Most people searching for the CCNA 200-301 syllabus want one thing: a list of what is on the exam and how much of the marks each part is worth, so they can decide where to spend their evenings. That list is short, it comes straight from Cisco, and you will find it below in full.
There is a second thing you need in October 2026, and almost nobody searching for this is being told it. Cisco published a new set of CCNA exam topics on 20 May 2026. The syllabus you are about to study is version 1.1, and the last day you can sit it is 2 February 2027. From 3 February 2027 the exam becomes version 2.0, which has five domains instead of six, renames four of them, and reshuffles the weights. We read both official topic lists and both exam-topics pages on 5 October 2026, and we have put them side by side here because nothing else on Google’s first page for this search does.
So this guide is in two halves. First the v1.1 syllabus, domain by domain, with the weights and the real sub-topic wording. Then what changes in v2.0, what it means for your exam date, and how the same six domains are taught as Module 01 of the AimNxt CCNA and CCNP networking course in Hyderabad, where the routing you read about in Domain 3.0 happens on a router you can reach across the table.
What is the CCNA 200-301 syllabus?
The CCNA 200-301 v1.1 syllabus is six weighted domains: Network Fundamentals 20%, Network Access 20%, IP Connectivity 25%, IP Services 10%, Security Fundamentals 15%, and Automation and Programmability 10%. Cisco publishes 53 top-level topics across them. The exam runs 120 minutes, costs US$300, has no prerequisites, and version 1.1 is testable until 2 February 2027.
That is the whole blueprint in one paragraph, and it is worth noticing how small it is. Six domains. Fifty-three numbered statements. People talk about CCNA as if it were an encyclopaedia, but Cisco’s own document fits on a handful of pages, and every question on your exam has to trace back to one of those fifty-three lines.
What makes it hard is not the breadth. It is the verbs. Read the list carefully and you will see that thirty of those fifty-three lines start with something you have to do — configure, verify, interpret, identify — not something you have to know. That distinction is the whole difference between passing and retaking, and it is the reason we keep saying the syllabus is a lab plan rather than a reading list.
What are the six CCNA 200-301 v1.1 domains and their exam weights?
Cisco weights the six CCNA 200-301 v1.1 domains as follows: IP Connectivity 25%, Network Fundamentals 20%, Network Access 20%, Security Fundamentals 15%, IP Services 10%, and Automation and Programmability 10%. IP Connectivity is the heaviest domain with just five top-level topics, so it carries the most marks per topic on the whole blueprint.
Here is the official table, with the number of top-level topics Cisco lists under each domain added in the third column. We counted them from the exam-topics PDF, because the ratio of weight to topic count tells you something the weight alone does not.
| Domain | Weight | Top-level topics Cisco lists | Marks per topic (relative) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 IP Connectivity | 25% | 5 | Highest — 5.0% per topic |
| 1.0 Network Fundamentals | 20% | 13 | 1.5% per topic |
| 2.0 Network Access | 20% | 9 | 2.2% per topic |
| 5.0 Security Fundamentals | 15% | 10 | 1.5% per topic |
| 4.0 IP Services | 10% | 9 | 1.1% per topic |
| 6.0 Automation and Programmability | 10% | 7 | 1.4% per topic |
Weights and topic lists read directly from the official Cisco exam-topics page and the 200-301 CCNA v1.1 exam-topics PDF on learningcontent.cisco.com, both accessed 5 October 2026. The marks-per-topic column is our own arithmetic, not a Cisco figure, and it is indicative only — Cisco does not publish per-topic question counts.
Look at the first row. IP Connectivity is a quarter of the exam and Cisco describes it in five sentences. Network Fundamentals is a fifth of the exam described in thirteen. On a per-topic basis, a line in IP Connectivity is worth roughly three times a line in Network Fundamentals. That is why candidates who spread their time evenly across six domains come out under-prepared on routing, which is the one domain where the questions are most likely to ask you to read a routing table and say what happens to a packet.
One thing to watch in Google’s own answer
On 5 October 2026 the snippet Google displays for Cisco’s official exam-topics page lists only five domains — it drops IP Connectivity, the heaviest one. The AI Overview on the same search gets all six right. If you are building a study plan from a search snippet rather than from the source page, check it against Cisco’s site before you trust it.
