300-910
Implementing DevOps Solutions and Practices using Cisco Platforms (DEVOPS)
300-910 DEVOPS Exam Guide: Scope, Status, Skills, and Preparation Decisions
Cisco 300-910 DEVOPS validated the ability to implement DevOps solutions and practices using Cisco platforms, with emphasis on deployment automation for cloud microservices and infrastructure processes. It served candidates pursuing the Cisco Certified DevNet Professional or Cisco Certified DevNet Specialist–DevOps certifications. The key decision is now whether you are researching a completed certification path or need a current replacement: Cisco lists February 2, 2026, as the last day to test, and says the DevNet certifications evolved to the CCNA, CCNP, and CCIE Automation track effective February 3, 2026.
Can you still schedule 300-910?
No. Cisco lists February 2, 2026, as the last day to test for 300-910 DEVOPS. Cisco also states that retired exams are no longer available for certifying or recertifying, although certifications earned through retired exams remain valid until their individual expiration dates. Verify your personal certification record rather than assuming an earned credential ended when the exam retired.
The practical consequence is important: this is no longer a normal booking-and-preparation guide for a live exam. Use the 300-910 blueprint to understand the skills it represented, review it when interpreting an existing DevNet credential, or use its subject areas to inform research into Cisco’s current Automation-track requirements. Do not spend money or study time looking for a new 300-910 appointment.
What changed after retirement
Cisco announced that DevNet certifications evolved to the CCNA, CCNP, and CCIE Automation track effective February 3, 2026. That announcement establishes the direction of the certification family, but it does not by itself provide the complete requirements, domains, delivery details, or preparation materials for each current Automation certification. Consult Cisco’s current certification pages before selecting a replacement path.
What remains useful in this guide
The former blueprint is still useful as a skills map. It identifies work around CI/CD pipelines, packaging and delivery, and infrastructure automation. Those subjects can help you organize practical learning, evaluate whether your experience is relevant, and identify which current Cisco materials deserve closer review. They should not be treated as proof that the same objectives or weighting apply to a current exam.
What did 300-910 validate?
300-910 was titled “Implementing DevOps Solutions and Practices using Cisco Platforms.” Cisco described it as testing DevOps practices involving deployment automation for automated configuration, management, and scalability of cloud microservices and infrastructure processes on Cisco platforms. In practical terms, the exam’s purpose was to connect software delivery activity with repeatable infrastructure and application operations.
The exam was associated with the Cisco Certified DevNet Professional and Cisco Certified DevNet Specialist–DevOps certifications. That association explains why preparation needed to cover more than an isolated tool: the published objectives joined pipeline behavior, container packaging, infrastructure automation, testing, deployment strategy, and operational scaling.
Who the subject matter suited
The blueprint was most relevant to candidates working across development and operations boundaries: people who needed to automate builds and releases, package services, manage infrastructure as code, or reason about scalable microservice delivery on Cisco platforms. The official sources do not establish a separate prerequisite or experience requirement here, so do not infer one from the topic list.
A sensible self-assessment is task-based. Can you explain how a change moves from source through validation and deployment? Can you identify where secrets belong, distinguish application packaging from infrastructure provisioning, and select an automation approach for a repeatable environment? Gaps in those answers indicate study priorities, even though the exam itself is retired.
What the title tells you—and what it does not
The title points to implementation rather than a purely conceptual survey. It does not mean every named product, command, or workflow is equally important, and the available sources do not provide a complete product-by-product list. Study the relationships between delivery automation, packaged applications, and infrastructure automation instead of memorizing disconnected terminology.
Which domains carried the most published weight?
The published blueprint assigned 20% to the CI/CD Pipeline domain, 15% to the Packaging and Delivery of Applications domain, and 20% to the Automating Infrastructure domain. These are the specific weights supported by the supplied Cisco sources; the available evidence does not provide a complete set of all domain weights, so do not present these three percentages as a complete 100% breakdown.
