The lab exam tests candidates on solutions that can be developed/configured using the listed equipment and software. Early in your preparation you should arrange access to the listed equipment and software.
Virtual Machines:
Ubuntu Linux: 24.04 LTS
• IOSvL2: 15.2
• IOSv: 15.9
• Cisco Catalyst 8000V: 17.5
• Nexus 9300v (N9Kv): 9.3(8)
• Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller 6.1 w/ ACI Simulator
Candidate Workstation
The candidate workstation is based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Documentation for software will be supplied where available.
The following software is installed on the candidate workstation:
• Ubuntu 24.04 standard GNOME desktop
• Python 3.13.9
• Ansible Core 2.19.3
o cisco.aci collection 2.12.0
• PyCharm Community 2025
• Vim 9.1
• Neovim 0.9.5
• Visual Studio Code 1.105
• Google Chrome
• Docker 28.4.0 + compose plugin 2.39.4
• Terraform 1.13.3
o ciscodevnet/aci v2.17.0
• Git 2.43
• kubectl 1.33
• telnet
• OpenSSH 9.6
• cURL 8.5
• wget 1.21
• netcat
• Bruno 2.13
• Wireshark 4.2
• OpenSSL 3.0
• Nginx 1.24
• Bash
• jq 1.7
• xmllint
• direnv 2.32
• Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) local installation 6.5
• Cisco NSO IOS CLI NED 6.109.4
• Cisco NSO NX-OS CLI NED 5.27.3
• Cisco YANG Suite 3.0
Python Libraries / Packages
The exam uses uv for management of Python virtual environments and dependencies. It is recommended to use it to create a virtual environment similar to the exam. Copy the“pyproject.toml” and “uv.lock” files into a directory and run: uv sync –frozen to create the virtual environment. An auto-generated “requirements.txt” is also provided for manual virtual environment creation without using uv.
Other Third Party Software
• GitLab 18.4
• HashiCorp Vault 1.20
• Telegraf 1.36
• InfluxDB 3.4
• Grafana 12.2
• Kubernetes 1.33
Cloud
• Cisco AppDynamics
• Cisco ThousandEyes
