• Product Portfolio – Nexus 9000 in ACI Mode
• Describing the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switch in ACI Mode
• ACI concepts and principles
• Exploring and understanding APIC Dashboard
• Describing the ACI Fabric Topology
• ACI Policy Model

• Understand Start-up discovery and configuration
• Describe fabric policy
• Describe provisioning
• Describe access policies

• Describe service insertion and redirection
• Implement service graphs
• Configure application profiles specific to Layer 4 to Layer 7 services
• Describe device packages 
• Describe OpFlex 

• AAA RBAC and Roles
• Guidelines and limitations for Device Packages
• Audit Logs
• Understanding APIC Access Methods – GUI, API and CLI
• Understanding Faults and health scores
• Understanding Packet flow through an ACI Fabric 

• Initiate ACI Fabric Discovery 
• Configuring Switch Profile
• Configure Policy Filters and Contracts
• Deploy a Single-Tier Application Profile 
• Register a VMM Domain with ACI 
• Configure VMware ESXi Hosts to Use the APIC DVS
• Associate an EPG to a VMware vCenter Domain
• Deploy a Service Graph with Application Profile
• Associate a VM to an EPG Port Group 
• Configure APIC Using the REST API 
• Exporting Contracts between Tenants

System Engineers, Field Engineers, IT Administrators, Network Engineers, Network Architects, etc. 

CCNA/CCNP or equivalent knowledge and basic understanding of programmability and SDN would be an added advantage.