DEVNET Associate (200-901 DEVASC) Online Training

Manual network changes create operational risk: inconsistent configurations, slow response times, and limited repeatability across Cisco environments. IT Directors can assign this associate-level training to network engineers, DevOps professionals, and newer IT Practitioners with routing and switching experience who need a structured path into network automation and the Cisco DevNet Associate exam domain.

Plan for staged learning rather than a single sitting: lessons range from short 4-minute introductions to deeper 45–75 minute sessions on development environments, Git, data formats, APIs, and Cisco platform automation. Team Leads should expect change-management work around coding standards, Git collaboration, API credential handling, and deciding which workflows are safe to automate first. CBT Nuggets Playlists can sequence the path by role or platform focus, and Team Reporting helps Training Managers track assignment progress across the team.

This training helps infrastructure teams move from one-off device changes to repeatable, API-driven workflows across Cisco environments. The course scenarios map to practical automation work that reduces manual effort and supports more consistent operations.

• Standardize team workflows with VS Code setup, basic programming control flow, Git collaboration, and common data formats like XML, JSON, and YAML.
• Build automation against Cisco IOS-XE using NETCONF and RESTCONF, including the data model and YANG foundations needed for structured changes.
• Extend automation into operational platforms such as Nexus with NX-API, Meraki with the Python SDK, ACI with toolkits, DNA Center with SDKs, and SD-WAN workloads.
• Support cross-domain operations by automating Cisco collaboration, security, compute, and broader platform tasks with tools such as Python, PowerShell, NSO, and Docker basics.

Knowledge

• How software development practices apply to IT operations and network automation.
• Core programming concepts, including control flow and when design patterns may be useful.
• How Git supports version control and team collaboration for automation work.
• How XML, JSON, and YAML map into Python structures used in scripts.
• REST API fundamentals, including requests, responses, parameters, payloads, and authentication.
• Cisco programmability concepts across IOS-XE, Nexus, Meraki, ACI, DNA Center, SD-WAN, security, collaboration, UCS, and NSO.

Ability

• Prepare a development environment for Cisco DevNet-style automation work.
• Use Postman to interact with REST APIs during testing and exploration.
• Write scripts that work with NETCONF, RESTCONF, NX-API, and selected Cisco SDKs or toolkits.
• Automate common workflows across campus, data center, WAN, collaboration, security, and compute platforms.
• Apply structured data models and YANG concepts when working with programmable network devices.
• Use Docker basics and deployment-model concepts to understand how applications and automation tools are packaged and run.