What are the changes in the new CCNA?

Cisco has been reviewing her curriculum, and on March 26^th 2013 announced a new version of CCNA which outlines the importance of routing and switching as a carrier directory. The custom CCNA has evolved from the old generation which was the fundamental certification to a more concentrated new generation which is now called CCNA routing and switching with effect taken as from October this year.

What other changes have been made aside from the name? I hope this was the question on your mind. Well I tell you that a lot of changes have been made not only on the name but also on the certification and moreover a lot of changes have been made on the topics some topics have been removed, added to or transferred from one curriculum to another. Here I have a list of those changes but first I’ll start with the;

Changes made on the Certification:  If you pass the exams listed on the left side of the table below then you will definitely get the certification accompanied by each of them on the right.

EXAMS	CERTIFICATION
ICND1	CCENT
IINS	CCNA security
ICOMM	CCNA voice
IUWNE	CCNA wireless
ICND2	CCNA routing and switching

 Here is a brief description of the table, ICND1 alone becomes the fundamental course and if you pass the exams gives you a CCENT certification. On passing a second exam such as IINS exams earns you a CCNA concentration (i.e. CCNA security) you become CCNA voice certified if you pass the ICOMM exams, passing the IUWNE exams gives you a CCNA wireless; finally you become CCNA Routing and Switching when you pass your ICND2 exams.

CCNA vol.1.1 vs CCNA vol2.0                                                                                                                                         The most important and fundamental difference between CCNA v.1.1 and vol2.0

Several topics have been moved from ICND2 into ICND1	A few topics have been removed from the CCNA Routing and Switching curriculum:	Several topics have been added to the ICND2 course:
Managing and Implementing Traffic Filtering Traffic Using ACLs	Understanding and Configuring RIP	Troubleshooting VLAN Connectivity
Implementing VLANs and Trunks	Understanding Wireless LANs	Optimizing STP
Routing Between VLANs	Cisco Security devise Manager(SDM)	Configuring Ether Channel
Implementing OSPF		Understand Layer 3 Redundancy
Introducing and Understanding Basic IPv6		Troubleshooting IPv4 Network Connectivity
Implementing VLSM		Troubleshooting IPv6 Network Connectivity
Configuring Serial Encapsulation		Implementing EIGRP for IPv6
Scaling the Network with NAT and PAT		Multi-area OSPF IPv4 Implementation
		Examining OSPFv3 for IPv6
		Configuring GRE Tunnels
		SNMP and Syslog Basic Configuration
		Managing Cisco Devices and Licensing

Here is an interactive video chat with Jeremy Cioara The CCIE

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjgTPyxJM0Y

This is as far as I go for now. I really hope that this post is helpful to you.

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