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Over the years, I’ve created a bundle of about 75 lab exercises here at the blog, called Config Labs. The idea is to read the web page for the lab, then do the lab, and then check your [...]

Cisco plans to release start testing based on the CCNA 200-301 Version 1.1 blueprint starting August 20, 2024, replacing the former V1.0 blueprint. Yes, we have new books out mid-year 2024 that [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This post is short, sweet, and straightforward. It answers the most common questions about the CCNA Official Cert Guide products. It details the new 2nd Edition books, out in calendar year 2024. [...]

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 [...]

For the first time in almost five years, Cisco today announced a new CCNA exam blueprint: The CCNA 200-301 Version 1.1 blueprint. Dramatic, right? Let’s look at the changes together in this post [...]