Cisco Certified Automation Specialist - Enterprise Automation and Programmability — Requirements & Free Practice

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Cisco specialist certification earned by passing the 300-435 ENAUTO examination.

Licensing authority: Cisco

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Examination outline

Network Automation Foundation (10%)
- OpenConfig, IETF, and native YANG models
- NETCONF and RESTCONF
- JSON payload from a YANG model
- XML payload from a YANG model
- YANG module tree per RFC8340
Device-Level Network Automation (25%)
- Python and Netmiko configuration management and monitoring
- Python and ncclient configuration management and monitoring
- Python and RESTCONF configuration management and monitoring
- Ansible configuration management
- Device-level Day 0 provisioning
- Troubleshooting RESTCONF, NETCONF and YANG solutions
- On-box automation with EEM, guest shell, and Python
Controller-Based Network Automation (30%)
- Controller-based Day-0 provisioning
- Python controller-based configuration management and monitoring
- Advanced Jinja2 network configuration templates
- Ansible controller-based configuration management
- Security automation for policy, compliance, and segmentation
- Troubleshooting REST API network automation
Operations (20%)
- Cisco platform APIs for testing and validation
- Network topology simulations
- Controller-based device software version management
- Controller-based network health monitoring
- Model driven telemetry on Cisco IOS XE
- Webhook-based monitoring using controllers
AI in Automation (15%)
- AI in controller-based platforms
- AI-assisted code development for network automation
- Security risks in AI-based network automation
- Python FastMCP server providing network information to an AI agent

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