Cisco CCNP Data Center Core (350-601 DCCOR) Online Training

Data center incidents often stem from inconsistent understanding across networking, compute, storage, and Cisco ACI teams. This professional-level CCNP Data Center Core course gives IT Directors a structured path for infrastructure engineers with roughly 3–5 years of Cisco experience to align on the technologies behind modern Cisco data centers and prepare for the 350-601 DCCOR core exam.

The curriculum is broad, covering routing, multicast, spanning tree, vPC, FHRPs, OTV, VXLAN/EVPN, ACI models and packet flow, Nexus updates and monitoring, UCS architecture, Fibre Channel, IP-based storage, and more. Training Managers should treat it as a multi-week enablement plan per learner, not a quick refresher. Team Leads can assign sections by role while keeping shared concepts consistent across network, compute, and storage practitioners.

CBT Nuggets Playlists help sequence the course for team needs, while Team Reporting helps IT leaders track progress toward certification readiness and operational standardization.

IT teams complete this training to build a shared operating model for Cisco data center environments, especially where Nexus, ACI, UCS, overlay networking, and storage networking intersect.

• Stabilize data center connectivity: Engineers review OSPF, BGP, multicast, spanning tree, vPC, FHRPs, OTV, VXLAN, and EVPN concepts used to support resilient data center designs.
• Improve change readiness: Teams review Nexus platform concepts and management considerations that shape how data center changes are planned, coordinated, and validated.
• Support ACI operations: Practitioners study ACI concepts, manageability, components, logical and physical models, the object model, and programmability features to reduce confusion during deployments and troubleshooting.
• Connect compute and storage teams: UCS networking, QoS, service profiles, Fibre Channel, IP-based storage, and storage management topics help teams coordinate across domains instead of escalating every issue to specialists.

Knowledge

• Core Cisco data center concepts across networking, compute, storage, cloud models, and automation-adjacent operations.
• Routing and switching technologies used in data centers, including OSPF, BGP, multicast, STP, vPC, and first-hop redundancy protocols.
• Overlay technologies such as OTV, VXLAN, and EVPN, including where they fit in data center designs.
• Cisco ACI concepts, components, manageability, logical models, physical models, and packet flow behavior.
• UCS architecture, hardware models, networking, QoS, service profiles, Fibre Channel, IP-based storage, and storage management.

Ability

• Explain how Cisco data center technologies work together across Nexus, ACI, UCS, and storage environments.
• Configure and apply selected overlay technologies, including OTV, VXLAN, and EVPN, as covered in the course sequence.
• Analyze packet flow and operational behavior in ACI-based environments.
• Assess the operational impact of NX-OS software updates and use Nexus management and monitoring tools.
• Prepare for the Cisco 350-601 DCCOR exam, the core exam for CCNP Data Center certification.