Understanding Cisco®‘s new Certification Path

Cisco® announced their new certification paths on March 25th, 2013. The CCNA is no longer a prerequisite to all other certification paths; however, the CCENT (ICND1) is now the prerequisite to most tracks. At first, the CCENT would seem to provide an inadequate foundation, but Cisco® has really up’d their technology in the CCENT area! No longer is it an easy introduction to networking with some Cisco® routing and switching. We’re talking about a serious update to the CCENT!
The new CCENT exam covers the usual OSI, TCP/IP, subnetting, etc… but the depth of knowledge is much greater after that! VLANs, IVR, IPv6, EIGRP and OSPF are all new CCENT objectives and were covered previously only on the CCNA!
Cisco® has removed the following from the CCENT:

• Securing the network
• Understanding challenges of shared LANs
• Solving Network Challenges with Switched LAN Technologies
• Wireless LAN’s
• Using Cisco® SDM
• Configuring Serial Encapulation
• Enabling RIP

Topics Added to the ICND1 Exam:

• Implmenting VLSM
• Scaling the Network wtih NAT and PAT
• Managing Traffic Using ACL’s
• Implementing VLAN’s and Trunks
• Routing between VLAN’s
• Implementing Single Area OSPF
• Introducing Basic IPv6
• Understanding IPv6
• Configurating IPv6 Routing
   
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