New CCNA Curriculum

New CCNA Curriculum
CISCO has announced a change in its entry level Certification CCNA in march 2013.

The formerly known CCNA with the Exam Code 640-802 has metamorphosed into CCNA Routing and Switching with the new code being 200-101.

Students who intend to write their CCNA Exams still have the opportunity to write the current 640-802 untill September 30, 2013, and Students have a deadline of August 20, 2013 to make a purchase of their Exam vouchers, failure to do so implies that the Student will have to write the new 200-101 Exam - that means you might have to go through a new training.

NOTE: Students should be aware that Cisco do not discriminate between Holders of the Old Certification(640-802) and the New Certification(200-101), but strongly advises the Old Certificate holders to the their best to get the knowledge added, or re-write their exams quickly at the expiration of their current degree.

TopicsRemoved from the ICND1 Exam:

• Securing the Network  
• Understanding the challenges of Shared LAN
• Solving Network Challenges with Switched LAN Technologies
• Wireless LAN 
• Using Cisco SDM
• Configuring Serial Encapsulation
• Enabling RIP   

Topics Added to the ICND1 Exam

• Implementing VLSM
• Scaling the Network with NAT and PAT
• Managing Traffic Using ACLs
• Implementing VLANs and Trunks
• Routing Between VLANs
• Implementing single area OSPF
• Introducing Basic IPv6
• Understanding IPv6
• Configuring IPv6 Routing 

 Candidates who currently have a CCNA Routing and Switching certification and are preparing to recertify, should be made aware that the 200-101 ICND2 exam has been redesigned.  Candidates are encouraged to review the topic modifications before attempting to take the 200-101 ICND2 exam.

Below are the topics removed from ICND2;

• Routing Between VLANs
• Securing the Expanded Network  
• Implementing VLSM
• Scaling the Network with NAT and PAT

 Here are the newly added topics;

• Troubleshooting VLAN Connectivity
• Understand Spanning Tree Protocol
• Understand and configure Etherchannel
• Understand Layer 3 Redundancy Protocols(HSRP)
• Troubleshooting IPv4 Network Connectivity
• Troubleshooting IPv6 Network Connectivity
• Implementing EIGRP
• Troubleshooting EIGRP
• Implementing EIGRP for IPv6
• Multi-area OSPF IPv4 Implementation
• Understanding and configuring OSPFv3
• Understanding and configuring clients for SNMP, Syslog and Netflow
• Managing Cisco devices
• Understanding and verifying Cisco licensing  

You can also visit Cisco Networking Academy(https://www.netacad.com/‎) to get more detail.