Test automation readiness: APIs; Python; model-driven; telemetry; controllers; CI/CD validation for 300-435
Sub Category
- IT Certifications
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Objectives
- Build verification pipelines that prove success: pre-checks, post-checks, diffing, and drift detection.
- Design safe REST API workflows: auth, idempotency, retries, status-code decisions, and rollback thinking.
- Write maintainable Python automation: modular code, data handling, sessions, logging, and clean error control.
- Translate YANG models into correct NETCONF/RESTCONF payloads and validate state with operational queries.
- Choose between config edits, RPC actions, and model-driven telemetry based on the outcome you need.
- Automate controller platforms with scalable patterns: inventory, tagging, policy objects, and job tracking.
- Create meaningful observability: KPIs, alert thresholds, correlation, and noise reduction for operations.
- Apply CI/CD principles to network change: tests, schema validation, gated promotion, and safe rollouts.
- Strengthen security in automation: least privilege, token rotation, secrets handling, and auditability.
- Make faster, calmer decisions under pressure by practicing realistic automation and troubleshooting cases.
Pre Requisites
- Basic routing and switching familiarity (interfaces, VLANs, IP addressing, routing fundamentals).
- Comfort reading simple Python code and JSON; you do not need to be an expert developer.
- Access to a lab mindset: you should be willing to think in workflows, validation, and rollback steps.
- Understanding of HTTPS, certificates, and authentication basics is helpful but not mandatory.
- Optional: exposure to Cisco controllers (Catalyst Center, SD-WAN, ACI, or Meraki) accelerates context.
- A willingness to learn by repetition; retaking sections is how automation judgment becomes automatic.
FAQ
- Q. How long do I have access to the course materials?
- A. You can view and review the lecture materials indefinitely, like an on-demand channel.
- Q. Can I take my courses with me wherever I go?
- A. Definitely! If you have an internet connection, courses on Udemy are available on any device at any time. If you don't have an internet connection, some instructors also let their students download course lectures. That's up to the instructor though, so make sure you get on their good side!
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