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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, [...]

Welcome to the new blog! You just landed at my new consolidated blog site. In the past, I’ve kept two blog sites to help make navigating the CCNA content in my two books more managable. [...]

Taking notes at #CLUS, even planning different methods to use in different CLUS venues, and with the discipline to make myself take notes instead of getting lazy, has improved how much I learn at [...]

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, [...]

Today’s post gets to my personal history with CCNA, touching on some historical tidbits that I hope you’ll find interesting. I’ve included many memories and some nostalgia. Those of you who have [...]

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 [...]

Go fast. Faster. Fastest! Sure, you need to be able to do subnetting tasks with speed on the CCNA R&S exams. But you can do some activities when studying that can reduce much of the fear [...]

To learn subnetting more efficiently, and be better prepared for the exam, you need a metaphorical push out of the nest from momma bird. That’s learning stage 2. Today’s post goes beyond the [...]

Want amazing results with subnetting on your #CCNA exam? What helps you achieve those results? To get the best results for the time invested, adjust how you study based on your current knowledge [...]

IPv4 subnetting sits at the top of the list of challenges for #CCNA. I’m wrapping up the development of a new subnetting course, and as a result, I’ve been thinking a lot about how people learn [...]

I’ve been to Cisco Live in the US – #CLUS in the Twitterverse – for what seems like almost every year since I was a kid. So, I thought I’d collect some thoughts about the show into a blog [...]

The Cisco SE organization and Cisco DevNet are teaming up to hold a Cisco Chat about CLI and API. It has a catchy title: “Have APIs Killed the CLI?”. This blog post gives some short [...]

Several related anniversaries are happening around this same year (2016) in which Cisco has announced what is basically the 7th version of the CCNA R&S certification exams. The CCIE program [...]

Lots of people ask questions about the new products when the exam revises. And sometimes it’s a little tricky to navigate what’s what. This post cuts through the clutter to net out the details [...]

This post completes the four posts about content changes in the exam topics for the new CCNA exams. Today’s post looks at a surprising number of conceptual additions to ICND2. It also touches on [...]

This post continues a series designed to reveal the details of the content as listed in the various exams’ listing of exam topics. The focus here: the new ICND2 200-105 exam (the second half of [...]

The new #CCNA and #CCENT are out as announced by Cisco on May 17th, 2016. The previous post revealed some of the specifics about the half of the CCNA R&S content covered in the ICND1 100-105 [...]

Yes, Cisco announced new #ICND1, #ICND2, and #CCNA R&S exams in May 2016. The new exams – 100-105, 200-105, and 200-125, respectively – have plenty of interesting new topics and new [...]