CCDE Practical Exam v3: On-Prem and Cloud Services Technology List
The technologies shown in this document are associated with the On-prem and Cloud Services area of expertise of the CCDE v3 practical exam. Candidates are expected to have a deep understanding of these technologies. Each of these technologies may appear in any delivery of the exam.
Note: The technologies listed here are in addition to the technologies listed in the CCDE Core Technology list.
1.0 Transport Technologies |
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1.1 Data Center Interconnect options |
2.0 Layer 3 Control Plane |
2.1 Inter-fabric connectivity, such as multipod, multisite |
2.2 External connectivity for on-prem and cloud |
2.3 Multi-cloud network architecture |
3.0 Network Virtualization |
3.1 Overlay |
3.1.a Management plane |
3.1.b Control plane |
3.1.c Data plane (such as VXLAN, MPLS) |
3.1.d Segmentation |
3.1.e Policy |
3.1.e.i Security |
3.1.e.ii Topologies |
3.1.e.iii Data center interconnect |
3.1.e.iv Multiple site strategy |
3.1.e.v Service insertion |
3.2 Virtual Networking |
4.0 Automation |
4.7 Deployment models |
4.7.a Bare metal |
4.7.b VM |
4.7.c Microservices |
5.0 Data Center |
5.1 Storage |
5.1.a Physical topology |
5.1.b QoS requirements |
5.1.c FC and FCoE |
5.1.c.i Zoning |
5.1.c.ii Trunking |
5.1.c.iii Link aggregation |
5.1.c.iv Load balancing |
5.1.d iSCSI |
5.1.d.i Authentication |
5.1.d.ii Multipathing |
5.2 Application delivery |
5.2.a Load balancer deployment modes |
5.3 Compute |
5.3.a UCS blade integration |
5.3.b UCS rack server integration |
5.3.c HyperFlex integration |
5.4 Compute connectivity |
5.4.a SAN/LAN uplinks |
5.4.b Port modes |