350-901 (DEVCOR) DevNet Professional Core Exam Test

Exam DEVCOR (350- 901) Developing Applications using Cisco Core Platforms and APIs is a 120-minute exam associated with the DevNet Professional Certification. This exam tests a candidate's knowledge of software development and design including using APIs, Cisco platforms, application deployment and security, and infrastructure and automation.

Exam topics for 350-901 (DEVCOR) :-

Software Development and Design (20%)

• Describe distributed applications related to the concepts of front-end, back-end, and load balancing

• Evaluate an application design considering scalability and modularity

• Evaluate an application design considering high-availability and resiliency (including on-premises, hybrid, and cloud)

• Evaluate an application design considering latency and rate limiting

• Evaluate an application design and implementation considering maintainability

• Evaluate an application design and implementation considering observability

• Diagnose problems with an application given logs related to an event

• Evaluate choice of database types with respect to application requirements (such as relational, document, graph, columnar, and Time Series)

• Explain architectural patterns (monolithic, services oriented, microservices, and event driven)

• Utilize advanced version control operations with Git

• Explain the concepts of release packaging and dependency management

• Construct a sequence diagram that includes API calls

Using APIs (20%)

• Implement robust REST API error handling for time outs and rate limits

• Implement control flow of consumer code for unrecoverable REST API errors

• Identify ways to optimize API usage through HTTP cache controls

• Construct an application that consumes a REST API that supports pagination

• Describe the steps in the OAuth2 three-legged authorization code grant flow

Cisco Platforms (20%)

• Construct API requests to implement chatops with Webex Teams API

• Construct API requests to create and delete objects using Firepower device management (FDM)

• Construct API requests using the Meraki platform to accomplish these tasks

• Use Meraki Dashboard APIs to enable an SSID

• Use Meraki location APIs to retrieve location data

• Construct API calls to retrieve data from Intersight

• Construct a Python script using the UCS APIs to provision a new UCS server given a template

• Construct a Python script using the Cisco DNA center APIs to retrieve and display wireless health information

• Describe the capabilities of AppDynamics when instrumenting an application

• Describe steps to build a custom dashboard to present data collected from Cisco APIs

Application Deployment and Security (20%)

• Diagnose a CI/CD pipeline failure (such as missing dependency, incompatible versions of components, and failed tests)

• Integrate an application into a prebuilt CD environment leveraging Docker and Kubernetes

• Describe the benefits of continuous testing and static code analysis in a CI pipeline

• Utilize Docker to containerize an application

• Describe the tenets of the "12-factor app"

• Describe an effective logging strategy for an application

• Explain data privacy concerns related to storage and transmission of data

• Identify the secret storage approach relevant to a given scenario

• Configure application specific SSL certificates

• Implement mitigation strategies for OWASP threats (such as XSS, CSRF, and SQL injection)

• Describe how end-to-end encryption principles apply to APIs

Infrastructure and Automation (20%)

• Explain considerations of model-driven telemetry (including data consumption and data storage)

• Utilize RESTCONF to configure a network device including interfaces, static routes, and VLANs (IOS XE only)

• Construct a workflow to configure network parameters with:

• Ansible playbook

• Puppet manifest

• Identify a configuration management solution to achieve technical and business requirements

• Describe how to host an application on a network device (including Catalyst 9000 and Cisco IOx-enabled devices)

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