Domain 1.0 Network Fundamentals: what the 20% covers
Network Fundamentals is 20% of the CCNA 200-301 v1.1 exam and the largest domain by topic count, with 13 top-level topics running from network components to switching concepts. It covers IPv4 and IPv6 addressing and subnetting, cabling and interface faults, TCP against UDP, wireless principles, virtualisation fundamentals including containers and VRFs, and verifying IP settings on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Cisco’s own wording for the two configure-and-verify lines in this domain is worth quoting, because it is where most of the marks sit: topic 1.6 is “Configure and verify IPv4 addressing and subnetting” and topic 1.8 is “Configure and verify IPv6 addressing and prefix”. Everything else in Domain 1.0 is describe, explain, compare or identify. Two lines out of thirteen ask you to type something, and those two lines are subnetting.
That is the honest answer to “how much subnetting do I need?”. You need it until it is boring. Not because subnetting questions are worth 20% on their own, but because you cannot answer anything in Domain 3.0 without it either. Topic 1.4 is the other one people underrate — “Identify interface and cable issues (collisions, errors, mismatch duplex, and/or speed)”. It reads like trivia and it is the single most common thing a first-year network engineer in Hyderabad gets asked to diagnose on a Monday morning.
Domain 2.0 Network Access: what the 20% covers
Network Access is 20% of the CCNA 200-301 v1.1 exam across nine top-level topics, and four of those nine are wireless. It covers VLANs spanning multiple switches, interswitch connectivity, Cisco Discovery Protocol and LLDP, Layer 2 and Layer 3 EtherChannel using LACP, Rapid PVST+ spanning tree, Cisco wireless architectures and access-point modes, and interpreting the wireless LAN controller GUI.
The wireless share of this domain surprises people. Topics 2.6, 2.7 and 2.9 are all wireless — architectures and AP modes, the physical infrastructure connections of WLAN components, and reading a wireless LAN GUI for client connectivity — and topic 5.10 over in Security Fundamentals asks you to configure a WLAN in the GUI using WPA2 PSK. Add them up and roughly one exam question in twelve is about a wireless controller.
You can memorise controller screenshots. It does not work well, because the questions tend to show you a configuration and ask what a client will experience. This is the clearest case on the whole blueprint for having touched the hardware: the AimNxt lab inventory for the Networking Ignite Programme includes two wireless LAN controllers and three access points, so Domain 2.0 gets taught on a controller rather than in a slide deck.
The switching half
VLANs across multiple switches, access and trunk ports, 802.1Q, native VLAN, CDP and LLDP, EtherChannel with LACP, and Rapid PVST+ including root bridge election and PortFast.
The wireless half
Cisco wireless architectures and AP modes, WLAN component connections for AP, WLC, access and trunk ports, LAG, and interpreting the wireless LAN GUI for WLAN creation, security, QoS profiles and advanced settings.
The access half
Topic 2.8, network device management access: console, SSH, Telnet, HTTP, HTTPS, TFTP and terminal server. Small line, constant exam presence, because every other configuration task assumes you got in first.
Domain 3.0 IP Connectivity: what the heaviest 25% covers
IP Connectivity is the heaviest domain on the CCNA 200-301 v1.1 exam at 25%, and Cisco describes it in only five top-level topics. They are interpreting a routing table, how a router forwards by default, configuring and verifying IPv4 and IPv6 static routing, configuring and verifying single-area OSPFv2, and first hop redundancy protocols.
A quarter of your exam rests on five sentences, and two of them are the ones that decide your result. Topic 3.1 asks you to interpret a routing table: routing protocol code, prefix, network mask, next hop, administrative distance, metric, gateway of last resort. Topic 3.2 asks how the router chooses — longest prefix match, then administrative distance, then metric. Get those two solid and a surprising number of scenario questions collapse into arithmetic.
OSPFv2 at topic 3.4 is where the lab hours go: neighbour adjacencies, point-to-point, broadcast with DR and BDR selection, and router ID. Note what is not there. No multi-area OSPF. No EIGRP. No BGP. People lose weeks to protocols that are not on the blueprint, usually because a course was built for a different exam. If you want the view one level up, our comparison of CCNA against CCNP in 2026 sets out what the professional-level exam adds here.
The five lines that are a quarter of your exam. 3.1 Interpret the components of a routing table. 3.2 Determine how a router makes a forwarding decision by default. 3.3 Configure and verify IPv4 and IPv6 static routing. 3.4 Configure and verify single area OSPFv2. 3.5 Describe the purpose, functions and concepts of first hop redundancy protocols. Three of the five start with a verb you can only practise, not read.
