Will the CCNA Certification Exam Become Easier in 2024?
Cisco would have recently announced major changes of certification programs and they all would be taking place on February 24,2024. Herein, we would be talking about the CCNA Exam and the changes which are going through. But it is a recommendation, that you take it before the changes hit. If you wish to do so, you should opt for the courses which are being offered at the SPOTO Club, to help you out.
CCNA Exam Changes (200-301)
The official new exam name for CCNA2024 is Cisco Certified Network Associate v2.0 or CCNA 200-301. I know it is quite confusing since CCNA exams have already been changed for a couple of times in recent years. I would be calling this2024 CCNA by its exam code “200-301” instead. Compared to the current single CCNA 200-125 exam, more topics and questions would be tested in the new CCNA 200-301 Exam, such as Wireless LAN, Automation and Programmability. The exam time is also increased. In short, the new CCNA exam would be more challenging for preparing over the current exams. The good news is, we still have around a few months to take the current single 200-125 exam, before February 24,2024, from today so, that we wouldn’t have to take the difficult exam. If you are in the middle of CCNA preparation, I recommend keep going, which is also what Cisco recommends. Eight months should be enough for you, no matter you plan to dedicate days to take classroom training, online training, or use self-studying kits, as tools for exam preparations.
Impacts on CCENT holders
If you plan to achieve CCNA by passing 2 exams in 2 stages, the2024 changes could impact you the most. This would be because CCENT certification itself is also gone after February 24,2024! Your CCENT passing status couldn’t be re-certified after February 24,2024. You are needed to acquire your CCNA, and for that, you must pass both ICND1 (100-105) and ICND2 (200-105) before the changes hit. Otherwise, you could be able to only restart your whole CCNA certification process after February 24,2024.
Impacts on specialized CCNA
Specialized CCNA certifications, such as CCNA Wireless, would all be gone after February 24,2024! They all would be becoming a single certification: CCNA. No more individual specialized CCNA anymore. Here is the list of “specialized CCNA” which I came to know that would be gone
- CCNA Cloud
- CCNA Collaboration
- CCNA Cyber Ops
- CCNA Data Center
- CCDA
- CCNA Industrial
- CCNA Routing and Switching
- CCNA Security
- CCNA Service Provider
- CCNA Wireless