Because 300-910 is retired, the weights should now be read as historical prioritization rather than a current scheduling formula. If you are using the blueprint for skills development, begin with the two 20% domains and then use the 15% packaging domain to reinforce the application-delivery connection.
CI/CD Pipeline: 20%
The CI/CD Pipeline domain was weighted at 20%. Its objectives included build and deployment tools, pipeline sequencing and integrations, troubleshooting, testing, canary or blue/green deployment strategies, rollbacks, and dependency management.
Study this domain as a flow, not a glossary. Draw a pipeline with explicit stages, then annotate what each stage consumes, validates, produces, and passes to the next stage. Add a failure path: a failed test, an integration problem, a dependency mismatch, and an unsuccessful deployment should each have a defined response. This exercise builds reasoning about sequencing and recovery without relying on memorized question patterns.
Your practical checkpoint is the ability to explain why an operation belongs at a particular stage. For example, pre-deployment validation should prevent an unsafe change from progressing, while rollback planning addresses what happens after a release has already reached a target environment. Keep those decisions separate when reviewing notes.
Packaging and Delivery of Applications: 15%
The Packaging and Delivery of Applications domain was weighted at 15%. Its objectives included containerizing applications, deploying multiple microservices, evaluating container architectures, handling secrets, constructing Dockerfiles, and using golden images.
A productive lab sequence starts with a small application container, then adds a second service and documents their interface and deployment relationship. Review the Dockerfile line by line: identify the base image, copied artifacts, startup behavior, and anything that could make the image unnecessarily difficult to reproduce. Then examine where configuration and secrets are supplied, keeping confidential values out of the image itself as a study practice.
Do not treat “containerized” as the end state. The objective list also required architectural evaluation and multi-service delivery. Compare the operational consequences of packaging one service with coordinating several services, and record how image provenance, configuration, and release sequencing affect the result.
Automating Infrastructure: 20%
The Automating Infrastructure domain was weighted at 20%. Its objectives included Ansible, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pre-check validation, NetDevOps, and application or service scaling requirements.
Separate the concerns before studying the tools. Infrastructure as Code describes the repeatable declaration and management of infrastructure; Ansible and Terraform are named technologies in the objectives, but the useful preparation question is what each workflow is expected to automate and how changes are reviewed and applied. Connect those concepts to pre-check validation, network automation, and scaling requirements.
Use a small, disposable environment or a carefully controlled simulation to practice the lifecycle: define the desired state, validate inputs, review the proposed change, apply it, and record the resulting state. Then add a scaling requirement and ask what must change in the application, service, or infrastructure definition. This sequence is more durable than learning isolated syntax.
How should you study the three published skill areas?
Organize preparation around one delivery story: source change, pipeline validation, application packaging, infrastructure provisioning, deployment, scaling, and recovery. This prevents the domains from becoming separate tool lists. Since the exam is retired, the goal is no longer to match a live score report; it is to build a defensible understanding of the blueprint and choose current Cisco training based on verified requirements.
Start by translating each objective into an observable action. “Understand containers” is too vague; “construct a Dockerfile, explain its runtime behavior, and identify configuration boundaries” is testable. “Know CI/CD” is also vague; “sequence build, test, deployment, rollback, and dependency checks and explain failure handling” gives you a concrete study target.
Phase one: establish the boundary
Read the official exam overview and the current retirement notice first. Record the exam title, historical certification associations, retirement status, and the distinction between an earned certification’s validity and the availability of the exam for new certification or recertification. This prevents you from preparing for an appointment that Cisco no longer offers.
Next, download or review the official topic documents and mark each objective as familiar, explainable, or unpracticed. Do not mark an item complete merely because you recognize its name. A useful completion standard is that you can describe the purpose, inputs, outputs, failure modes, and operational trade-offs of the item in your own words.
Phase two: build the delivery model
Create a single reference architecture on paper or in a controlled lab. It should include a containerized application, multiple services, a CI/CD sequence, infrastructure defined through automation, validation before deployment, and a scaling decision. The architecture need not reproduce an undocumented Cisco environment; its purpose is to make dependencies and handoffs visible.
