- Troubleshoot Cisco Unified Computing System rack servers
- Troubleshoot Cisco Unified Computing System blade chassis
- Infrastructure such as chassis, power, IOM
- Network (VLANs, pools and policies, templates, QoS)
- Storage (SAN connectivity, FC zoning, VSANs, pools, policies, templates)
- Server pools and boot policies
- Troubleshoot packet flow from server to the fabric
- Troubleshoot hardware interoperability
- Converged Network Adapters / port expanders
- Firmware
- I/O modules / FEX
- Fabric interconnects
- Troubleshoot firmware upgrades, packages and interoperability
Storage Network
- Troubleshoot Fibre Channel
- Switched fabric initialization
- Fibre Channel buffer credit starvation
- FCID
- Cisco Fabric Services
- Zoning
- Device alias
- NPV and NPIV
- VSAN
- Troubleshoot FCoE Cisco Unified Fabric (FIP, DCB)
Automation
- Troubleshoot automation and scripting tools
- EEM
- Scheduler
- Troubleshoot programmability
- Bash shell and guest shell for NX-OS
- REST API
- JSON and XML encodings
Management and Operations
- Troubleshoot firmware upgrades, packages, and interoperability
- Troubleshoot integration of centralized management
- Troubleshooting network security
- Fabric binding and port security
- AAA and RBAC
- First-hop security such as dynamic ARP, DHCP snooping, and port security
- Troubleshoot CoPP
- Troubleshoot ACI security domains and role mapping
- Troubleshoot data center compute security
- Troubleshoot AAA and RBAC
- Troubleshoot key management
- Troubleshoot storage security
- AAA and RBAC
- Port security
- Fabric binding
Following Topics will be covered in CCNP Datacenter 300-620-DCACI Course
Configuration
- Implement fabric discovery
- Implement access policies
- Implement logical constructs
- Tenant
- Network
- Bridge Domain
- Endpoint Groups (EPG)
- Filters
- Contracts
Integration
- Implement VMM domain integrations
- VMware vCenter to APIC
- AAEP
- vCenter with EPGs
- Virtual machine to an EPG
- Integrate third-party features
Management and Monitoring
- Implement management
- Implement role-based access control (RBAC)
- Security domains and role mapping
- External authentication with RADIUS
- Implement monitoring
Network Resources
- Implement external network integration
- Layer 2 extension
- Layer 3 extension
- Implement packet flow (unicast, multicast, broadcast)
- Describe service insertion and redirection
- Device package
- Service graph
- Describe methods to migrate existing networks to ACI
Interconnections
- Implement multipod (policy, fabric, IPN, external routed networks)
- Implement multisite (controllers, policy, ISN)
- Implement GOLF
Programmability and Orchestration
- Implement ACI programmability solutions (Python, REST API)
- Describe orchestration solutions
- Utilize ACI App Center
Following Topics will be covered in CCNP Datacenter 300-625-DCSAN Course
Deployment
- Describe installation and initial setup
- NX-OS
- DCNM
- POAP
- Describe secure boot
Implementation
- Implement Fibre Channel port channels
- Implement Fibre Channel protocol services
- Name Service
- Cisco Fabric Services (CFS)
- Implement FCoE
- FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP)
- Priority flow control (PFC)
- Enhanced transmission selection (ETS)
- Data Center Bridging Exchange/Link Level Discover Protocol (LLDP)
- Implement VSANs
- Implement NPV and NPIV
- Implement device aliases and zoning
- Configure inter-VSAN routing
- Implement VSAN extensions
Management and Monitoring
- Configure DCNM
- DCNM-SAN client
- Licensing options
- DCNM Device Manager
- Configure RBAC
- Configure Fibre Channel fabric security
- Describe slow-drain analysis
- Implement SAN telemetry streaming
MDS Troubleshooting
- Troubleshoot Fibre Channel domains and duplicate domain ID
- Troubleshoot zoning and zone merge failure
- Troubleshoot boot and upgrade issues
Following Topics will be covered in CCNP Datacenter 300-635-DCAUTO Course
Network Programmability Foundation
- Utilize common version control operations with git: add, clone, push, commit, diff,
- branching, merging conflict
- Describe characteristics of API styles (REST and RPC)
- Describe the challenges encountered and patterns used when consuming APIs
- synchronously and asynchronously
- Interpret Python scripts containing data types, functions, classes, conditions, and
- looping
- Describe the benefits of Python virtual environments
- Explain the benefits of using network configuration tools such as Ansible and Puppet for automating data center platforms
Controller Based Data Center Networking
- Describe the following:
- ACI target policy
- ACI application hosting capabilities
- Implementation of an ACI application from the Cisco ACI Apps Center
- Leverage the API inspector to explore the REST API calls made by the ACI GUI
- Construct a Python script to create an application policy using the ACI REST API
- Construct a Python script to create an application policy using the ACI Cobra SDK
- Construct an Ansible playbook to create an application policy
- Describe the benefits of integrating Kubernetes infrastructure using the ACI CNI plugin
Data Center Device-centric Networking
- Describe Day 0 provisioning with NX-OS
- Cisco POAP
- NX-OS iPXE
- Implement On-Box Programmability and Automation with NX-OS
- Bash
- Linux containers (LXC and Docker using provided container
- NX-OS guest shell
- Embedded Event Manager (EEM)
- On-box Python Scripting
- Compare model-driven telemetry such as YANG Push and gRPC to traditional network monitoring strategies such as SMNP, Netflow, and SYSLOG
- Construct Python script that consumes model-driven telemetry data with NX-OS
- Implement Off-Box Programmability and Automation with NX-OS
- Nexus NX-API (NX-API REST and NX-API CLI)
- Nexus NETCONF using native and OpenConfig
- Network configuration tools with NX-OS (Ansible)
Data Center Compute
- Configure Cisco UCS with developer tools
- UCS PowerTool
- UCS Python SDK
- Ansible
- Describe the capabilities of the DCNM API
- Identify the steps in the Intersight API authentication method
- Construct an Intersight API call given documentation to accomplish tasks such as
- manage server policies, service profiles, and firmware updates
- Describe the process to implement workflows for physical and virtual infrastructure using UCS Director
- Pre-defined tasks
- Custom tasks
- Script libraries
- Utilize UCS Director REST API browser