600-501 NPIBA exam has been retired. 

Exam Number 600-501 NPIBA
Associated Certifications Cisco Business Application Engineer Specialist
Associated Job Role Business Application Engineer
Duration 90 minutes (55 – 65 questions)
Available Languages English
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This exam tests a candidate’s ability to use the programmability of an open infrastructure to develop and deploy business applications. It also tests how well the candidate can build an application with API capabilities to collect information from the network when needed.

Objectives:

21% 1.0 Fundamentals of Networking

1.1 Operation of IP data networks
1.2 LAN switching technologies
1.3 IP addressing (IPv4/IPv6)
1.4 IP services (routing)
1.5 Network data security
1.6 Basic troubleshooting (host perspective)
1.7 Network virtualization
1.8 Network assurance and service-level agreements
1.9 Application-aware networks

27% 2.0 Business Goals

2.1 Business benefits of making applications network aware
2.2 Challenges of making an application network aware

25% 3.0 Cisco ONE Architecture

3.1 Components
3.2 Unified platform

27% 4.0 API Services

4.1 Using APIs
4.2 Incorporating APIs