Cisco SDWAN Fundamentals

The Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Operation and Deployment (SDWFND) Learning Path provides foundational concepts, business drivers, and an architectural vision of Cisco Catalyst software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN), demonstrating how its core principles enable agile, secure, and cloud-ready WAN solutions to meet modern business demands.

After taking this course, you should be able to:

• Understand foundational concepts, business drivers, and architectural vision of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN to address modern WAN challenges 
• Perform secure controller and WAN Edge onboarding using zero-trust principles and implement secure data plane operations with IPsec and segmentation 
• Configure and verify Overlay Management Protocol (OMP)-based overlay routing, including route advertisement, redistribution, and network segmentation 
• Manage device configurations using Configuration Groups, Feature Profiles, Device Templates, and automation workflows for scalable deployment 
• Design and apply centralized and localized policies, including Quality of Service (QoS) and Application Quality of Experience (AppQoE), and implement Direct Internet Access (DIA) and cloud optimization features

• Enterprise network system installers
• System integrators
• System administrators
• Network administrators
• Solutions designers