350-501 SPCOR practice examsIn development
Cisco Certified Network Professional Service Provider
The Cisco carrier stack on IOS XR and XE: a core carrying many customers with the IGP confined to infrastructure and loopbacks, BGP scaled through route reflectors with hidden routes tracing to unreachable next hops, and MPLS forwarding on labels with LDP, RSVP-TE traffic engineering and segment routing steering traffic; then Layer 3 VPNs isolating customers with VRFs, route distinguishers and route targets, Layer 2 pseudowires and multipoint VPLS or EVPN, DiffServ QoS meeting service agreements, multicast inside VPNs, and the NETCONF, gRPC and streaming model-driven telemetry that operate the network programmatically.
What you get
Papers are cut from the bank and weighted like the real exam, and no question appears in two of them. Every wrong answer comes back on later days until you have it right.
What the exam covers
| Provider routing, IS-IS, BGP and MPLS | Not published |
| VPN services, QoS, multicast and automation | Not published |
Two sample questions
1. Which is a reason to verify changes incrementally in the core?
- The effect of each change can be isolated — correct
- The change is applied faster than in bulk
- Fewer commands have to be typed overall
- Rollback becomes unnecessary once it passes
Why: Verifying changes incrementally isolates the effect of each change.
2. Which is a reason to align automation with change management?
- Changes are applied rather faster than they otherwise would
- Changes stay controlled, and can be audited afterwards — correct
- Changes no longer have to be tested before deployment
- Changes are rolled back automatically whenever they fail
Why: Aligning automation with change management gives controlled, auditable changes.
The real 350-501 SPCOR exam
| Length | 120 minutes |
|---|---|
| Questions | Around 90 to 110 |
| Pass mark | Scaled; Cisco does not publish the percentage |
| Price | $400 USD for the core exam |
| Recommended before you sit it | None enforced. The professional certification requires a core and a concentration exam. |
| Valid for | 3 years |
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