The CLDACI 1.0 – Building the Cisco Cloud with Application Centric Infrastructure course helps students prepare for the CCNP Cloud certification, a professional-level certification specializing in Cloud technologies. This course extensively covers the process of implementing public, private, and hybrid cloud-based on Cisco ACI.

Upon completion of the course, you will be able to:

• Describe Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) fundamentals
• Integrate Cisco ACI with VM managers
• Implement application policies
• Configure Layer 4 to Layer 7 services
• Extend Cisco ACI to external Layer 3 and Layer 4 connections
• Configure orchestration and automation tools, protocols and application programming interfaces (APIs)

• Implementing Cisco ACI Fundamentals
• Implementing Cisco ACI Enhanced Features
• Configuring Cisco ACI External Cloud Connectivity Automate and Design
• Cisco ACI Deployment
• Implementing ACI Fabric Connectivity for Virtual Machines
• Deploying Application Access Control Monitor Traffic with Atomic Counters
• Deploying vPC Connections to Hypervisors
• Deploying Cisco AVS and Micro-segmentation
• Adding Bare Metal Hosts and Implement Inter-Tenant Connectivity
• Integrating Cisco ASA Firewall in ACI Fabric
• Enabling Connectivity to External Layer 3 Networks
• Enabling Connectivity to External Layer 2 Networks
• Provision ACI Using UCS Director Program
• APIC Using Python and Arya (Optional)

• Channel Partners
• Resellers
• Customers
• Employees

It is recommended, but not required, that students have basic knowledge of:

• Good understanding of networking protocols
• Recommend CCNP Certification or equivalent knowledge
• Good understanding of the VMware environment
• Recommend attendance of the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage class or equivalent knowledge