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Exam Description: The Cisco CCIE Data Center (v3.0) PracticalExam is an eight-hour, hands-on exam that requires a candidate to plan, design, deploy, operate, and optimize complex Data Center networks. Candidates are expected to program and automate the network within their exam, as per exam topics below.The following topics are general guidelines for the content likely to be included on the exam. Your knowledge, skills and abilities on these topics will be tested throughout the entire network lifecycle, unless explicitly specified otherwise within this document.The exam is closed book and no outside reference materials are allowed.1. Data Center L2/L3 Connectivity (20%)1.1 Layer 2 technologies1.1.a Link Aggregation 1.1.a i vPC 1.1.a ii PortChannel1.1.b Tagging/Trunking1.1.c Static Path binding1.1.d Spanning Tree Protocol1.1.d i PVST1.1.d ii MST1.2 Routing Protocols and features1.2.a OSPF (v2 and v3)1.2.a i Authentication1.2.a ii Adjacencies1.2.a iii Network types and Area Types1.2.a iv LSA Types1.2.a v Route Aggregation/Summarization1.2.a vi Route Redistribution1.2.b ISIS1.2.b i Adjacencies1.2.b.i.1. Single area, single topology1.2.b ii Network types, Levels and Router types1.2.b.ii.1. NSAP addressing1.2.b.ii.2. Point-to-point, broadcast1.2.c BGP1.2.c i Path Selection1.2.c ii External and Internal Peering1.2.c iii Route reflectors and Route Server1.2.c iv Peer Templates 1.2.c v Multi-Hop EBGP1.2.c vi Route Aggregation/Summarization1.2.c vii Route Redistribution1.2.d BFD1.2.e FHRP1.3 Multicast protocols1.3.a PIM1.3.a i Sparse Mode1.3.a ii BiDir1.3.a iii Static RP, BSR, AutoRP, PhantomRP1.3.a iv IPv4 PIM Anycast1.3.a v IPv4 Anycast RP using MSDP1.3.b IGMP1.3.b i IGMPv2, IGMPv31.3.b ii IGMP Snooping1.3.b iii IGMP Querier2. Data Center Fabric Infrastructure (15%)2.1 Physical fabric components2.1.a Fabric Discovery2.1.b Controllers/Network Managers2.1.c Switches2.2 Fabric policies2.2.a Access Policies2.2.b Multi Tenancy2.2.c Monitoring Policies2.3 Tenant Policies2.3.a Application profiles and EPGs2.3.b Networking2.3.c Security2.4 Fabric Monitoring2.4.a Faults2.4.b Events2.4.c Health indicators2.4.d Audit Logs2.5 Virtual Networking2.5.a vSphere VDS3. Data Center Fabric Connectivity (15%)3.1 VRF lite3.2 L3Out 3.2.a OSPF 3.2.a i Authentication3.2.a ii Adjacencies3.2.a iii Network types and Area Types3.2.a iv Route Redistribution3.2.b BGP3.2.b i AS manipulation3.2.b ii External and Internal Peering3.2.b iii Route reflectors3.2.b iv Route Redistribution3.2.c Transit Routing3.3 Inter Fabric connectivity3.3.a Multi-Pod3.3.b Multi-Site3.3.c Virtual POD3.3.d remote Leaf3.4 Overlays3.4.a VXLAN EVPN4. Data Center Compute (15%)4.1 Compute Resources4.1.a UCSM Policies, Profiles and Templates4.1.b Hyperflex4.2 Compute Connectivity4.2.a SAN/LAN uplinks4.2.b Rack server integration4.2.c Port Modes5. Data Center Storage Protocols and Features (10%)5.1 FC and FCoE5.1.a Zoning5.1.b NPV/NPIV5.1.c Trunking5.1.d Portchannel5.1.e Load Balancing5.2 iSCSI5.2.a Authentication5.2.b Multipathing5.3 RoCE v2 over IP Networks6. Data Center Security and Network Services (10%)6.1 Security features6.1.a ACL's6.1.b First Hop Security6.1.c Port security6.1.d Private VLANs6.1.e Contracts6.2 RBAC6.2.a Radius6.2.b TACACS+6.2.c LDAP6.2.d AAA6.3 Network Services Insertion and Redirection 6.3.a Policy Based Routing6.3.b Policy Based Redirection6.3.c Inter VRF communication6.3.d Route Targets6.3.e Prefix Lists6.4 Services6.4.a Flow/Telemetry Export6.4.b SPAN6.4.c SNMP6.4.d Syslog 6.4.e DHCP6.4.f NTP/PTP6.5 Traffic management6.5.a Queueing6.5.b Policing6.5.c Classification/Marking6.5.d Scheduling6.5.e CoPP7. Data Center Automation and Orchestration (15%)7.1 Data center tasks using scripts (Python and Ansible)7.1.a Create, Read, Update, Delete using RESTful APIs7.1.b Deploy and modify configurations 7.1.c Statistics, Data Collection7.2 Data Center Automation and Orchestration using tools7.2.a DCNM 7.2.b UCSD7.2.b i Tasks

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