Cisco Catalyst Center Foundations (CCFND) Training Course
Length
5 days / 5 weeks
Price
$5999
Days
Mon - Fri
Why Choose This Course
Cisco Catalyst Center Foundations (CCFND) is an instructor-led training course that builds practical, job-ready skills for planning, deploying, and operating Cisco Catalyst Center in modern enterprise networks. It starts with the platform’s purpose, architecture, and core use cases, then moves into how to automate common tasks, assure performance with analytics, and strengthen security by integrating Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE). You work with real workflows that network teams use every day.
In practice, you’ll learn how Catalyst Center supports intent-based networking across wired and wireless, helps standardise device provisioning, and uses AI-driven assurance to surface issues before they affect users. The course also explains high availability and scalability options such as clustering and link redundancy, so you can design for resilience from day one.
The course also covers how Catalyst Center integrates with ISE for policy-based segmentation and how it maps to Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) concepts like fabric roles, underlay and overlay routing, and group-based policies. If you previously worked with Cisco DNA Center, you’ll recognise the capabilities under the updated Catalyst Center name. A certificate of course attendance is included.
Prerequisites
- There are no formal prerequisites for this course.
Exam
Books
Delivery
- Live virtual online training attend in real-time from anywhere
Skills Gained
- Explain Catalyst Center architecture, key features, and intent-based networking concepts.
- Plan pre-deployment requirements and perform first-time setup of Catalyst Center.
- Configure system settings, role-based access, and operational policies.
- Discover and onboard devices; manage inventory and device reachability.
- Build and apply automation templates for consistent device configuration.
- Use software image management to standardise and upgrade device images.
- Validate changes and troubleshoot with assurance dashboards and AI-driven insights.
- Monitor device, client, and application health to reduce meantime to resolution.
- Integrate Catalyst Center with Cisco ISE to enforce policy-based segmentation.
- Describe SD-Access fabric roles, underlay and overlay routing, and policy models.
- Assess high availability and scalability options such as clustering and link redundancy.
- Run compliance audits and remediate configuration drift.
- Leverage platform APIs and webhooks for integrations and automation pipelines.
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Course Schedule & Pricing
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Outline
- Catalyst Center product overview and use cases
- Intent-based networking fundamentals in the enterprise
- System architecture and services
- Pre-deployment requirements and sizing considerations
- First-time setup and onboarding workflow
- High availability, clustering, and link redundancy
- Scalability patterns and disaster recovery options
- System settings, users, roles, and access control
- Inventory, discovery, and device manageability
- Compliance audits and configuration drift remediation
- Design templates and variables for repeatable changes
- Day-0 onboarding with Plug and Play (PnP)
- Software Image Management (SWIM) and upgrade workflows
- Advanced automation scenarios and golden templates
- Device, client, and application health analytics
- Issues, insights, and trends for proactive operations
- Wireless monitoring and troubleshooting techniques
- Integrating Catalyst Center with Cisco ISE
- SD-Access overview: fabric roles, underlay and overlay routing
- Policy-based segmentation: group-based, IP-based, and application policies
- Catalyst Center platform overview and data models
- APIs, webhooks, and external tool integration patterns
- Migration considerations from Cisco Prime Infrastructure
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