$45: CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide, Volume 2 (Scheduled for Dec 17th, 2019).
$45: CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide, Volume 1 (Out since October 2019).
With the publishing schedule at that time, all three of these products should be out by January 2020, and could be pre-ordered from the publisher in November/December 2019: It may already be by the time you read this, but I published this post early November 2019. The next figure shows the part and chapter breakdown for Volume 2.įor a moment, pretend it’s already January 2020. Compared to the old CCNA R&S 200-125, CCNA 200-301 adds more security topics, loses and adds a number of IP services, and adds new automation topics. The following figure, from the Introduction to Volume 1, shows the breakdown based on book Parts, with the chapter numbers listed in parentheses. By choice, I made Volume 1 about core routing and switching: Ethernet switching, Wireless LANs, IPv4 routing, and IPv6 routing. Once we chose to go with two volumes, I had complete freedom for which topics to put in which book. So from the perspective of how much you need to learn for the exam, the job is now about 75% as much to learn as with the old CCNA R&S 200-125 exam. Of course, the new CCNA 200-301 adds new topics, by my estimate about 25% by size compared to the old CCNA R&S 200-125. To give you a sense of scale, by my estimates, the new CCNA 200-301 exam keeps roughly half the content/topics from the soon-to-retire CCNA R&S 200-125 exam. Not only does CCNA 200-301 include many of the same technologies, the phrasing of the exam topics is similar. If you look at the exam topics for CCNA 200-301 (which releases Feb 24, 2020), and compare them to the CCNA Routing and Switching 200-125 Exam (which retires Feb 23, 2020), it is clear that the new CCNA 200-301 is derived from the old CCNA 200-125 exam.