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CCENT:
Retired the only Entry-level certification (CCENT, or Cisco Certified Entry 
Network Technician), with no replacement.
CCNA:
Retired all the CCNA certifications except what was then known as “CCNA 
Routing and Switching,” which became simply “CCNA.” 
CCNP:
Consolidated the Professional level (CCNP) certifications to five tracks, includ-
ing merging CCNP Routing and Switching and CCNP Wireless into CCNP Enterprise.
CCIE:
Achieved better alignment with CCNP tracks through the consolidations. 
Cisco needed to move many of the individual exam topics from one exam to another 
because of the number of changes. For instance, Cisco retired nine CCNA certifications 
plus the CCDA (Design Associate) certification—but those technologies didn’t disap-
pear! Cisco just moved the topics around to different exams in different certifications. 
Consider wireless LANs as an example. The 2019 announcements retired both CCNA 
Wireless and CCNP Wireless as certifications. Some of the old CCNA Wireless topics 
landed in the new CCNA, while others landed in the two CCNP Enterprise exams about 
wireless LANs.
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For those of you who want to learn more about the transition, check out my blog 
(blog.certskills.com) and look for posts in the News category from around June 2019. 
Now on to the details about CCNA as it exists starting in 2019!
How to Get Your CCNA Certification
As you saw in Figure I-2, all career certification paths now begin with CCNA. So how do 
you get it? Today, you have one and only one option to achieve CCNA certification:
Take and pass one exam: The Cisco 200-301 CCNA exam.
To take the 200-301 exam, or any Cisco exam, you will use the services of Pearson VUE 
(vue.com). The process works something like this: