500-650: Designing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (DCACID)

The Designing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (DCACID) v1.0 is a 5-day product training course that provides you with the knowledge and skills to understand and utilize a programmable fabric design built on Cisco Nexus® 9000 Series Switches in Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode. This course is a deep dive into Cisco ACI design, covering design considerations and best practices, so you can build solid ACI solutions and avoid common mistakes that can impact the network infrastructure. With a focus on various design use cases, this course provides information that can help you practice design decisions, validate your designs, and apply best practices while using Cisco ACI in your multiservice or cloud data centers.

500-650: Designing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (DCACID)

Cisco 500-650 Exam Overview:

Exam Name	Designing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
Exam Number	500-650 DCACID
Exam Number	$300 USD
Duration	90 minutes
Number of Questions	55-65
Passing Score	Variable (750-850 / 1000 Approx.)
Recommended Training	Designing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (DCACID)
Sample Questions	Cisco 500-650 Sample Questions
Practice Exam	Designing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Practice Test

Cisco 500-650 Exam Topics:

Section	Weight	Objectives
Access Policies	10%	- Describe Cisco ACI access policy components - Describe Cisco ACI default access policies, custom policies creation, and naming conventions - Describe Cisco ACI access policy optimization and reuse
Fabric System Settings	10%	- Use fabric wide settings to optimize and control endpoint learning - Use fabric loop detection mechanisms - Use fabric policies for NTP, DNS, SNMP, and syslog configuration
Logical Components	20%	- Describe the tenant in Cisco ACI - Describe the reuse of objects from the common tenant - Describe VRF design considerations - Describe bridge domain design considerations - Describe EPG design considerations - Describe application segmentation with EPGs and ESGs - Describe contracts design considerations and vzAny usage - Select the approach to migrate IP and logical components from an existing data center to Cisco ACI
Physical Structure	20%	- Describe Cisco APIC design considerations - Describe Cisco ACI fabric discovery and initialization process - Describe out-of-band and in-band management - Describe Cisco ACI Multi-Pod design - Describe Cisco ACI Multi-Site design - Describe options for device connectivity to the fabric - Select the approach to migrate existing data center connectivity and physical components from an existing environment to Cisco ACI
L3Outs and Service Insertion	40%	- Select the design approach for Cisco ACI external Layer 3 connectivity - Select the design approach for Cisco ACI Layer 4–7 service insertion - Select the design approach for Cisco ACI PBR-based service redirection - Select the design approach for the L4-L7 service insertion in single-pod Cisco ACI - Select the design approach for L4-L7 service insertion in Cisco ACI MultiPod - Select the design approach for a transit routing solution - Select the design approach for service sharing using vzAny - Select the approach to build a migration plan for Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity, including L3Outs and contracts - Select the approach to migrate vSphere compute environment to Cisco ACI - Select the design approach for QoS for inter-pod and inter-site networks - Select the design approach for auxiliary features, such as DHCP Relay and Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN)