To earn your elite CCIE Data Center certification and move up from CCNP
status, you must pass challenging real-world CCIE Data Center labs.
Straight from Cisco, The CCIE Data Center Hand-on Lab Guide presents
realistic lab exercises and tasks covering all five topic areas
addressed in the CCIE Data Center exam:
- Network, including data center routing/switching environments with
Nexus switches; multicast and overlay technologies; data center
fabrics with VXLAN/VXLAN-EVPN or ACI, and more
- Compute, including managing compute infrastructure with Cisco UCS
Series switches, and leveraging UCS Series blade and rack servers to
connect virtual hosts and SAN environments
- Storage, including Fibre Channel (FC), Fibre Channel over Ethernet
(FCoE), and connectivity
- Automation, including essential configuration and monitoring tasks
- Security, including hardening device security in a data center
environment, using Nexus switches, ACI fabrics, or storage devices
such as MDS 9000 series switches
Every lab exercise and task is crafted to help build you understanding
of key concepts and features, link theory to practice, and apply your
knowledge on exam day and in your professional work.
Questions, exercises, and note pages appear in print, and companion
online components present correct lab outputs and implementation,
explaining feature choices and showing configuration and verification
examples. These print and online components work together seamlessly,
helping candidates understand both how to implement features, and why.
