CCNP Data Center Certification Exam Topic Highlights
Data center technologies continue to evolve at a rapid pace. IT professionals focused on data center infrastructure are expected to have deep and broad skills and knowledge in the multiple technologies that enable the data center for IT-as-a-Service agile infrastructure.
The Cisco CCNP® Data Center certification and training program offers comprehensive certification and Professional-level skills focused in depth on the data center solutions and technologies needed to design, implement, troubleshoot, and manage a modern data center infrastructure. The newly revised CCNP key areas of focus include data center networking, unified computing, virtualization, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), and data center automation and orchestration. IT practitioners that are Cisco-certified have validated skills to deploy a common, standard approach for policy and application deployment models across data center infrastructure and cloud.
CCNP Data Center certified professionals are highly qualified for senior roles in complex data centers chartered with enabling digital business transformation initiatives.
The following diagram outlines how the versions align.
This document provides a summary of the key updates that have been made to the new versions of each exam. Each domain lists the technology topics. The topics are general guidelines for the content that is likely to be included in the Marks4Sure 300-160 exam. However, other related topics may also appear on any specific delivery of the exams.
The updated exams and courses better reflect the expanded job roles and tasks required in jobs typically held by data center–focused IT professionals with 5 to 8 years of relevant job experience.
