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    xxvii

    Introduction
    About Cisco Certifications and CCNA
    Congratulations! If you’re reading far enough to look at this book’s Introduction, you’ve
    probably already decided to go for your Cisco certification, and the CCNA certification
    is the one place to begin that journey. If you want to succeed as a technical person in the
    networking industry at all, you need to know Cisco. Cisco has a ridiculously high market
    share in the router and switch marketplace, with more than 80 percent market share in
    some markets. In many geographies and markets around the world, networking equals
    Cisco. If you want to be taken seriously as a network engineer, Cisco certification makes
    perfect sense.

    NOTE This book discusses part of the content Cisco includes in the CCNA 200-301
    exam, with the CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide, Volume 1, covering the rest. You
    will need both the Volume 1 and Volume 2 books to have all the content necessary for
    the exam.

    The first few pages of this Introduction explain the core features of the Cisco Career
    Certification program, of which the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) serves
    as the foundation for all the other certifications in the program. This section begins with
    a comparison of the old to the new certifications due to some huge program changes in
    2019. It then gives the key features of CCNA, how to get it, and what’s on the exam.

    The Big Changes to Cisco Certifications in 2019


    Cisco announced sweeping changes to its career certification program around mid-year
    2019. Because so many of you will have read and heard about the old versions of the
    CCNA certification, this Introduction begins with a few comparisons between the old
    and new CCNA as well as some of the other Cisco career certifications.

    First, consider the Cisco career certifications before 2019, as shown in Figure I-1. At
    that time, Cisco offered 10 separate CCNA certifications in different technology tracks.
    Cisco also had eight Professional-level (CCNP, or Cisco Certified Network Professional)
    certifications.
    xxviii CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide, Volume 2

    Collaboration Data Center Routing & Wireless Security Service


    Switching Provider

    CCIE
    Collaboration Data Center Routing & Wireless Security Service Cloud
    Switching Provider

    CCNP
    Collaboration Data Center Routing & Wireless Security Service Cloud Cyber Industrial
    Switching Provider Ops

    CCNA
    Figure I-1 Old Cisco Certification Silo Concepts

    Why so many? Cisco began with one track—Routing and Switching—back in 1998.
    Over time, Cisco identified more and more technology areas that had grown to have
    enough content to justify another set of CCNA and CCNP certifications on those topics,
    so Cisco added more tracks. Many of those also grew to support expert-level topics with
    CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert).

    In 2019, Cisco consolidated the tracks and moved the topics around quite a bit, as
    shown in Figure I-2.

    Collaboration Data Center Enterprise Security Service Provider

    CCIE
    Collaboration Data Center Enterprise Security Service Provider

    CCNP

    CCNA
    Figure I-2 New Cisco Certification Tracks and Structure

    All the tracks now begin with the content in the one remaining CCNA certification. For
    CCNP, you now have a choice of five technology areas for your next steps, as shown in
    Figure I-2. (Note that Cisco replaced “Routing and Switching” with “Enterprise.”)

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