Cisco reviewed the Datacenter track from v1 to v6 on Associate and Professional level, a lots of new technologies are part of this new revision. Exciting times!
CCNA Overview
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640-911 DCICN |
OR 200-150 DCICN |
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640-916 DCICT |
OR 200-155 DCICT
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Introducing Cisco Data Center Networking (DCICN)
DCICN Exam Comparison
Outlined here are highlights of some of the key changes that have been made to the exam and training curriculum.
Key Topics Removed:
- Removed product-specific elements, such as Nexus, and instead increased the focus on skills and technologies
- Removed Ethernet low-level functionality and added operational roles of data center devices; for example, use cases to deploy various types of physical devices
- Removed Cisco IOS router topics
- Removed specifications of platform components as in boot process procedures, passwords, and diagnostics
Key Topics Added or Changed:
- Increased breadth of data center networking concepts including First Hop Redundancy Protocols (FHRP), data center networking architectures such as spine-and-leaf designs, unicast and multicast, and authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) concepts and filtering
- Additional focus on high-availability switching concepts, port channel, virtual Port Channel (vPC), and control plane and data plane separation
- Increased data center storage concepts including Fiber Channel operations and design, IP storage protocols, and moved storage topics from DCICT into DCICN
- Added basic understanding of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
Introducing Cisco Data Center Technologies (DCICT)
DCICT Exam Comparison
Outlined here are the key topics that have been removed or added to the exam and training curriculum.
Key Topics Removed or Moved:
- Removed Cisco Data Center Fundamentals topics including SAN have removed
- Removed network design models
- Moved and expanded Storage Networking, including SAN, Fibre Channel, and IP Storage topics into 200-150 DCICN
- Removed Network Services topics such as load balancers, Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) and Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)
Key Topics Added:
- Expand virtualization of compute and network
- Overlay and underlay, control plane and data plane
- Basics of cloud computing
- Automation and orchestration of data center infrastructure including Cisco UCS Director basic functions
- Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) including the architecture of an ACI environment, the policy-driven application deployment model, and the ACI logical model
References:
Cisco Data Center Associate and Professional Level Updated from v1.0 to v6.0 Part 2
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