What are you going to learn about in the DCCOR show at ITPro.TV? Find out in this overview episode where Ronnie and Anthony will discuss the course.
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Welcome to Cisco CCNP data core.
DCCOR, that's right,
a new episode is actually coming
right at you in just a few minutes.
But before we get started,
let's go ahead and
talk a little bit about
the basics of this course.
And of course, well who's actually
gonna be our subject matter expert?
Anthony?
Sequeira.
All right, Anthony.
Glad that actually with us
as we begin this new course.
Tell us a little bit about yourself.
And the idea here of why
this is gonna be fun for us.
>> Yeah, Ronnie,
I've been working with Cisco Systems for
decades now, and just super excited for
this particular course.
And that's because in the data
center core environment,
we're gonna be learning the cutting
edge technologies when it
comes to things like networking and
storage and security.
And compute resources in the data center.
And Ronnie, I say I'm super excited to
get to this course because we're gonna
do cutting edge technologies
of the data center.
But what's cool for our students is
that a lot of these technologies
are now starting to spillover.
Into the enterprise network.
So when you and I were teaching the
enterprise track here, we were teaching
things like VX LAN all of a sudden, and
technologies like Cisco trust sec, and
these are the cutting edge technologies
that we'll be looking at initial.
>> Yeah, and my particular role as we go
through is I don't, I'm not super familiar
with the idea of the data center
technologies that are actually there.
I understand a little bit about them.
I know what they are,
but we're really going to be diving
into some of the technicalities of it.
And that's what I'll be playing is
the role of the, the student for
everybody as I'm learning,
>> I just, before we walked
into the studio, I said to Ronnie,
Have you taught the data center curriculum
before and Ronnie is like no never
taught before that was, that's awesome.
Because I get to teach to you.
>> Right.
>> And the questions that you're going to
be bringing up are legitimate questions
right as Ronnie is taking
a look at this content.
>> Now, Ronnie, you did share with me
that you've actually set up Cisco UCS as
the things of that nature.
So we're cheating a little bit
because Ronnie actually has hands
on experience with some of this tech,
but it is really, I promise you gonna be
cutting edge you're gonna love it
>> All right.
So if a student's watching this, they
might be asking, Hey, what is it in it?
What's in this for
me as we go through what would make
a student successful as a finisher?
>> Yeah, I really think students
are going to be very excited by the fact
that they are going to understand
the latest technologies.
Great example, I love to give here is
like you see a newly minted CCNA, and
they're all excited about rapid
spanning tree protocol, and they've
mastered rapid spanning tree protocol,
and they're so excited about that.
Well, Ronnie, and I kind of look at
each other and we're like, gosh.
Do we tell them?
Should we tell them?
And of course, what we're contemplating
telling them is that RSTP,
Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol, we're not
going to use it in the data center.
So it's just really interesting
that we'll be teaching students
these next generation technologies
that may completely eradicate.
Technologies that they've
been familiar with before.
>> So what's gonna be
the breakdown of our course?
How are we gonna proceed through
the lessons that we're gonna do?
>> Yeah, great, great question.
So in Cisco's body of work their website
[LAUGH] when we go to the Cisco website.
We see the certification area.
And if you take a look at
the official DC core exam objectives,
you're gonna see it breaks down
into five different domains.
And that's just how we're gonna do it.
It makes perfect sense the layout
of those five domains.
So we'll stay in that order as we
go throughout the material Ronnie,
course we do get started with a little
nx-os primmer that I put together for
our students that was certainly
not mentioned by Cisco.
So every now and then we'll introduce
some new topics for your benefit but
those exam objectives,
it'll be the blueprint we follow.
What are some details about the DC
core exam that we can share?
>> Well, we can share the fact that
currently it is 102 questions.
So this is in that format of the core
exams along with CCNA 102 questions
currently, we're gonna have multiple
choice, multiple correct multiple choice.
And grag and drop.
[COUGH] Notice no simulations yet.
Cisco says they're coming, but none yet.
And this exam in particular,
I can go out on a limb and
say it would be the last
to get simulations, right?
Because these would be
the most sophisticated.
[LAUGH] Simulations that
Cisco wanted to pull of.
So I really do think we're
safe on this one for
quite a while on the 102 basically
multiple choice questions.
>> Is there any one technology that we're
going to go over that makes you really
excited that we'll be covering this court?
>> My gosh, that's a tough one this
course because I really do love it.
All of the tech that we're
gonna be talking about.
But Ronnie, without a doubt,
I do have to say for myself and for
many of the students out there, it's the
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure,
Cisco's ACI,
that we're gonna take a detailed look at.
And I think students are gonna love that,
because so
many students that I encounter they say,
wow,
this Cisco ACI in the data
center is a really big deal.
Can you tell me about it?
I'd be like everyone wanna know
about this, especially since Ronnie,
I don't know how many
times you've heard this.
But I certainly have You hear
definitions of what ACI is, and
it confuses you [LAUGH] way
more than it helps you.
So we're gonna make
that technology simple.
>> Yeah, no, I agree.
I think that that's probably the key
piece that I'd like to actually get no
more as well.
So I'm glad that we'll be
doing this course together.
Alright, so that means if you
are actually ready to proceed Well,
all you have to do is actually
realize Just a quick way, so
we'll see in the very next episode
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