Cisco DCCOR (350-601) study guide
Cisco DCCOR (350-601) · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
DCCOR (350-601) is the core exam on Cisco's data center certification path, aimed at engineers who implement and operate data center infrastructure rather than merely describe it. Candidates typically already work with Nexus switching, UCS compute, SAN fabrics, or data center automation, and are validating that they can configure, secure, and troubleshoot these domains together. The Cisco DCCOR (350-601) study guide has 5 sections and about 2,052 words.
01Network
The Network domain carries roughly a quarter of 350-601. It tests whether you can build the Nexus underlay and overlay and predict what happens when a peer-link, VTEP, or site link fails, covering VXLAN BGP EVPN, vPC, OTV, ACI policy, and forwarding details.
439 words, about 2 min02Compute
The Compute domain tests UCS Manager operations and the surrounding management stack: resource pools, service profiles and templates, boot and BIOS policies, and how fabric interconnects connect to LAN and SAN. A UCS domain is a pair of FIs in a cluster, one primary and one subordinate, joined by the cluster link; they must be directly connected, not routed.
408 words, about 2 min03Storage Network
The Storage Network domain covers Cisco MDS and Nexus FCoE: Fibre Channel services, VSAN design, zoning, NPV/NPIV, SAN port channels, and FCIP. FC uses WWPNs for ports and WWNNs for nodes.
428 words, about 2 min04Security
The Security domain tests how you control access to Nexus, MDS, UCS, and ACI, and how you protect the data-plane edge: AAA, RBAC, CoPP, port security, DHCP snooping, DAI, and SAN fabric binding. Cisco AAA separates authentication, authorization, and accounting.
390 words, about 2 min05Automation
The Automation domain tests how you configure and query Cisco data center platforms programmatically: NX-API, the ACI and UCS APIs, POAP, Guest Shell, EEM, and common tools such as Ansible and Terraform. NX-API exposes the CLI over HTTP/HTTPS after feature nxapi is enabled.
387 words, about 2 min