Cisco Catalyst Center Foundations (CCFND)

cisco certification course

Vendor: Cisco
Mode: Classroom or Virtual Classrrom with Instructor
Level: Professional
Exam: NA
Exam at your place: NA
Duration: 5 Days
Language: Italian, English, German, French

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Course Price

CHF 4'800.00

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Discount available for multiple students and dedicated classes.

Course Schedule
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What you’ll learn

The Cisco Catalyst Center Foundations (CCFND) course is designed to deepen your understanding of Cisco Catalyst Center, covering fundamental concepts, deployment strategies, scalability options, initial setup procedures, best practices, and integration with Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE). This course emphasizes network automation, assurance, security, and programmability using Cisco Catalyst Center.

While this course is not tied to a particular certification exam, it is highly recommended as an introductory pathway to the topics included in the Implementing and Operating Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies (350-401 ENCOR) training. Completing this training also grants 44 Continuing Education (CE) credits, which can be applied toward certification renewal.

Who should enroll

  • Network Engineers
  • Network Analysts
  • Security Engineers
  • IT Professionals
  • Pre-Sales Engineers

Technology area

  • Enterprise

Training overview

Prerequisites

This training does not have any mandatory prerequisites. However, it is recommended that participants possess the following knowledge and skills before attending:

  • A foundational understanding of networking concepts

  • Basic familiarity with Cisco ISE

  • An introductory knowledge of network automation and programmability

These skills can be found in the following Cisco courses:

Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Gain a comprehensive understanding of the Cisco Catalyst Center product, intent-based networking concepts, system architecture, and its key features and use cases.

  • Apply Cisco Catalyst Center automation (NetOps and SecOps), assurance (AIOps), and integrate the platform with DevOps workflows in your enterprise network.

  • Deploy Cisco Catalyst Center according to pre-deployment requirements and carry out initial setup procedures.

  • Understand high availability and scalability options, including clustering, link redundancy, and disaster recovery strategies.

  • Explore system settings, basic and advanced automation, device provisioning, and compliance audit procedures in Cisco Catalyst Center.

  • Configure Cisco Catalyst Center to onboard devices, integrate with ISE, automate device configurations, monitor device health, and track clients.

  • Understand Cisco SD-Access architecture, including fabric networking, underlay and overlay routing, fabric node roles, and implement policy-based segmentation using group-based, IP-based, and application policies.

Course Outline

  1. Cisco Catalyst Center Overview
  2. Cisco Catalyst Center Deployment
  3. Cisco Catalyst Center High Availability and Scalability
  4. Cisco Catalyst Center System Settings and Operations
  5. Cisco Catalyst Center Inventory, Discovery, and Device Manageability
  6. Cisco Catalyst Center Basic Automation and Provisioning
  7. Cisco Catalyst Center Advanced Automation and Day-0 Onboarding
  8. Cisco Prime Infrastructure to Cisco Catalyst Center Migration
  9. Cisco Catalyst Center Health and Performance Monitoring
  10. Cisco Catalyst Center Assurance Device, Client, and Application Health
  11. Cisco Catalyst Center Issues, Insights, and Trends Monitoring
  12. Cisco Catalyst Center Wireless Networks Monitoring and Troubleshooting
  13. Cisco SD-Access Overview
  14. Cisco Catalyst Center Policies
  15. Cisco Catalyst Center Endpoint Visibility
  16. Cisco Catalyst Center Platform Overview
  17. Cisco Catalyst Center Network and Assurance Automation

Lab Outline

  1. Integrate Cisco ISE and Cisco Catalyst Center
  2. Add Network Devices to Cisco Catalyst Center
  3. Automate Basic Device Configuration Using Cisco Catalyst Center
  4. Upgrade Network Device using Cisco Catalyst Center
  5. Automate Network Device Configuration Using a Template
  6. Onboard a Device Using PnP
  7. Troubleshoot the Health of Network Devices
  8. Monitor the Health of Clients and Applications
  9. Observe Assurance AI Network Analytics
  10. Monitor Wireless Networks with Advanced Assurance Tools
  11. Explore Cisco SD-Access Networks
  12. Deploy SD-Access Group-Based Access Control Policy
  13. Examine Cisco Catalyst Center APIs
  14. Examine Cisco Catalyst Center Webhooks
  15. Deploy IaaC Using Cisco Catalyst Center and Terraform
  16. Automate Cisco Catalyst Center Assurance Using Ansible

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