Cisco DCID 300-610 study guide
Cisco DCID 300-610 · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Cisco Designing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure (DCID) 300-610 exam is a concentration exam within the Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Data Center certification track. It validates the skills required to design Cisco data center solutions, including network, compute, storage network, network services, and infrastructure automation. The Cisco DCID 300-610 study guide has 5 sections and about 2,237 words.
01Data Center Network Design
The Data Center Network Design domain carries roughly a quarter of the 300-610 exam and asks you to convert requirements-scale, L2 stretch, multi-tenancy, failure domains-into a validated spine-leaf design. Expect vPC, VXLAN EVPN, underlay routing, and legacy L2 extension (OTV, FabricPath) questions where the answer depends on which technology the requirement actually forces.
460 words, about 2 min02Data Center Compute Design
Data Center Compute Design covers roughly a quarter of 300-610 and tests whether you can design Cisco UCS domains-B-series with fabric interconnects, C-series rack servers, and Intersight-managed environments-so that fabric redundancy, port roles, and service-profile abstraction all hold up. Two disjoint fabrics.
443 words, about 2 min03Data Center Storage Network Design
Storage Network Design tests SAN design on Cisco MDS and Nexus: VSANs, zoning, NPV/NPIV, SAN port channels, FCoE with DCB, and how FC or iSCSI connectivity maps into the compute design. VSANs are separate fabrics.
466 words, about 2 min04Data Center Network Services Design
Network Services Design covers how the fabric delivers shared services-ACI contracts and L4-L7 insertion, multicast, QoS, and anycast/edge services-rather than basic connectivity. Tenant → VRF → bridge domain → EPG; contracts (subjects + filters) provide the only allowed communication unless a preferred group or vzAny is configured.
454 words, about 2 min05Data Center Infrastructure and Automation Design
Infrastructure and Automation Design tests how you operationalize the fabric: management platforms, programmability interfaces, and automation pipelines for NX-OS, ACI, UCS, and SAN. Management platforms.
414 words, about 2 min