GNS3 Certified Associate official course

Fala galera beleza?

Faz um tempo que não falo sobre o GNS3, porém a plataforma anda investindo muito na área de learning e uma novidade que vai chegar no próximo mês é o GNS3 Certified Associate, certificação que irá validar as habilidades dos candidatos na utilização do emulador, além de uma série de funções como a utilização de docker, emulação multivendor, Ansible, SDN e mais.

Equanto a certificação não sai, o site está oferecendo um treinamento completo com o instrutor David Bombal (CCIE Emeritus) sobre os temas cobrados no exame:

Segue os tópicos do treinamento:

Core GNS3 Skills

Explain GNS3 architecture:
GNS3 GUI
GNS3 VM
Local versus remote VMs
Schema (GUI / Web / Controller / Compute / Emulators)
Explain, configure and troubleshoot GNS3 Hypervisor options
VMware Workstation Pro
VMware Workstation Player
Vmware Fusion
VirtualBox
ESXi
QEMU
Describe GNS3 cloud solutions:
Packet.net
Explain and contrast GNS3 device support
Switches
Routers
Firewalls
Servers
Hosts
Explain, configure and troubleshoot device types:
Built-in
Hub
Switch
Cloud options
Network Vendors
Dynamips IOS routers
Cisco IOSv appliance
Cisco IOSvL2 appliance
Arista vEOS appliance
Juniper SRXv appliance
FRRouting appliance
Server / PC appliances
Ubuntu Appliance
Network Automation Appliance
Networker’s Toolkit Appliance
DNS appliance
Other popular GNS3 appliances
Troubleshoot GNS3 installation issues (GUI and VM)
Describe GNS3 best practices
GNS3 GUI
GNS3 VM
Emulation options
Vendor device emulation / simulation options
Describe and use GNS3 programmability options
REST API
cURL
Postman
Python scripts
Bash scripts
Python:

Describe Python terms including:
Objects
Variables
Strings
Integers and floats
Booleans
Operators
Lists
Dictionaries
Tuples
Loops
Conditions
Functions
Explain and troubleshoot Python code snippets including
Text manipulation (split / join / concatenation)
Loops (for / while)
If / else / elseif logic
Describe and verify the Python Telnet library for network device automation
Describe, verify and troubleshoot the use of Netmiko for network device automation
Describe, verify and troubleshoot the use of NAPALM for network device automation

Linux
Describe Linux distributions (Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Mint)
Describe Linux Text editors (vi, nano)
Configure, verify and troubleshoot IPv6 addressing, default gateways and static routes (Ubuntu)
Describe and verify Linux Directory structures (Ubuntu)
Describe file copying, moving and deleting (Ubuntu)
Describe and verify common Linux commands (ls, grep, more, cat, less) (Ubuntu)
Describe and verify Linux Permissions (Ubuntu)
Describe Linux Processes (Ubuntu)
Configure and verify Linux software installation (Ubuntu)
Configure and verify Linux DNS server (dnsmasq)
Configure and verify Linux DNS server (dnsmasq)
Configure and troubleshoot network devices such as Cumulus Linux, Arista, NX9000 and FRR using Linux command

SDN
Describe SDN terms and definitions
Controller functions
Plane separation
Northbound interface (APIs)
Southbound interface (APIs)
NFV
Describe and contrast SDN visions
Open SDN
SDN via Overlays
SDN via APIs
Automation based SDN
Describe SDN protocols
OpenFlow
NETCONF
VxLAN
YANG
Describe and contrast Data Formats
JSON
XML
YAML
Describe source control using Git
Describe APIs
Network Device APIs
REST APIs
Describe and contrast SDN controllers:
Open source SDN controllers (OpenDaylight, ONOS, RYU)
Vendor SDN controllers (NSX, ACI, APIC-EM)
Describe and verify basic OpenFlow switch flows (OVS / Mininet)
OpenFlow 1.0 and 1.3 only
Proactive vs Reactive flows
Pipeline Processing
Match Types
Match Actions
Message types
OpenFlow Ports
Automation Tools

Ansible
Install and configure Ansible for network automation
Describe and contrast agentless vs agent based automation tools
Describe Ansible terms such as Idempotency, Ad Hoc changes, inventory files, plays, tasks and playbooks
Implement and troubleshoot Ansible scripts for network device automation
Describe and contrast Salt, Puppet and Chef


Virtualization technologies
Describe and contrast hypervisors
VMware Workstation Pro
VMware Workstation Player
VMWare Fusion
VirtualBox
QEMU
ESXi
Describe and contrast virtual image types (img, qcow2, iso, ova and vmdk)
Explain virtualization concepts such as nested virtualization, host virtualization, network NIC virtualization, network device sizing and scaling.
Install and configure GNS3 supported hypervisors
Install and configure GNS3 with cloud based providers such as Packet.net

Link:
https://academy.gns3.com/p/gns3-certified-associate/?product_id=850943&coupon_code=BLACKFRIDAY2018

O treinamento está com uma promoção bacana de blacfriday, está por $ 9.00 (vale o valor pelo conteúdo que será explicado), lembrando apenas que o curso é ministrado totalmente em inglês.

Assim que tiver mais noticias sobre a certificação aviso aqui no blog (está em beta testes ainda).

###UPDATE 29/11###

Galera, a prova será lançada dia 03/12 e terá o preço de $129 , o exame contará com 70 questões sendo necessário 80% de acerto para conseguir a certificação, você também terá 90 minutos para realizar a mesma, mais informações:

https://www.gns3.com/community/discussion/gns3-certification-details

Abraços pessoal