Cisco / Network automation / 350-901

Master the network automation core

Advance to designing, deploying, securing, and operating network automation systems, including infrastructure as code and AI-assisted operations. AUTOCOR alone earns a Specialist credential; CCNP Automation also needs a concentration.

Recommended prior milestone · no formal prerequisite

Check your 200-901 foundation

Cisco lists no formal prerequisite. Use this checkpoint to identify gaps before the more advanced route.

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Core learning

Follow the current official objectives

  1. 1.Automation system architecture and design
  2. 2.Software development and APIs
  3. 3.Infrastructure as code
  4. 4.Deployment, security, and operations
  5. 5.Observability and reliability
  6. 6.AI in network automation
Official exam and training resources ↗Current certification requirements ↗

Hands-on consolidation

Build and troubleshoot in an isolated lab

Build a versioned automation pipeline for a simulated network: source of truth, schema validation, tests, approval, deployment, telemetry, rollback, secrets handling, and an AI-assisted step with explicit human review and measurable safeguards.

Ready when…

You can design an automation system with controlled state, testing, observability, rollback, least privilege, and clear boundaries for AI-assisted decisions.

Practice and review

Find gaps with our 350-901 test

75 original, source-backed questions; the first 7 are free. Pair knowledge review with the practical lab above.

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