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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 [...]

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 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 [...]

I’ve written and taught a lot during my career, but I’ve never made a concerted effort to use YouTube. Well, it’s time. The channel name is Network Upskill, and the URL is [...]

We – Cisco Press and I – decided to produce two volumes for the new CCNA 200-301 exam. We can explain the what and the why in a sentence each, but the two-volume approach presents [...]

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 [...]