CISCO ACI Assessment Test

A CISCO ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) Assessment Test evaluates candidates for their proficiency in designing, deploying, and managing network infrastructures using CISCO's ACI technology. CISCO ACI is a comprehensive solution that provides centralized automation, policy-driven application profiles, and network visibility and analytics for modern data center environments.

A CISCO ACI Assessment Test assesses candidates on:

1. ACI Architecture: Understanding of the architecture and components of CISCO ACI, including Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC), leaf switches, spine switches, Application Network Profiles (ANPs), and Endpoint Groups (EPGs).
2. Policy-Driven Automation: Proficiency in defining and implementing network policies and service profiles using the declarative model of ACI, including application-centric policies for traffic flows, security, Quality of Service (QoS), and service chaining.
3. Tenant Configuration: Skill in configuring tenants, contexts, and bridge domains in CISCO ACI to logically partition the network and provide isolation and segmentation for different applications, departments, or customers.
4. Application Profiles: Ability to create and manage application profiles in ACI, including specifying application requirements, defining EPGs, configuring contracts, and mapping application components to network resources.
5. Integration with Virtual and Physical Environments: Understanding of integrating virtualization platforms (e.g., VMWare, Hyper-V, KVM) and physical devices (e.g., servers, switches, routers) with CISCO ACI using APIs, VXLAN encapsulation, and integration with hypervisor switches.
6. Network Fabric Configuration: Knowledge of configuring the network fabric in ACI, including fabric discovery, fabric access policies, VLAN pools, interface policies, and port-channel configurations for leaf-spine connectivity.
7. Policy Enforcement and Monitoring: Proficiency in enforcing network policies, security policies, and compliance requirements across the ACI fabric using role-based access control (RBAC), contracts, microsegmentation, and network telemetry.
8. Fault Management and Troubleshooting: Skill in monitoring the health and performance of the ACI fabric, identifying faults and alarms, analyzing logs and events, and troubleshooting connectivity issues using ACI troubleshooting tools and utilities.
9. Integration with External Services: Understanding of integrating ACI with external services and systems, such as firewalls, load balancers, DNS servers, and orchestration platforms, using service graphs, device packages, and REST APIs.
10. Scalability and Resilience: Ability to design scalable and resilient ACI fabrics, including considerations for multi-site deployments, redundancy, load balancing, high availability, and disaster recovery.

Overall, our CISCO ACI Assessment Test measures candidates' knowledge, skills, and experience in designing, deploying, and managing CISCO ACI-based network infrastructures, providing valuable insights for organizations seeking qualified professionals to architect and operate modern data center networks.