300-610 Exam Information and Guideline
Designing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure (DCID)
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DCID 300-610
Certifications: CCNP Data Center, Cisco Certified Specialist - Data Center Design
Duration: 90 minutes
Exam Description
The Designing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure v1.0 (DCID 300-610) exam is a 90-minute exam associated with the CCNP Data Center and Cisco Certified Specialist - Data Center Design certifications. This exam certifies a candidate's knowledge of data center infrastructure design including network, compute, storage network, and automation. The course, Designing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure, helps candidates to prepare for this exam.
35% 1.0 Network Design
1.1 Evaluate options for Layer 2 connectivity
1.1.a Endpoint mobility
1.1.b Redundancy/high availability
1.1.c Convergence
1.1.d Services insertion
1.2 Evaluate options for Layer 3 connectivity
1.2.a IP mobility
1.2.b Redundancy / high availability (graceful restart, NSF)
1.2.c Convergence
1.2.d Services insertion (load balancing, security)
1.3 Evaluate data center technologies such as vPC/vPC+
1.4 Evaluate options for interconnecting data centers such as VXLAN EVPN and OTV
1.5 Evaluate options for device and routing virtualization
1.5.a VDC
1.5.b VRF (standard, VXLAN EVPN tenant)
1.6 Evaluate in-band and out-of-band options for management
1.7 Evaluate redundancy options such as active/active and disaster recovery site
25% 2.0 Compute Design
2.1 Evaluate options for Ethernet connectivity
2.1.a Redundancy / high availability
2.1.b Bandwidth (oversubscription)
2.1.c Fabric interconnect operation mode (switch mode, end host mode)
2.2 Evaluate options for storage connectivity
2.2.a Bandwidth (port-channels, oversubscription)
2.2.b Fabric interconnect operation mode (switch mode, end host mode)
2.2.c Direct-attached storage (appliance, FC storage, and FCoE ports)
2.3 Evaluate options for network device virtualization in a data center (Cisco VIC adapters)
2.3.a Number of interfaces vs. IOM uplinks
2.3.b vCon placement policies
2.3.c Ethernet adaptor policies
2.3.d Fibre Channel adapter policies
2.4 Evaluate options for hyperconverged infrastructure
2.4.a Cluster mode
2.4.b HX for virtual server
2.4.c Desktop virtualization
20% 3.0 Storage Network Design
3.1 Plan for iSCSI deployment in a data center (Multipathing and addressing schemes)
3.2 Evaluate QoS requirements in a data center
3.2.a Fibre Channel
3.2.b FCoE
3.2.c FCIP
3.2.d iSCSI
3.3 Determine FCoE/ Fibre Channel interface
3.3.a Dedicated and shared mode
3.3.b Port types
3.3.c ISL
3.3.d Oversubscription
3.4 Evaluate SAN topology options
20% 4.0 Automation Design
4.1 Evaluate options for network orchestration and automation
4.1.a DCNM
4.1.b Intersight
4.1.c NX-API
4.1.d Model-driven programmability
4.1.e Ansible
4.1.f Puppet
4.1.g Python
4.2 Evaluate options for compute orchestration and automation
4.2.a Service profile templates
4.2.b vNIC templates
4.2.c vHBA templates
4.2.d Global policies vs. local policies