New CCNA blueprint, with major updates – so we’re creating new editions of the two CCNA Official Cert Guides. They’re due out early 2027. Read here for what we know now here in [...]

Cisco announced CCNA 200-301 Blueprint Version 2.0 on May 20, 2026. If you’re studying for CCNA, of course you want to know: What’s in it? What’s changed? What new topics do I [...]

Barely two years ago (not quite 25 months) Cisco announced CCNA 200-301 V1.1. Today, they announced CCNA 200-301 V2.0, describing it as a major update to the blueprint – which it is. But do [...]

The Cisco Press eBook products have a long formal title – so the title gets abbreviated a lot. The abbreviations leave out the end: “and Practice Test,” so people sometimes miss that [...]

Can you guess – approximately – how many more unique practice questions you’ll see in the CCNA OCG Library, Second Edition, vs. the First edition? Or how many more timed CCNA practice exam banks [...]

Drumroll, please… yes, the CCNA Official Cert Guides have practice exams! Most of you are not surprised. What surprises me is that our surveys show that some people who buy the books do not even [...]

Cisco announced Version 1.1 of the CCNA 200-301 blueprint on April 22, 2024. They also announced an exam cutover date of August 20, 2024. If you happen to be studying for CCNA in those months, [...]

Cisco just announced (April 2024) a new version of the CCNA 200-301 blueprint. It’s a minor change. But with almost five years of time since the last blueprint announcement, there’s much more to [...]

Back in 2023, Cisco announced an annual cycle during which they consider making changes in each certification track. Cisco just announced their plans for this year’s cycle for the CCNA [...]

Cisco just released web pages and has begun discussing a new initiative called Cisco Certification Roadmaps. The short version: Cisco tells us the timing of potential updates to their exams. Yep. [...]

The most recent CCNA and CCNP exam release (February 2022) had a minor side effect that left many wondering: Was Cisco continuing to use the Sim and Simlet question types? A Cisco blog post in [...]

Some of you, particularly those that subscribe to the blog, will have noticed a lot of posts here at the blog in mid-October 2021. I thought I’d give you a quick update on what I’m [...]

You studied hard for CCNA 200-125, but you know you won’t finish it before the Feb 23rd deadline. Now you’ve moved on to CCNA 200-301. Did you use my CCNA 200-125 books? Are you now [...]

Anyone who has been pursuing CCNA Routing and Switching (R&S) over the last several months has asked themselves a simple question: Should I move on to study for the new CCNA based on the [...]

Between Cisco’s June 10, 2019 announcement and migration day – Feb. 24, 2020 – everyone on the road to Cisco certification has some choices to make. You might make those choices [...]

Cisco made some huge certification announcements last month. As soon as I heard (beforehand a bit, as usual), I started a tickler list of random blog ideas, just because there are so many [...]

You can choose to pursue the existing CCNA Routing and Switching certification or pursue the new CCNA certification come Feb 2020. However, this post does not talk about the choice, but instead [...]

Wow. Nine named CCNA certifications, plus CCDA – all being replaced by one CCNA certification come February 2020. Basically, Cisco morphed CCNA Routing and Switching (R&S) into the new CCNA. [...]

Cisco announced a complete revision to the entire career certification program on June 10th, 2019, with exams (lots and lots of exams) and new certifications and new rules and new everything with [...]

So if you missed the first post, or missed the news from day 1 of #CLUS, Cisco just announced a complete redesigned their entire career certification program. I’ve already introduced some of the [...]

Think of everything you know about Cisco career certifications, the various CCNA, CCNP, and CCIE certifications, and all the exams. Cisco just announced its redesign of the whole thing. Sweeping, [...]

What does Cisco put into the #CCNA exams, and why? Those who care about any cert may wonder about some of the topics. Today’s post gives me a chance to comment on a few of the content changes [...]

What’s on the #CCNA exam? What would like to see on the exam in the future? Continuing our look at 20 years of #CCNA, today I’ll ask a few questions about CCNA exam topics – topics in the past, [...]

20 years already? Yep. #CCNA (and #CCNP) have reached their 20th anniversaries this month, with Cisco announcing these certifications around the Philadelphia Cisco Live in 1998. It seems like a [...]