300-630 DCACIA and 300-635 DCAUTO CCNP Practice Test 2026

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(300-630 DCACIA) Implementing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure - Advanced :-

Implementing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure – Advanced  (DCACIA 300- 630) is a 90-minute exam. This exam tests a candidate's advanced knowledge and skills of Cisco switches in ACI mode including configuration, implementation, management, and troubleshooting.

300-630 DCACIA Exam Topics :

1.0 ACI Packet Forwarding

• Describe packet forwarding between leafs (VxLAN)

• Implement server NIC teaming with ACI

• Implement endpoint learning optimizations (local/remote endpoint, limit IP subnet, enforce subnet check, IP dataplane leaning option in VRF, loop detection, and rogue EP)

2.0 Advanced ACI Policies and Integrations

• Implement Layer 3 out transit routing

• Utilize common tenant

• Implement VRF route leaking

• Implement Layer 3 out VRF route leaking

• Implement contracts (pcTag, global pcTab, contract priorities, taboo, and deny filter)

• Implement Layer 4 through Layer 7 PBR (including use cases)

3.0 Multipod

• Implement IPN

• Describe packet flow between pods

• Describe firewall and load balancer design with multipod

• Implement service graph with multipod

4.0 Multisite

• Implement Multi-Site Orchestrator

• Implement ISN

• Describe stretched component options

• Describe communication across sites

5.0 Traditional network with ACI

• Describe network-centric and application-centric designs

• Describe STP BPDU handling in ACI (FD-VNID and VLAN pool consideration)

• Describe migration considerations

(300-635 DCAUTO) Automating and Programming Cisco Data Center Solutions :-

Automating Cisco Data Center Solutions  (DCAUTO 300-635) is a 90-minute exam associated with the CCNP Data Center Certification and DevNet Professional Certification. This exam certifies a candidate's knowledge of implementing Data Center automated solutions, including programming concepts, orchestration and automation tools.

300-635 DCAUTO Exam Topics :

1.0 Network Programmability Foundation

• Utilize common version control operations with git: add, clone, push, commit, diff, branching, merging conflict

• Describe characteristics of API styles (REST and RPC)

• Describe the challenges encountered and patterns used when consuming APIs synchronously and asynchronously

• Interpret Python scripts containing data types, functions, classes, conditions, and looping

• Describe the benefits of Python virtual environments

• Explain the benefits of using network configuration tools such as Ansible and Terraform for automating data center platforms

2.0 Controller Based Data Center Networking

• Leverage the API inspector to explore the REST API calls made by the ACI GUI

• Construct a Python script to create an application policy using the ACI REST API

• Construct a Python script to create an application policy using the ACI Cobra SDK

• Construct an Ansible playbook to create an application policy

• Describe the benefits of integrating Kubernetes infrastructure using the ACI CNI plugin

• Construct a Terraform plan to use an ACI or Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller

3.0 Data Center Device-centric Networking

• Describe Day 0 provisioning with NX-OS

a Cisco POAP

b NX-OS iPXE

• Implement On-Box Programmability and Automation with NX-OS

a Bash

b Linux containers (LXC and Docker using provided container

c NX-OS guest shell

d Embedded Event Manager (EEM)

e On-box Python Scripting

• Compare model-driven telemetry such as YANG Push and gRPC to traditional network monitoring strategies such as SMNP, Netflow, and SYSLOG

• Construct Python script that consumes model-driven telemetry data with NX-OS

• Implement Off-Box Programmability and Automation with NX-OS

4.0 Data Center Compute

• Configure Cisco UCS with developer tools

a UCS PowerTool

b UCS Python SDK

c Ansible

• Describe the capabilities of the Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller API

• Identify the steps in the Cisco Intersight API authentication method

• Construct a Cisco Intersight API call given documentation to accomplish tasks such as manage server policies, service profiles, and firmware updates

• Interpret a Terraform plan to use the Cisco Intersight provider