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Introducing Cisco Data Center Technologies
(DCICT) v6.1

Overview
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Introducing Cisco Data Center Technologies (DCICT) version 6.1 Cisco Training on Demand course is designed
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to help you prepare for the Cisco CCNA Data Center certification and for associate-level data center roles. You
gain foundational knowledge and skills in technologies including data center network virtualization, unified
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computing, data center automation and orchestration, and Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI ).
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With the hands-on lab exercises, you focus on configuring features of the Cisco Nexus Operating System
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(NX-OS), Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS ), and Cisco UCS Director.

Duration
The DCICT v6.1 Training on Demand course consists of 27 sections totaling more than 40 hours of video
instruction along with 23 hands-on lab exercises.

Target audience
The primary audience for this course is entry-level to experienced network administrators, network engineers and
designers, system administrators and engineers, technical solution architects, and those preparing for the 200-155
DCICT exam.

Objectives
After completing this course, you should be able to:

● Describe and configure Cisco UCS

● Describe and configure Cisco data center virtualization, networking, automation, and orchestration
● Describe and verify Cisco ACI

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 Course prerequisites
The knowledge and skills recommended before attending this course are:

● Good understanding of networking protocols and the VMware environment

● Introducing Cisco Data Center Networking (DCICN) v6.0 or higher

Course outline
● Section 1: Describing Functional Planes of Cisco Nexus Switches
● Section 2: Describing Cisco Nexus Operating System VRF Contexts
● Section 3: Describing Virtual Device Contexts
● Section 4: Describing the Function of Overlays
● Section 5: Describing Virtualization
● Section 6: Describing Virtual Switches
● Section 7: Describing Cisco Fabric Extender Connectivity
● Section 8: Describing Port Channels and Virtual Port Channels
● Section 9: Describing Cisco FabricPath
● Section 10: Describing Unified Port Feature of Cisco Nexus Switches
● Section 11: Describing Cisco Unified Fabric
● Section 12: Describing Data Center Server Connectivity
● Section 13: Describing Cisco IMC Supervisor
● Section 14: Describing Cisco UCS Manager Operations
● Section 15: Describing Role-Based Access Control
● Section 16: Describing Hardware Abstraction in Cisco UCS
● Section 17: Exploring the Utility of Application Programming Interfaces
● Section 18: Introducing Cloud Computing Basic Concepts
● Section 19: Describing Cloud Attributes and Service Models
● Section 20: Describing Cisco UCS Director
● Section 21: Describing VDCs, Tenants, and Policies
● Section 22: Describing Orchestration
● Section 23: Managing Catalogs and Templates
● Section 24: Reporting in Cisco UCS Director (CloudSense)
● Section 25: Describing Cisco ACI
● Section 26: Describing Cisco ACI Fabric
● Section 27: Programming and Orchestrating Cisco ACI

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 Labs outline
This course contains 23 hands-on lab exercises.

Representative topology for all labs in the course:

The labs included in this course are:

● Discovery Lab 2.5: Connect to Cisco Nexus Series Switches by Using SSH
● Discovery Lab 2.6: Configure VRFs
● Discovery Lab 3.17: Explore the Elements of Virtual Device Contexts
● Discovery Lab 5.11: Install VMware ESXi and vCenter
● Discovery Lab 7.16: Configure the Cisco Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender
● Discovery Lab 8.16: Configure Virtual Port Channels
● Challenge Lab 8.17: Configure Virtual Port Channels with FEX
● Discovery Lab 9.9: Configure Cisco FabricPath
● Discovery Lab 10.3: Configure Unified Ports on Cisco Nexus Switch
● Discovery Lab 11.29: Implement FCoE
● Discovery Lab 14.10: Configure the Cisco UCS 6200 Series Fabric Interconnect
● Discovery Lab 14.11: Navigate the Cisco UCS Manager GUI Interfaces
● Discovery Lab 15.14: Configure Local RBAC
● Discovery Lab 16.9: Configure Pools
● Discovery Lab 16.15: Configure a Service Profile Template
● Discovery Lab 17.13: Configure Cisco NX-OS with APIs
● Discovery Lab 17.14: Explore the Management Information Tree of the Cisco UCS Manager XML API
● Discovery Lab 20.16: Configure User Accounts In Cisco UCS Director
● Discovery Lab 20.17: Add Virtual and Physical Accounts to Cisco UCS Director

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 ● Discovery Lab 20.18: Customize Cisco UCS Director
● Discovery Lab 20.19: Explore Cisco UCS Director Monitoring Capabilities
● Discovery Lab 21.12: Create Policies and VDCs
● Discovery Lab 24.12: Create a Catalog, Provision a VM Using the Self-Service Portal, and Explore Reports

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