Course
Name: Developing Applications Using Cisco Core Platforms and APIs (DEVCOR) v1.0

Duration:
5 Days

What
you’ll learn in this course:

The Developing Applications Using Cisco Core Platforms and APIs
(DEVCOR) v1.0 course helps you prepare for Cisco DevNet Professional
certification and for professional-level network automation engineer roles. You
will learn how to implement network applications using Cisco® platforms as a
base, from initial software design to diverse system integration, as well as
testing and deployment automation. The course gives you hands-on experience
solving real world problems using Cisco Application Programming Interfaces
(APIs) and modern development tools.

This course helps you prepare to take the 350-901 Developing
Applications Using Cisco Core Platforms and APIs (DEVCOR) exam. By passing this
exam, you satisfy the core exam requirement toward Cisco Certified DevNet
Professional, and you earn the Cisco Certified DevNet Specialist – Core
certification

How you’ll benefit:

• Take full advantage of the network and software development
  practices when you implement applications to fulfill business needs
• Gain proficiency with applications, automation, and Cisco
  platforms
• Prepare for the 350-901 DEVCOR exam, which satisfies the
  core exam requirement toward Cisco Certified DevNet Professional, and
  earns Cisco Certified DevNet Specialist – Core

Who should enroll:

This
course is designed for anyone who performs or seeks to perform a developer role
and has one or more years of hands-on experience developing and maintaining
applications that are built on top of Cisco platforms.

This
course covers specialized material about designing, developing, and debugging
applications using Cisco APIs and platforms, and managing and deploying
applications on Cisco infrastructure. To fully benefit from this course, you
should have three to five years of experience designing and implementing
applications that are built on top of Cisco platforms.

The
course is appropriate for:

• Network engineers expanding their skill-base to include software
  and automation
• Developers expanding expertise in automation and DevOps
• Solution architects moving to the Cisco ecosystem
• Infrastructure developers designing hardened production
  environments

The
job roles best suited to the material in this course are:

• Senior network automation engineer
• Senior software developer
• Senior system integration programmer

Additional
job roles that could find this course useful are:

• Senior infrastructure architect
• Senior network designer
• Senior test development engineer

Students
preparing for Cisco Certified DevNet Professional and Cisco Certified DevNet
Specialist – Core certification will also find this material useful.

Course
Objectives:

After
taking this course, you should be able to:

• Describe the architectural traits and patterns that improve
  application maintainability
• Describe the architectural traits and patterns that improve
  application serviceability
• Identify steps to design and build a ChatOps application
• Implement robust Representational State Transfer (REST) API
  integrations with network error handling, pagination, and error flow control
• Describe the necessary steps for securing user and system data in
  applications
• Describe the necessary steps for securing applications
• Identify common tasks in automated application release process
• Describe best practices for application deployment
• Describe methodologies for designing distributed systems
• Describe the concepts of infrastructure configuration management
  and device automation
• Utilize Yet Another Next Generation (YANG) data models to describe
  network configurations and telemetry
• Compare various relational and nonrelational database types and
  how to select the appropriate type based on requirements

Course Prerequisites:

There
are no formal prerequisites for Cisco Certified DevNet Associate certification,
but you should make sure to have a good understanding of the exam topics before
taking the exam.

Before
taking this course, you should have:

• Knowledge of program design and coding with focus on Python
• Familiarity with Ethernet, TCP/IP, and Internet-related networking
• Understand the utilization of APIs
• Understanding of software development and design methodologies
• Hands-on experience with a programming language (specifically
  Python)

Here
are Cisco learning resources that can help you prepare:

• Developing Applications and Automating Workflows Using Cisco Core
  Platforms (DEVASC)
• Explore the DevNet Certification area for specific topics and labs
  related to this course and certification: https://developer.cisco.com/certification/

Course Outline:

This class includes lecture sections and self-study sections. In
instructor-led classes, lectures are delivered in real-time, either in person
or via video conferencing. In e-learning courses, the lectures are on recorded
videos. In both versions, you will need to review self-study sections on your
own before taking the certification exam.

• Designing for Maintainability (Self-study)
• Designing for Serviceability (Self-study)
• Implementing ChatOps Application (Lecture)
• Describing Advanced REST API Integration (Lecture)
• Securing Application Data (Self-study)
• Securing Web and Mobile Applications (Self-study)
• Automating Application-Release (Lecture)
• Deploying Applications (Lecture)
• Understanding Distributed Systems (Lecture)
• Orchestrating Network and Infrastructure (Lecture)
• Modeling Data with YANG (Lecture)
• Using Relational and Non-Relational Databases (Self-study)

Labs Outline:

• Construct Sequence Diagram
• Construct Web Sequence Diagram
• Use Cisco Webex Teams™ API to Enable ChatOps
• Integrate Cisco Meraki™ API to List Service Set Identifiers
  (SSIDs) and Retrieve Location Data
• Use Paginated REST API Endpoint
• Utilize REST API Error Control Flow Techniques
• Evaluate Application for Common Open Web Application Security
  Project (OWASP) Vulnerabilities
• Resolve Merge Conflicts with Git
• Diagnose Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
  Pipeline Failures
• Containerize Application Using Docker
• Integrate Application into Existing CI/CD Environment
• Diagnose Problems Using Application Logs
• Configure Network Parameters Using Ansible and Puppet
• Synchronize Firepower Device Configuration
• Utilize RESTCONF for Network Configuration
• Query Relational Database
• Query Document Store
• Query Time Series Database
• Query Graph Database