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CCNP Data Center Certification Prep: Automation and Orchestration

This Cisco Data Center Automation, Orchestration, and Scripting training covers how to automate your Cisco data center processes with special tools specially made to enable orchestration as well as hand-written scripts.

Updated July 2022

5Skills
33Videos
5h 15mTotal
33 videos5h 15m

Who This Course Is For

This Cisco Data Center Automation, Orchestration, and Scripting training is considered associate-level Cisco training, which means it was designed for data center administrators with three to five years of experience with data center automation tools.

Skills Your Team Will Gain

  • Managing and monitoring with Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI)
  • Controlling software define networking (SDN) in the data center and on the cloud
  • Automating device updates and monitoring with Cisco NX-OS
  • Leveraging Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) to automate data center compute

Course Curriculum

  • Premium skill.Configuration Management1h 3m
  • Premium skill.Intro to Linux55m
  • Premium skill.Manage Linux and Containers1h 6m
  • Premium skill.Using Shells and Containers56m
  • Premium skill.NX-API and Scripting1h 15m

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  • Questions generated from this course's own lesson transcripts — what gets measured is exactly what gets taught
  • Instant, per-learner results that show whether the prerequisite foundation is in place
  • Results roll up into team readiness reporting, so training hours go where they change outcomes

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