For every component, write four notes: what changes it controls, what evidence confirms it worked, what can fail, and how you would recover. This exposes shallow familiarity quickly. A pipeline step without an input, a container without a configuration plan, or an infrastructure definition without a state or validation discussion deserves further study.
Phase three: rehearse explanation and diagnosis
Use scenario prompts rather than attempting to reconstruct live exam content. Ask yourself why a pipeline should stop, how a dependency problem would be isolated, when a canary or blue/green approach changes the release risk, how a rollback would be initiated, and which scaling requirement belongs to the application or to its infrastructure.
Keep a defect log. For each mistake, record the mistaken assumption, the objective it relates to, the evidence that corrected it, and a small follow-up exercise. Re-reading a glossary rarely fixes a sequencing or troubleshooting weakness; a targeted reconstruction of the failed workflow is more useful.
Phase four: confirm the next certification path
Before investing in a replacement exam course, compare the current Cisco Automation-track information with your role and existing certification status. Cisco’s announcement identifies the CCNA, CCNP, and CCIE Automation track, but the supplied research does not establish which current exam is a one-for-one successor to 300-910. Treat successor mapping as a verification task, not an assumption.
Save the official page you used, note the publication date if shown there, and check the current exam topics before scheduling. Certification structures can change, and the historical 300-910 blueprint cannot establish current prices, delivery methods, prerequisites, languages, or scoring.
What historical delivery details are verified?
Cisco’s historical exam overview listed English as the available exam language and stated a duration of 90 minutes. Those details describe the former 300-910 exam and should not be used to plan a current booking, because Cisco lists the exam as retired and unavailable for certifying or recertifying.
The overview also states that the first date to test was February 24, 2020. That date is historical context only. It does not indicate availability, a renewal window, or a current version. The retirement notice is the relevant source for the final testing boundary.
What the sources do not establish
The supplied official research does not establish a current registration price, delivery channel, question count, question formats, passing score, testing-center policy, online-proctoring policy, prerequisite, or retake rule for 300-910. Do not fill those gaps with catalogue listings or assumptions from another Cisco exam.
Likewise, do not infer that a current Automation-track exam has the same 90-minute duration, English availability, domain weights, or objectives. Confirm each current detail on the relevant Cisco page before making a scheduling decision.
Which preparation mistakes should you avoid?
The most damaging mistake now is treating 300-910 as an active exam. The next is treating its blueprint as a complete current certification specification. Avoid both by separating three records: what Cisco historically published for 300-910, what Cisco says about retirement, and what Cisco currently requires for the Automation track.
A third mistake is studying tools without tracing an end-to-end change. CI/CD, containers, and infrastructure automation are connected by handoffs. If your notes never show what is validated, packaged, deployed, scaled, or rolled back, they are unlikely to support sound implementation reasoning.
Mistake: relying on bare percentages
Write the domain name beside every percentage in your notes: CI/CD Pipeline was 20%, Packaging and Delivery of Applications was 15%, and Automating Infrastructure was 20%. Bare percentages are easy to misread, especially when the available source excerpt does not show every domain. Keep the official label attached whenever you use a weight for prioritization.
Mistake: memorizing product names
Ansible and Terraform appear in the Automating Infrastructure objectives, but naming them is not the same as understanding infrastructure automation. Explain the problem each activity addresses, how it fits into a controlled workflow, and what validation or scaling requirement surrounds it. Apply the same rule to Dockerfiles, golden images, deployment tools, and pipeline strategies.
Mistake: ignoring recovery
The CI/CD objectives explicitly included troubleshooting, canary or blue/green deployment strategies, and rollbacks. A study plan that covers only the successful release path is incomplete. Add failure branches to every workflow and explain what evidence would tell you whether to fix forward, stop the pipeline, or roll back.
