Cisco DCAUTO 300-635 study guide
Cisco DCAUTO 300-635 · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Cisco 300-635 DCNAUTO exam is a concentration exam in Cisco's data center certification track, focused on automating and programmatically managing Cisco data center infrastructure. It is aimed at network engineers, data center operations staff, and automation-minded architects who already work with Cisco Nexus switching, Cisco ACI, or NX-OS environments and want to prove they can move from manual CLI work to repeatable, code-driven operations. The Cisco DCAUTO 300-635 study guide has 4 sections and about 1,706 words.
01Data Center Automation and Programmability Fundamentals
Data Center Automation and Programmability Fundamentals tests whether you can pick the right automation mechanism and data model for a data center task, and whether you understand what sits underneath the Cisco tooling. Expect agent-based versus agentless automation, controller-based versus device-by-device, API semantics, encodings, and the model-driven stack of YANG, NETCONF, RESTCONF and gNMI/gRPC.
415 words, about 2 min02Cisco Nexus Dashboard and Data Center Network Management Automation
Cisco Nexus Dashboard and Data Center Network Management Automation covers how Cisco's data center controllers are structured, which app owns which job, and how to drive them by API instead of the GUI. Nexus Dashboard is the common platform: a one- or three-node cluster providing single sign-on, RBAC and shared services that hosts the applications below.
441 words, about 2 min03Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management
Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management tests whether you can treat network configuration like software: versioned, reviewed, tested and repeatable. Expect Ansible internals, Terraform mechanics, and CI/CD pipeline design for data center devices.
436 words, about 2 min04Cisco ACI and NX-OS Automation with APIs and Scripting
Cisco ACI and NX-OS Automation with APIs and Scripting is the largest domain: the ACI object model and APIC REST API, plus NX-OS surfaces such as NX-API, the Python SDK, on-box scripting and model-driven interfaces. ACI is built on the Management Information Tree.
414 words, about 2 min