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642-982 DCUCD (Coming December 2009)

Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Design Specialist

    Exam Number:     642-982
Associated Certifications: Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Design Specialist
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Exam Topics

The following topics are general guidelines for the content likely to be included on the Remote Access exam. However, other related topics may also appear on any specific delivery of the exam. In order to better reflect the contents of the exam and for clarity purposes, the guidelines below may change at any time without notice.

Describe Cisco data center virtualization solutions

  • Describe the elements of Cisco data center virtualization
  • Describe the advantages of Cisco data center virtualization
  • Given a particular customer business and technical environment, describe the advantage of a Cisco data center virtualization
  • Identify the Cisco services available to design, install and maintain a Cisco virtualized data center
  • Describe how Cisco data center virtualization solutions enable policy retention

Evaluate an existing data center infrastructure in light of a Cisco data center virtualization solution

  • List the most relevant technical data points to identify in converting an existing data center to a Cisco virtualized data center
  • List the most relevant business data points to identify in converting an existing data center to a Cisco virtualized data center
  • List the most relevant environmental data points to identify in converting an existing data center to a Cisco virtualized data center
  • List the most important historical performance characteristics to examine when converting an existing data center to a Cisco virtualized data center
  • Given an existing data center, pick the most appropriate tool that can perform data center recon and analysis

Determine the requirements needed to create a Cisco data center virtualization solution

  • Given gathered historical performance characteristics of a server, appropriately size a virtual machine
  • Given a particular set of data center applications and servers, identify the number of physical machines necessary to create a Cisco virtualized data center solution
  • Given a particular set of data center business drivers, identify the success criteria for a Cisco virtualized data center solution design
  • Given a particular set of data center applications and servers, identify the networking requirements requires to create a Cisco virtualized data center solutions
  • Given a particular set of data center applications and servers, identify the storage requirements requires to create a Cisco virtualized data center solutions
  • Given a particular data center virtualization project, identify the environmental needs that must be met

Design a Cisco data center virtualization solution based on determined requirements

  • Given a particular data center virtualization project, identify the Cisco data center virtualization network technologies employed
  • Given a particular data center virtualization project, identify the Cisco data center virtualization storage technologies employed
  • Given a particular data center virtualization project, choose the necessary Cisco servers necessary to deploy a Cisco virtualized data center solution
  • Given a particular data center virtualization project, choose the necessary Cisco cabling and connectivity components necessary to deploy a Cisco virtualized data center solution
  • Given a particular data center virtualization project, determine an ROI from deploying a Cisco virtualized data center solution
  • Identify the method used to determine the application, server, storage and other business dependancies that will impact the migration plan