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DELL TECHNOLOGIESDell SONiC Deploy
The Dell SONiC Deploy certification validates your ability to deploy, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Enterprise SONiC Distribution by Dell Technologies. It is designed for implementation specialists and systems engineers who work with Dell networking solutions in data center environments. Earning this credential demonstrates hands-on expertise in SONiC installation, configuration, routing, VXLAN, and QoS — skills that keep modern networks agile and reliable.
Exam formatProctored exam
DeliveryPearson VUE
Free questions440
Content last reviewed 30 July 2026 · Up to date
The certification
What Dell SONiC Deploy proves, and what it asks of you
What this certification covers, who it is written for, and what the exam itself looks like on the day.
6domains
24objectives
134concepts
What it is
What this certification is
What it validates, who it is written for, and the experience it assumes.
About this certification
The Dell SONiC Deploy certification validates the intermediate-level skills required to deploy, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Enterprise SONiC Distribution by Dell Technologies. It is built for professionals who implement and support Dell networking solutions in data center environments, covering everything from initial installation to advanced network services.
Candidates who earn this credential demonstrate practical proficiency in SONiC installation and upgrade methods, port configuration, VLANs, link aggregation, routing protocols such as OSPF and BGP, VXLAN with BGP EVPN, and QoS features. The certification confirms that you can manage the full lifecycle of a Dell SONiC-based network, ensuring performance, resilience, and operational efficiency.
Who it’s for
This certification is intended for implementation specialists, storage implementation engineers, and systems engineers who are responsible for deploying and maintaining Dell Enterprise SONiC Distribution in enterprise data center networks. Ideal candidates have hands-on experience with Dell networking hardware and are comfortable working with Linux-based network operating systems, command-line interfaces, and network protocols such as OSPF, BGP, and VXLAN.
Recommended experience
Dell recommends completing the relevant training and gaining hands-on experience with Enterprise SONiC Distribution before attempting the exam. Familiarity with Dell networking hardware and the SONiC operating system; Experience with network protocols including OSPF, BGP, and VXLAN; Understanding of data center networking concepts and best practices
The syllabus
What you’ll learn
Every domain and objective Dell Technologies measures, with the weight they carry on the exam.
The official Dell Technologies exam outline · checked 30 July 2026 · See the source
SONiC Bundles
- Compare Enterprise SONiC bundles
SONiC Installation
- Compare SONiC installation, upgrade, and downgrade methods
- Install SONiC using the ONIE manual method
- Install SONiC using the ONIE automatic method
- Configure and verify the operation of ZTP
SONiC Configuration
- Interface Configuration
- Link Aggregation and Redundancy
- VLAN Services
- Management Access
Routing
- Administer L3 IP addressing on Ethernet ports
- Configure and verify static routing
- Configure and verify a single area OSPF topology
- Describe BGP operations
- Describe Equal Cost Multi-Pathing
- Configure and verify BGP
- Outline the operation of route redistribution
- Configure PBR
VXLAN
- Describe the VXLAN operation
- Describe the operation of Asymmetric IRB
- Configure and verify BGP EVPN with Asymmetric IRB
- Describe the operation of Symmetric IRB
- Configure ad verify BGP EVPN with Symmetric IRB
QoS
- Describe the operation of QoS
- Configure and verify QoS features
On the day
The exam itself
Everything Dell Technologies publishes about sitting it, and nothing we inferred.
Prerequisites
No mandatory prerequisites — this certification has no required predecessor exam or credential.
CertificationDell SONiC Deploy
Exam formatProctored exam
DeliveryPearson VUE
LanguagesEnglish, French
After you pass
Where this credential goes next
The path Dell Technologies lays out, how the credential is kept, and where to book.
Step-by-step path to Dell SONiC Deploy
Credential earnedDell SONiC Deploy Certification Lifecycle status
This certification is currently active and available. Dell Technologies maintains this certification to validate current skills and industry relevance.
Exam status: ActiveMaintained by Dell Technologies
Exam registration
Register for the exam through Pearson VUE, Dell Technologies’s authorized testing partner.
Schedule your examVisit the official Dell Technologies certification page for exam policies and requirements.
View the official pageYour coach
And when you are serious, your coach Pip takes over
Your coach in the app reads what you have answered with the book closed and tells you one thing to do tonight. It will not count an answer you gave with the page open, and it will tell you when you are not ready.
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Questions people ask
Is the SONiC Deploy exam proctored?
Yes. The SONiC Deploy exam is a proctored exam administered through Pearson VUE testing centers and OnVUE online proctoring.
Are practice tests available for the SONiC Deploy exam?
Yes. Dell offers unproctored web-based practice tests that you can take to prepare for the exam. Practice tests are not available for Achievements.
How do I schedule the SONiC Deploy exam?
You can schedule the exam through Pearson VUE using an exam voucher code. The official Dell page outlines a journey that includes requesting a digital exam voucher and then scheduling the exam with that code.
What job roles does the SONiC Deploy certification map to?
The certification targets implementation specialists, storage implementation engineers, and systems engineers who deploy and maintain Dell Enterprise SONiC Distribution.
Can I earn a digital badge for the SONiC Deploy certification?
Yes. After passing the exam, you can claim a digital badge through Credly to showcase your certification on professional networks.
How is my SONiC Deploy certification tracked?
