Automating Cisco Data Center Networking Solutions
Proctored selected-response exam combining direct knowledge checks with product, architecture, implementation, analysis, and troubleshooting scenarios.
- Type
- Written
- Delivery
- Both
- Duration
- 90 min
Exam sections
Infrastructure As Code
In this part of the assessment, candidates work with the concepts, workflows, configuration decisions, and operational outcomes associated with Infrastructure As Code. The emphasis is on usable understanding: selecting, explaining, implementing, or troubleshooting the relevant Cisco Automation technologies behavior in context. For Data Center Automation and Programmability, the practical connection to Network Element Programmability is especially worth tracing.
Question notes
Scenario questions may omit irrelevant implementation detail while preserving the requirement that decides the answer. Identify that deciding constraint before comparing the available options. This distinction matters specifically to Automating Cisco Data Center Networking Solutions and its role-focused assessment boundary.
Preparation tips
Translate every published subtopic in Infrastructure As Code into an action: configure it, locate it, analyze its output, or explain its effect. Revisit any item that you can define but cannot apply. Close the session by explaining how this work supports data-center APIs, infrastructure as code, programmability, and automated operations without consulting notes.
Network Element Programmability
The official outline places the concepts, workflows, configuration decisions, and operational outcomes associated with Network Element Programmability within Network Element Programmability. Candidates need to understand how the pieces relate, when each one is relevant, and what a sound result looks like in the context of Cisco Automation technologies. This is one of the specific capability boundaries that gives Data Center Automation and Programmability its role relevance.
Question notes
The assessment may connect configuration intent with resulting behavior. Candidates should understand how changes in Network Element Programmability become visible through status, telemetry, policy evaluation, or user experience. When context is ambiguous, prefer the interpretation that fits Cisco Automation technologies guidance and the stated scenario outcome.
Preparation tips
Build a small scenario around Network Element Programmability, perform or diagram the relevant workflow, then explain why each choice is appropriate and what evidence would reveal a mistake. Use the official subtopics as a checklist after the exercise. Finish by checking the result against every official subtopic grouped under Network Element Programmability.
Operations
The official outline places the concepts, workflows, configuration decisions, and operational outcomes associated with Operations within Operations. Candidates need to understand how the pieces relate, when each one is relevant, and what a sound result looks like in the context of Cisco Automation technologies. The domain is most useful when studied as part of the complete Data Center Automation and Programmability workflow.
Question notes
Where several answers seem reasonable, use provider-recommended behavior, explicit requirements, and the least disruptive complete solution to distinguish the strongest response. Use the official Operations subtopics to judge how deep the expected reasoning should go.
Preparation tips
Explain Operations aloud as if handing an environment to a colleague. Include purpose, prerequisites, normal workflow, expected evidence, common misconfiguration, and a safe first troubleshooting step. Close the session by explaining how this work supports data-center APIs, infrastructure as code, programmability, and automated operations without consulting notes.
AI In Automation
AI In Automation examines the concepts, workflows, configuration decisions, and operational outcomes associated with AI In Automation. Candidates should be able to connect these elements to data-center APIs, infrastructure as code, programmability, and automated operations and recognize how decisions in this area affect the surrounding Cisco Automation technologies solution. Candidates should relate this material to Infrastructure As Code wherever the workflow crosses domain boundaries.
Question notes
Questions in this area may combine conceptual recognition with applied judgment, asking candidates to interpret a condition, select an approach, or identify the consequence of a change. Use the official AI In Automation subtopics to judge how deep the expected reasoning should go.
Preparation tips
Use the official outline to design several decision scenarios for AI In Automation. For each one, state the requirement, reject at least one tempting alternative, and justify the final approach in product-specific terms. Then connect the exercise to Infrastructure As Code so preparation covers the handoff between domains.