Course Overview

Building the Cisco Cloud with Application Centric Infrastructure (CLDACI) is a new 5-day ILT course designed to help students prepare for the CCNP Cloud certification, a professional level certification specializing in Cloud technologies. This course extensively covers the process of implementing public, private, and hybrid cloud based on Cisco ACI.

Who Should Attend

Primary Audience:

• Network Designer
• Network Administrator
• Network Engineer
• Systems Engineer
• Consulting Systems Engineer
• Technical Solutions Architect
• Cisco Integrators / Partners

Secondary Audience:

• Server Administrator
• Network Manager

Tertiary Audience:

• Storage Administrator
• Program Manager
• Project Manager

Course Certifications

Prerequisites

The knowledge and skills that a learner should have before attending this course are as follows:

• Good understanding of networking protocols
• Recommend CCNP Certification or equivalent knowledge
• Good understanding of the VMware environment
• Recommend attendance of the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage class or equivalent knowledge

Course Objectives

Upon completing this course, you will be able to meet these objectives:

• Describe Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) fundamentals
• Integrate Cisco ACI with VM managers
• Implement application policies
• Configure Layer 4 to Layer 7 services
• Extend Cisco ACI to external Layer 3 and Layer 2 connections
• Configure orchestration and automation tools, protocols, and application programming interfaces (APIs)

Course Content

• Module 1: Implement Cisco ACI Fundamentals
• Module 2: Implement Cisco ACI Enhanced Features
• Module 3: Configure Cisco ACI External Connections
• Module 4: Automate and Design Cisco ACI Deployment