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Course Content for CCNP SP Automation and Programming Service Provider Solutions

• 1.0 Network Programmability Foundation
• 1.1 Utilize common version control operations with git (add, clone, push, commit, diff,
  branching, and merging conflict)
• 1.2 Describe characteristics of API styles (REST and RPC)
• 1.3 Describe the challenges encountered and patterns used when consuming APIs
  synchronously and asynchronously
• 1.4 Interpret Python scripts containing data types, functions, classes, conditions, and
  looping
• 1.5 Describe the benefits of Python virtual environments
• 1.6 Explain the benefits of using network configuration tools such as Ansible and Puppet for
  automating IOS XE or IOS XR platforms

   

• 2.0 Automation APIs and Protocols
• 2.1 Describe the characteristics and use of YANG Data Models (OpenConfig, IETF, and
  Vendor)
• 2.2 Describe common HTTP authentication mechanisms (basic, token, and oauth)
• 2.3 Compare common data types (JSON, XML, YAML, plain text, gRPC, and protobuf)
• 2.4 Identify the JSON instance based on a YANG model
• 2.5 Identify the XML instance based on a YANG model
• 2.6 Interpret a YANG module tree generated by pyang
• 2.7 Implement configuration and operation management using RESTCONF protocol
• 2.8 Implement configuration and operation management using NETCONF protocol
• 2.9 Compare the NETCONF datastores
• 3.0 Network Device Programmability
• 3.1 Deploy device configuration and validate operational state using ncclient
• 3.2 Construct a Python script using NETCONF with YDK
• 3.3 Deploy device configuration and validate operational state using NetMiko
• 3.4 Deploy device configuration and validate operational state using Ansible playbooks
• 3.5 Compare gNMI with NETCONF
• 3.6 Construct a Python script using RESTCONF with JSON
• 3.7 Construct Xpath notation for a given node or instance of a node
• 3.8 Diagnose model-driven dial-in/-out telemetry streams with gRPC for a Cisco IOS XR
• 4.0 Automation and Orchestration Platforms
• 4.1 Describe ETSI NFV
• 4.2 Describe NSO architecture
• 4.3 Identify the benefits of NSO
• 4.4 Construct a Python script to configure a device using NSO RESTCONF API
• 4.5 Describe the management and automation of Cisco ESC components
• 4.6 Implement XR traffic controller (including topology information transfer to XTC)
• 4.7 Identify the uses of Cisco WAE
• 4.8 Construct a service template using NSO
• 4.9 Deploy a service package using NSO

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