Mistake: using unauthorized exam material
Do not rely on exam dumps, leaked questions, or claims that memorization guarantees a pass. They cannot replace official objectives and practical understanding, and they are especially unreliable when an exam has retired. Use Cisco’s published topics, documentation, and legitimate hands-on practice instead.
How can you turn the blueprint into a weekly plan?
Use a short cycle of reading, building, explaining, and reviewing rather than assigning an arbitrary number of study hours. In the first cycle, map the objectives; in the second, build the integrated workflow; in the third, diagnose failures and explain trade-offs; in the final cycle, verify whether your next step is a current Cisco certification rather than 300-910.
The sequence below is a practical recommendation, not an official Cisco schedule. Adjust it to your background and access to practice environments.
Cycle one: map and prioritize
Begin with the official topic sources. Create three columns for CI/CD Pipeline, Packaging and Delivery of Applications, and Automating Infrastructure. Under each, list the named objectives and write a one-sentence definition in your own words.
Give first attention to the CI/CD Pipeline domain weighted at 20% and the Automating Infrastructure domain weighted at 20%, then address the Packaging and Delivery of Applications domain weighted at 15%. This is a historical blueprint-based order, not a prediction of a current exam.
Cycle two: build one connected workflow
Construct the smallest workflow that demonstrates the relationships: package an application, represent its infrastructure through automation, validate a proposed change, run a build and deployment sequence, and document how multiple services would be released. If a full lab is unavailable, use diagrams, configuration excerpts, and explicit step-by-step reasoning, but label assumptions clearly.
At the end of this cycle, explain the workflow without looking at your notes. Any step you can name but cannot justify becomes a targeted review item.
Cycle three: add risk and recovery
Introduce a bad dependency, a failed test, an invalid infrastructure change, and an unhealthy deployment into your practice scenarios. For each, identify the detection point, the information you would inspect, the action that prevents wider impact, and the recovery path.
Review canary and blue/green strategies as deployment decisions rather than vocabulary. State what changes between the approaches, what evidence you would monitor, and how rollback considerations affect the release design. Keep the exercise tied to the objective wording rather than inventing unsupported exam scenarios.
Cycle four: make the next action official
Check Cisco’s retirement notice and current Automation-track information again. If your goal was to earn a new certification, stop using 300-910 as the scheduling target and select the current route only after verifying its official objectives and requirements. If you already hold a related certification, check its individual expiration and recertification status in Cisco’s systems.
Keep your old 300-910 notes as historical study material, but label them with the exam’s retired status and the date boundary Cisco published. That simple label prevents accidental reuse of obsolete delivery details.
What should you do next?
First, confirm whether your goal is an existing credential, historical skills review, or a new Cisco certification. For an existing credential, check its individual expiration date. For a new credential, use Cisco’s current Automation-track information rather than attempting to schedule 300-910. For skills development, use the former blueprint to structure practice around pipelines, packaging, and infrastructure automation.
Then choose one concrete action: verify your certification record, read the current official certification requirements, or build the integrated workflow described above. A clear next action is more useful than continuing to collect retired-exam summaries.
A final self-check
You are using the historical blueprint responsibly if you can state the exam’s retirement status, distinguish its former requirements from current Cisco requirements, name the three supported weighted domains with their labels, and explain how a code change travels through packaging, validation, infrastructure automation, deployment, scaling, and recovery.
You are ready to investigate a current path when you can also identify what remains unknown and locate the official Cisco page that answers it. That habit—checking the authoritative, current requirement instead of extending an old assumption—is the most important scheduling decision this retired exam now requires.
Conclusion
300-910 DEVOPS is a historical Cisco exam, not a current appointment option. Its official objectives still provide a useful map of DevOps implementation work: CI/CD Pipeline was weighted at 20%, Packaging and Delivery of Applications at 15%, and Automating Infrastructure at 20%. Use those labeled domains to organize practical learning, but verify every requirement for the current CCNA, CCNP, or CCIE Automation track directly with Cisco before choosing a new certification or booking an exam.
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