Hi all you regular blog users, I’m sure you know we released new CCNA Official Cert Guides in mid-year 2024. Those books impact this blog because the blog organizes its content to match the [...]
We’ve updated the blog site! Driven by a need to change to a new WordPress theme, I invested more time updating some of the styling, content, and features to make the site more usable for [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Cisco Live, aka #CLUS on Twitter, celebrated its 25th year this year at the show in San Francisco. The show has grown and grown over the years, both in size and quality. If I could only spend one [...]
While working through revising the #CCENT/#ICND1 Cert Guide for the last 6 months, thinking hard about the revised ICND1 exam topics, some choices made sense to me, and some didn’t. Frankly, my [...]
Yep, it’s official. Cisco just announced changes to #CCENT and #CCNA, that is, the Cisco Certified Entry Network Technician (CCENT) and Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certifications. [...]