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 ID Exam Topic
1 Data Center L2/L3 Connectivity
1.1 Layer 2 technologies
1.1.a Link Aggregation
1.1.a i vPC
1.1.a ii PortChannel
1.1.b Tagging/Trunking
1.1.c Static Path Binding
1.1.d Spanning Tree Protocol
1.1.d i PVST
1.1.d ii MST
1.2 Routing Protocols and features
1.2.a OSPF (v2 and v3)
1.2.a i Authentication
1.2.a ii Adjacencies
1.2.a iii Network Types and Area Types
1.2.a iv LSA Types
1.2.a v Route Aggregation/Summarization
1.2.a vi Route Redistribution
1.2.b ISIS
1.2.b i Adjacencies
1.2.b.i 1 Single area, single topology
1.2.b ii Network Types, Levels and Router types
1.2.b.ii.1 NSAP addressing
1.2.b.ii.2 Point-to-point, broadcast
1.2.c BGP
1.2.c i Path Selection
1.2.c ii External and Internal Peering
1.2.c iii Route reflectors and Route Server
1.2.c iv Peer Templates
1.2.c v Multi-Hop EBGP
1.2.c vi Route Aggregation/Summarization
1.2.c vii Route Redistribution
1.2.d BFD
1.2.e FHRP
1.3 Multicast protocols
1.3.a PIM
1.3.a i Sparse Mode
1.3.a ii BiDir
1.3.a iii Static RP,BSR,AutoRP, Phantom RP
1.3.a iv IPv4 PIM Anycast
1.3.a v IPv4 Anycast RP using MSDP
1.3.b IGMP
1.3.b i IGMPv2,IGMPv3
1.3.b ii IGMP Snooping
1.3.b iii IGMP Qurier
2 Data Center Fabric Infrastructure
2.1 Physical fabric components
2.1.a Fabric discovery
2.1.b Controllers/network managers
2.1.c Switches
2.2 Fabric policies
2.2.a Access policies
2.2.b Multitenancy
2.2.d Monitoring policies
2.3 Tenant policies
2.3.a Application profiles and EPGs
2.3.b Networking
2.3.c Security
2.4 Fabric Monitoring
2.4.a Faults
2.4.b Events
2.4.c Health indicators
2.4.d Audit Logs
2.5 Virtual networking
2.5.a vSphere VDS
3 Data Center Fabric Connectivity
3.1 VRF lite
3.2 L3Out
3.2.a OSPF
3.2.a i Authentication
3.2.a ii Adjacencies
3.2.a iii Network Types and Area Types
3.2.a vi Route Redistribution
3.2.b BGP
3.2.b i AS manipulation
3.2.b ii External and Internal Peering
3.2.b iii Route reflectors
3.2.b vii Route Redistribution
3.2.c Transit Routing
3.3 Inter Fabric Connectivity
3.3.a Multi-Pod
3.3.b Multi-site
3.3.c Virtual Pod
3.3.d Remote Leaf
3.4 Overlays
3.4.a VXLAN EVPN
4 Data Center Compute
4.1 Compute Resources
4.1.a UCSM Policie,Profiles and Templates
4.1.b Hyperflex
4.2 Compute Connectivity
4.2.a SAN/LAN uplinks
4.2.b Rack server integration
4.2.c Port Modes
5 Data Center Storage Protocols and Features
5.1 FC and FCoE
5.1.a Zoning
5.1.b NPV/NPIV
5.1.c Trunking
5.1.d Portchannel
5.1.e Load Balancing
5.2 iSCSI
5.2.a Authentication
5.2.b Multipathing
5.3 RoCE v2 over IP Networks
6 Data Center Security and Network Services
6.1 Security Features
6.1.a ACL's
6.1.b First Hop Security
6.1.c Port security
6.1.d Private VLANs
6.1.e Contracts
6.2 RBAC
6.2.a Radius
6.2.b TACACS+
6.2.c LDAP
6.2.d AAA
6.3 Network Services Insertion and Redirection
6.3.a Policy Based Routing
6.3.b Policy Based Redirection
6.3.c Inter VRF communication
6.3.d Route Targets
6.3.e Prefix Lists
6.4 Services
6.4.a Flow/Telemetry Export
6.4.b SPAN
6.4.c SNMP
6.4.d Syslog
6.4.e DHCP
6.4.f NTP/PTP
6.5 Traffic Management
6.5.a Queueing
6.5.b Policing
6.5.c Classification/Marking
6.5.d Scheduling
6.5.e CoPP
7 Data Center Automation and Orchestration
7.1 Data center tasks using scripts (Python and Ansible)
7.1.a Create, Read, Update, Delete using RESTful APIs
7.1.b Deploy and modify configurations
7.1.c Statistics, Data Collection
7.2 Data Center Automation and Orchestration using tools
7.2.a DCNM
7.2.b UCSD
7.2.b i Tasks
7.2.b ii Workflows
7.2.b iii Catalog
7.2.c Intersight
7.2.d CloudCenter Suite
7.2.d i Applications
7.2.d ii Deployments
7.2.d iii Action Orchest
Online References