Your certification is tracked in CertTracker, where you can access, manage, and maintain your Dell Technologies Proven Professional credentials.
Information freshness · Content last reviewed on 2026-07-30 Up to date
Practice free questions 440 questions, free, no account needed.
The curriculum
The whole exam, mapped and written
Every domain, every objective, and every concept Dell Technologies measures — each one written out.
6domains
24objectives
134concepts
97free pages
The domains, and what sits inside them
Every objective below is a page you can open and practise now, without an account.
The official Dell Technologies exam outline · checked 30 July 2026 · See the source
1SONiC Bundles19 questions
2SONiC Installation95 questions
3SONiC Configuration58 questions
4Routing139 questions
Administer L3 IP addressing on Ethernet ports5 concepts · 4 pagesOpen →Configure and verify static routing5 concepts · 2 pagesOpen →Configure and verify a single area OSPF topology7 concepts · 3 pagesOpen →Describe BGP operations10 concepts · 6 pagesOpen →Describe Equal Cost Multi-Pathing5 concepts · 2 pagesOpen →Configure and verify BGP7 concepts · 4 pagesOpen →Outline the operation of route redistribution6 concepts · 4 pagesOpen →Configure PBR6 concepts · 5 pagesOpen →
5VXLAN99 questions
Describe the VXLAN operation6 concepts · 5 pagesOpen →Describe the operation of Asymmetric IRB6 concepts · 3 pagesOpen →Configure and verify BGP EVPN with Asymmetric IRB7 concepts · 5 pagesOpen →Describe the operation of Symmetric IRB7 concepts · 5 pagesOpen →Configure ad verify BGP EVPN with Symmetric IRB8 concepts · 4 pagesOpen →
Not a table of contents
Every line on this map already opens
In front of every objective the practice pages are already there, free and without an account. This is one objective, opened.
Compare Enterprise SONiC bundles4 pagesOpen →
Free in front of it
19 questions on this objective, five to a page. Every range above is a real page, open now, with no account.
Reading the map is not the same as knowing the ground
The curriculum tells you what is on the exam. Proving you know it is a different job — and it is the one the closed-book run does.
Free questions
440 questions. No account, no card.
The whole bank is open. 5 questions to a page, every answer explained, and a discussion thread on each one.
440questions
97pages
24objectives
Freealways
Browse by domain
Every objective, and every page range, is a link — so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
1SONiC Bundles19 questions
2SONiC Installation95 questions
3SONiC Configuration58 questions
4Routing139 questions
What a practice page gives you
1Five to a page
Short enough to finish, long enough to matter.
2Every answer explained
Not only which one is right — why the others are wrong.
3A discussion on each
Ask, answer, and vote. Every question has its own thread.
A question, and the idea behind it
Every question comes from a concept
These are not trivia. Each one is written against a concept in the book, so when you get one wrong there is somewhere to go and find out why.
The visual book
See it once. Carry it into the exam.
The pages shown here come from our AI-900 book — an example of how each concept is written in plain language and, where the idea needs one, drawn as a full page you can take in at a glance.
134concepts
440free questions
Why a picture, and not another paragraph
Three reasons, and each one is a real finding rather than a slogan.
You can see it againThe whole idea at onceWhere it starts, what happens in the middle, what comes out, and the mistake to avoid.
Multimedia principle · MayerThe look-alikes sit togetherThe pairs the exam tests are drawn side by side, so the difference is seen, not told.
Dual coding · PaivioWhat one page is made of
You are never asked to read a poster here — only to see how one is built. After that, every other page is legible at a glance.
1A numbered strip on top
The idea as a sequence, followed with a finger before a word is read.
2Panels for the parts
What it is, how the machine learns it, when it is the right tool.
3The trap, framed
The distinction the exam tests, given its own box instead of buried in prose.
4One line at the bottom
The sentence to carry into the exam room.
Open book, on purpose
Answer it with the picture beside you
This is the part that teaches. The illustration and the written explanation stay where they are while you work, so a scenario stops being a memory test and becomes something you can simply look at.
It teaches · it does not count
A smartphone uses AI to unlock when the owner looks at the camera. Which AI capability is being used?
AImage classification
BFacial recognition
COptical character recognition
DObject detection
Look at the five steps. Detect finds a face, align straightens it, encode turns it into numbers, search compares it with a stored face, and decide answers one question: is this the same person? Classification would only say “a face”. Detection would only draw a box. Neither decides whose.
Then the page shuts, and it starts counting
The same questions come back with the book closed — that run is the one that counts. After it, your coach picks one thing for tonight, sized to the time you have, and brings pages back before you lose them.
Testing effect · Roediger & Karpicke 2006 · spacing effect · Cepeda et al. 2006
Official resources
Straight from Dell Technologies
Where the exam is defined, scheduled and scored.
2official links
134concepts mapped
The source
Dell Technologies’s own pages
We link to them rather than repeat them, so nothing here goes stale behind them.
Checked against the source
Every objective on the official Dell Technologies outline already has questions here
We build from the official skills outline, not from a summary of it — 24 objectives, 134 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When Dell Technologies changes the outline, this page changes with it.
24objectives on the outline→134concepts written→440free questions
An official page tells you what will be asked. It cannot tell you what you will get right.
That is the only question worth answering the night before, and no link answers it. You answer it by taking the questions with the book closed, and seeing what comes back.