Prepare for DCCOR 350-601 v1.2: Complete Course + Labs

Everything on the 350-601 blueprint, in the order it actually makes sense.

The DCCOR exam covers five domains that most engineers meet separately: networking, compute, storage networking, automation and security. Very few of us work across all five every day, which is exactly why the exam is hard. This course teaches them as one system, in the order that makes each topic explain the next.

You start with the routed underlay, put a BGP control plane on top of it, then build the VXLAN EVPN overlay that rides on both. By the time you reach the overlay, you already understand why it needs what it needs. The same approach runs through Compute, where a single idea (the service profile is the server) unlocks the whole domain, and through Storage, where losslessness explains every design decision that follows.

What is in the course

27 video lessons across the five blueprint domains, weighted the way the exam is weighted: 25 percent Network, 25 percent Compute, 20 percent Storage, 15 percent Automation and AI, 15 percent Security.

A written article for every lesson, plus an introduction and a wrap-up for every section. The articles go deeper than the videos: full comparison tables, complete configuration examples, and the defaults and traps that scenario questions are built on.

135 knowledge check questions with explained answers, five after every lesson, so you find the gaps while the material is fresh rather than three weeks later.

10 hands-on labs with topology diagrams, starting configurations and full solutions. The exam includes configuration items on NX-OS, and reading about OSPF is not the same as typing it under time pressure.

About the labs

The labs cover OSPF underlay, MP-BGP EVPN, port channels and LACP, virtual port channel, first-hop redundancy, PIM sparse mode, VXLAN EVPN with a distributed anycast gateway, Fibre Channel zoning, EEM and NX-API, and AAA with first-hop security.

Every lab ships with a starting configuration, a complete solution, a topology image and a list of the exact verification commands that prove it works. A shared addressing plan runs through all ten, so you learn it once.

A setup lecture walks you through the free Cisco DevNet Sandbox and through building the topology in Cisco Modeling Labs. One lab needs Fibre Channel ports and therefore hardware; the course says so up front rather than pretending otherwise, and gives you a structured paper exercise instead.

How this course is written

No filler, no marketing, no reading of bullet points aloud. Each lesson explains a mechanism, shows the configuration, and then tells you what breaks when you get it wrong and what the symptom looks like. Where a topic has a genuine limitation or a version dependency, the course says so.

All content is original. Configurations are written from scratch with generic hostnames and addressing. Nothing is reproduced from any published book, courseware or exam.

Please note that this course does not include demonstration lessons. All practical work is carried out using written articles that provide step-by-step procedures.

Who should take it

Engineers preparing for 350-601 as a CCNP Data Center core exam or as a CCIE Data Center qualifying exam, and anyone who has to work across data center networking, compute and storage and wants a single coherent picture rather than five disconnected ones.

Before enrolling, please watch the free preview lessons — so you know exactly what you're getting.

Important notice

This is an independent training course. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or otherwise associated with Cisco Systems, Inc. Cisco, CCNP, CCIE, Nexus, NX-OS, UCS, Intersight, ACI and all related names and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. and are used here for identification and descriptive purposes only. All course material is original work by the instructor. No exam questions, official courseware or other copyrighted material belonging to Cisco Systems, Inc. is reproduced in this course. Exam objectives may change without notice; always check the current official blueprint before booking your exam.
This course contains use of AI.