31 Days Before your CCNA Exam: A Day-By-Day Review Guide for the CCNA 200-301 Certification Exam, 2nd edition

Published by Cisco Press (December 5, 2024) © 2025

  • Allan Johnson
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Commit to taking your CCNA 200-301 exam

31 Days Before Your CCNA Exam: A Day-By-Day Review Guide for the CCNA 200-301 Certification Exam Second Edition is the friendliest, most practical way to understand the CCNA Routing and Switching certification process; to commit to taking your CCNA 200-301 exam; and to finish your preparation using a variety of primary and supplemental study resources.

Thoroughly updated for the current exam, this portable guide offers a complete day-by-day plan for what and how to study. From the basics of switch configuration and IP addressing through modern cloud, virtualisation, SDN, SDA, and network automation concepts, you'll find it here. Each day breaks down an exam topic into a short, easy-to-review summary, with Daily Study Resource quick-references pointing to deeper treatments elsewhere.

Table of contents

  • Introduction
  • Day 31: Networking Models, Devices, and Components
  • Day 30: Ethernet Switching
  • Day 29: Switch Configuration Basics
  • Day 28: IPv4 Addressing
  • Day 27: IPv6 Addressing
  • Day 26: VLAN and Trunking Concepts and Configurations
  • Day 25: STP
  • Day 24: EtherChannel and HSRP
  • Day 23: DHCP and DNS
  • Day 22: Wireless Concepts
  • Day 21: WLAN Configuration
  • Day 20: LAN Security and Device Hardening
  • Day 19: Basic Routing Concepts
  • Day 18: Basic Router Configuration
  • Day 17: The Routing Table
  • Day 16: Inter-VLAN Routing
  • Day 15: Static and Default Route Configuration
  • Day 14: OSPF Operation
  • Day 13: Single-Area OSPF Implementation
  • Day 12: Fine-Tuning and Troubleshooting OSPF
  • Day 11: Network Security Concepts
  • Day 10: ACL Concepts
  • Day 9: ACL Implementation
  • Day 8: NAT
  • Day 7: WAN, VPN, and IPsec
  • Day 6: QoS
  • Day 5: CDP and LLDP
  • Day 4: Device Monitoring, Management, and Maintenance
  • Day 3: Cloud, Virtualization, and SDN
  • Day 2: Cisco SD-Access, Ansible, and Terraform
  • Day 1: Data Formats, REST, and AI
  • Exam Day
  • Post-Exam Information
  • CCNA Countdown Calendar
  • Exam Checklist

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