Configuring vPCs
Configuring PortChannel
Configuring Tagging/Trunking
Configuring Stagging Binding Path

Configuring PVST
Configuring MST

Configuring OSPF v2 and v3

Configuring Authentication
Configuring Adjacencies
Configuring Areas
LSA Types
Configuring Route Summarization
Cofiguring Route Redistribution
Configuring IS-IS
Configuring IS-IS adjacencies
IS-IS Area
IS-IS Levels
Configuring Net
Configuring IS-IS on Interface
Configuring BGP
Configuring Path Selection
Configuring Peering
Configuring Route Reflectors
Configuring BGP Peer Templates
Configuring EBGP
Configuring Route Aggregation
Configuring Route Redistribution
Unicast Routing Configuration Guide
Unicast Routing Configuration Guide

Multicast Routing Configuration Guide

Configuring Sparse Mode
Bidir
Rendezvous Points
Anycast RP
Configuring MSDP
Multicast Routing Configuration Guide
Multicast Routing Configuration Guide
Multicast Routing Configuration Guide

Cisco APIC Getting Started Guide

Cisco ACI Cluster Management
Cisco APIC Getting Started Guide

Fabric Connectivity
ACI Network Centric Approach
Monitoring Policies

Operating Cisco ACI

Operating Cisco ACI
Operating Cisco ACI

Operating Cisco ACI

APIC Faults, Events and System Messages Management Guide
Operating Cisco ACI
APIC Faults, Events and System Messages Management Guide

Cisco ACI Virtualization Guide

Configuring VRF lite

Cisco ACI Design Guide White Paper
External Connectivity for tenants
Layer 3 outside Network Connection
Layer 3 outside Network Connection
Layer 3 outside Network Connection
Layer 3 outside Network Connection

Layer 3 outside Network Connection

Layer 3 outside Network Connection
MP-BGP Route Reflectors
Layer 3 outside Network Connection
Cisco APIC Layer 3 Networking Configuration Guide

Cisco APIC Layer 3 Networking Configuration Guide

Cisco ACI Multi-Site Fundamentals Guide
Cisco ACI vPOD
Cisco APIC Layer 3 Networking Configuration Guide
Configuring VXLAN EVPN

Configuring UCSM
Cisco Hyperflex

UCS Manager Network Management Guide

Server Integration with Cisco UCS Manager
UCS Manager Network Management Guide

Configuring Zoning
N Port Virtualization
Configuring Trunking
Configuring SAN Portchannels
Understanding Load Balancing

iSCSI overview
iSCSI overview
RoCE v2 white paper

Security Configuration Guide

Security Configuration Guide
Security Configuration Guide
Layer 2 Switching Configuration Guide
Working with Contracts

Security Configuration Guide

Security Configuration Guide
Security Configuration Guide
Security Configuration Guide

Unicast Configuration Guide

Configuring Policy Based Redirect
Inter VRF Leak
Unicast Configuration Guide
Unicast Configuration Guide

System Management Configuration Guide

System Management Configuration Guide
System Management Configuration Guide
System Management Configuration Guide
Security Configuration Guide
System Management Configuration Guide

Quality of Service Configuration Guide

Quality of Service Configuration Guide
Quality of Service Configuration Guide
Quality of Service Configuration Guide
Security Configuration Guide

Cisco Automation using RestAPI

Network Programmability and Automation
Cisco Automation using RestAPI

DCNM Configuration Guide

Cisco UCS Director
Tasks
Creating Workflows
Catalogs
Cisco Intersight
Cisco Cloud Center
Cisco Cloud Center
Cisco Cloud Center
Cisco Cloud Center
 Books

Data Center Fundamentals (ISBN-10: 1-58705-023-4)

NX-OS and Cisco Nexus Switching (ISBN-10: 1-58705-892-8)

Data Center Fundamentals (ISBN-10: 1-58705-023-4)

Troubleshooting Cisco Nexus Switches and NX-OS

Troubleshooting Cisco Nexus Switches and NX-OS

Troubleshooting Cisco Nexus Switches and NX-OS

Policy Driven Data Center with ACI, The: Architecture, Concepts, and Methodology
Troubleshooting Cisco Nexus Switches and NX-OS

Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) (ISBN-10: 1-58714-193-0)

I/O Consolidation in the Data Center (ISBN-10: 1-58705-888-X)

I/O Consolidation in the Data Center (ISBN-10: 1-58705-888-X)
I/O Consolidation in the Data Center (ISBN-10: 1-58705-888-X)
I/O Consolidation in the Data Center (ISBN-10: 1-58705-888-X)
I/O Consolidation in the Data Center (ISBN-10: 1-58705-888-X)

I/O Consolidation in the Data Center (ISBN-10: 1-58705-888-X)

I/O Consolidation in the Data Center (ISBN-10: 1-58705-888-X)

Policy Driven Data Center with ACI, The: Architecture, Concepts, and Methodology
Cisco Live
BRKACI-2004

BRKACI-2820

BRKACI-2102

BRKACI-2003
BRKDCN-2035,BRKACI-2125
BRKDCN Sessions

BRKCCIE-3351
BRKCCIE-3351