About 642-972, Data Center Application Services Design

Author: Tyler H Spencer

The DCASD Cisco Data Center Application Services Design exam assesses a candidate's skills and knowledge needed by a sales engineer to articulate and design a platform of Cisco Data Center Application Services.

Topics of the exam

There are topics given below and they are guidelines which are pretty basic for the content that is highly likely to be included in the IT exam. Nonetheless, there exit other related topics and they might also take place of the exam’s specific delivery.

Describe foundational technologies and protocols that are used with DCAS

  1. Describe HTTP.
  2. Describe SSL.
  3. Describe WCCP.
  4. Describe web technologies’ fundamentals.
  5. Describe the N-tier architecture’s fundamentals.
  6. Describe the connection process of TCP.
  7. Describe UDP.
  8. Describe the active vs. passive FTP.
  9. Describe streaming media.
  10. Describe file systems/protocols/applications.
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Perform a system analysis and network

Describe ACE management and monitoring capabilities