The last day to test 600-503 NPDES exam is November 20, 2016.

Exam Number 600-503 NPDES
Associated Certification Cisco Network Programmability Design Specialist
Duration 90 minutes (55 – 65 questions)
Available Languages English
Register Pearson VUE

This exam tests a candidate’s ability to translate customer requirements into an open infrastructure design. Candidates must be able to design the infrastructure itself. In addition, they must demonstrate that they can write functional specifications for developers to use in the creation of network applications that are integrated in an end-to-end architecture.

Objectives:

24% 1.0 Understanding Business Requirements

1.1 Gathering the business requirements
1.2 Risk and impact analysis
1.3 Ongoing communications to finalize business requirements

19% 2.0 Capabilities SDN/Cisco Provide

2.1 Articulate and communicate the value of specific use cases to the business
2.2 Demonstrating the SDN Cisco ONE capabilities

29% 3.0 Translating Business Requirements into Technical Requirements

3.1 Mapping of business applications and infrastructure requirements
3.2 Perform software modeling and analysis
3.3 Perform network modeling and analysis (capacity and performance)
3.4 Translating service level agreements (SLAs) and operational level agreements (OLAs) into technical requirements

28% 4.0 Define System Architecture

4.1 Software architecture and design
4.2 Infrastructure architecture and design (physical and virtual)
4.3 Identify different integration/interoperability points between different systems
4.4 Security and compliance