Cisco Certified Specialist - Service Provider Cloud Network Infrastructure — Requirements & Free Practice

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Licensing authority: Cisco Systems, Inc.

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Examination outline

Virtualized Architecture (25%)
- Describe IaaS constraints such as VLAN scale and segmentation
- Determine the cloud service model for private, public, or hybrid deployments
- Describe container orchestration and virtual machines
- Implement virtualization functions
- Deploy NFV using automation and orchestration
Cloud Interconnect (25%)
- Describe carrier-neutral facilities
- Evaluate WAN infrastructure connectivity
- Troubleshoot DCI solutions
High Availability (20%)
- Implement technologies for high availability
- Implement multi-homing
- Implement EVLAG
- Implement a virtual private cloud
- Implement ECMP from NFVI to physical infrastructure
- Recommend design models for high availability
Security (15%)
- Implement infrastructure security
- Describe DoS mitigation techniques
- Describe NFVI security
- Describe cloud security solutions
Service Assurance and Optimization (15%)
- Describe network assurance
- Describe cloud infrastructure and performance monitoring
- Diagnose NFVI errors and events
- Describe VNF optimization

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