CCNP Implementing and Operating Cisco Data Center Core Technologies (DCCOR)

▪ Spanning Tree Protocol
▪ Port Channels Overview
▪ Virtual Port Channels Overview

▪ Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) Overview
▪ Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) Overview
▪ First Hop Redundancy Protocol (FHRP) for IPv6
▪ Implementing Routing in Data Center
▪ Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) v2 and Open Settlement Protocol (OSP) v3
▪ Border Gateway Protocol 

▪ IP Multicast in Data Center Networks
▪ Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD)
▪ Multicast Distribution Trees and Routing Protocols
▪ IP Multicast on Cisco Nexus Switches 

▪ Cisco Overlay Transport Virtualization
▪ Virtual Extensible LAN

▪ User Accounts and Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
▪ Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) and SSH on Cisco NX-OS
▪ Keychain Authentication
▪ First Hop Security
▪ Media Access Control Security
▪ Control Plane Policing

▪ Cisco ACI Overview, Initialization, and Discovery
▪ Cisco ACI Management
▪ Cisco ACI Fabric Access Policies 

▪ Tenant-Based Components
▪ Cisco ACI Endpoints and Endpoint Groups (EPG)
▪ Controlling Traffic Flow with Contracts
▪ Virtual Switches and Cisco ACI VMM Domains
▪ VMM Domain EPG Association
▪ Cisco ACI Integration with Hypervisor Solutions 

▪ Data Center Traffic Flows
▪ Packet Flow in Cisco Nexus Switches
▪ Packet Flow in Cisco ACI Fabric 

▪ Cloud Architectures
▪ Cloud Deployment Models 

▪ Time Synchronization
▪ Network Configuration Management
▪ Software Updates
▪ Network Infrastructure Monitoring

▪ Need for Network Assurance
▪ Cisco Streaming Telemetry Overview

▪ Fibre Channel Basics
▪ Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN) Overview
▪ SAN Port Channels Overview
▪ Fibre Channel Domain Configuration Process 

▪ Distributed Device Aliases
▪ Zoning
▪ N-Port Identifier Virtualization (NPIV) and N-Port Virtualization (NPV)
▪ Fibre Channel over IP
▪ Network Access Server (NAS) Concepts
▪ Storage Area Network (SAN) Design Options 

▪ Fibre Channel over Ethernet
▪ Describing FCoE
▪ FCoE Topology Options
▪ FCoE Implementation 

▪ User Accounts and RBAC
▪ Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting
▪ Fibre Channel Port Security and Fabric Binding 

▪ Time Synchronization
▪ Software Installation and Upgrade
▪ Storage Infrastructure Monitoring

▪ Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers
▪ Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers

▪ Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect
▪ Cisco UCS B-Series Connectivity
▪ Cisco UCS C-Series Integration 

▪ Identity Abstraction
▪ Service Profile Templates

▪ iSCSI Overview
▪ Fibre Channel Overview
▪ Implement FCoE

▪ User Accounts and RBAC
▪ Options for Authentication
▪ Key Management

▪ Hyperconverged and Integrated Systems Overview
▪ Cisco HyperFlex Solution
▪ Cisco HyperFlex Scalability and Robustness

▪ Compute Configuration Management
▪ Software Updates
▪ Infrastructure Monitoring
▪ Cisco Intersigh 

▪ Cisco NX-OS Programmability
▪ Scheduler Overview
▪ Cisco Embedded Event Manager Overview
▪ Bash Shell and Guest Shell for Cisco NX-OS
▪ Cisco Nexus API 

▪ Cisco and Ansible Integration Overview
▪ Cisco and Puppet Integration Overview
▪ Python in Cisco NX-OS and Cisco UCS 

▪ Power On Auto Provisioning
▪ Cisco Data Center Network Manager Overview
▪ Cisco UCS Director Fundamentals
▪ Cisco UCS PowerTool