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Cisco Certified Automation Specialist - Core

Licensing authority: Cisco

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Designing, Deploying and Managing Network Automation Systems

Designing, Deploying and Managing Network Automation Systems

Time limit
120 minutes
Exam fee
$US400, or use Cisco Learning Credits
Examination outline
  • Network Automation (30%)
    • Ansible network automation
    • Terraform network automation
    • RESTCONF and YANG automation
    • Python network automation
    • Selecting an automation approach
    • REST API automation
  • Infrastructure as Code (30%)
    • Git version control operations
    • Diagnosing GitLab CI/CD failure
    • Constructing a GitLab CI/CD pipeline
    • Cisco Modeling Labs simulation
    • Docker Compose interpretation
    • Source of truth integration
    • YANG-based configuration representation
  • Operations (20%)
    • Model-driven telemetry
    • Logging strategy
    • Diagnosing automation problems
    • Change validation with pyATS
    • CA-signed TLS certificates
    • Secure coding practices
  • AI in Automation (20%)
    • AI-assisted code development
    • AI solution security risks
    • FastMCP server construction
    • LLM conversational agent construction
    • Evaluating AI recommendations
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