Domain 4.0 IP Services: what the 10% covers
IP Services is 10% of the CCNA 200-301 v1.1 exam across nine top-level topics, the lowest-weight domain per topic on the blueprint. It covers inside source NAT, NTP, the roles of DHCP and DNS, SNMP, syslog severity levels, DHCP relay, per-hop behaviour for QoS, SSH remote access, and TFTP and FTP.
Nine topics for ten marks makes this the domain people are most tempted to skip, and the arithmetic is against skipping it. Each topic here is worth roughly a fifth of what an IP Connectivity topic is worth, but four of the nine are configure-and-verify lines, and configure-and-verify lines attract performance-based questions. Cheap marks, if you have done them once on a device.
The two that repay the most effort are topic 4.1, inside source NAT with static entries and pools, and topic 4.5, syslog facilities and severity levels. NAT because the configuration order catches people out; syslog because the severity scale from 0 emergency to 7 debugging is pure recall and appears constantly. Topic 4.7, the QoS per-hop behaviour line covering classification, marking, queuing, congestion, policing and shaping, is the longest sentence in the domain and the only purely conceptual one.
Domain 5.0 Security Fundamentals: what the 15% covers
Security Fundamentals is 15% of the CCNA 200-301 v1.1 exam across ten top-level topics, and six of the ten are configure-and-verify. It covers security concepts, programme elements, local password access control, password policy, IPsec VPNs, access control lists, Layer 2 security, AAA, wireless security protocols, and WPA2 PSK.
Topic 5.6, “Configure and verify access control lists”, is the one to get right. ACLs appear in the security domain but they are tested as a routing-and-switching skill: wildcard masks, implicit deny, the order of entries, where you apply the list and in which direction. An ACL question is a reading-comprehension question with an off-by-one trap in it.
Topic 5.7 is the Layer 2 trio that real networks actually run: DHCP snooping, dynamic ARP inspection and port security. If you have read our guide to whether CCNA is still worth it you will recognise why these three keep coming up in interviews — they are the controls a junior engineer is handed first because they are visible, specific and easy to verify.
| What you must configure in Domain 5.0 | Cisco topic |
|---|---|
| Device access control using local passwords | 5.3 |
| Access control lists | 5.6 |
| Layer 2 security — DHCP snooping, dynamic ARP inspection, port security | 5.7 |
| A WLAN within the GUI using WPA2 PSK | 5.10 |
| Describe only: threats and mitigations, programme elements, password policy, IPsec VPNs, AAA, WPA/WPA2/WPA3 | 5.1, 5.2, 5.4, 5.5, 5.8, 5.9 |
Domain 6.0 Automation and Programmability: what the 10% covers
Automation and Programmability is 10% of the CCNA 200-301 v1.1 exam across seven top-level topics, and none of them require you to write code. It covers how automation changes network management, traditional against controller-based networking, software-defined architecture, AI and machine learning in network operations, REST-based API characteristics, configuration management with Ansible and Terraform, and recognising JSON-encoded data.
This is the domain candidates dread and then find easiest, because the verbs give the game away: explain, compare, describe, explain, describe, recognise, recognise. Cisco is not asking you to automate a network. It is asking whether you know what a controller does, what a REST call looks like, and whether you can look at a block of JSON and say which part is the key and which is the value.
Topic 6.4 deserves a note, because it changes how the 2027 version reads. It is already worded “Explain AI (generative and predictive) and machine learning in network operations”. AI is not arriving in CCNA in 2027 — it has been in the v1.1 blueprint all along, as one line out of fifty-three. What changes next February is its promotion into a domain title, which we come to next.
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Is the CCNA 200-301 syllabus changing in 2027?
Yes. Cisco published new CCNA exam topics on 20 May 2026, and the 200-301 exam moves to version 2.0 on 3 February 2027. Version 1.1 stays testable until 2 February 2027. The exam code, the US$300 price and the 120-minute duration all stay the same, but the domain structure drops from six to five and four domains are renamed.
Cisco states both dates plainly on its own pages. The v1.1 exam-topics page carries the note “Last date to test for v1.1 is February 2, 2027. First date to test for v2.0 is February 3, 2027,” and the v2.0 page repeats the start date. Those are not rumours from a forum; they are on learningnetwork.cisco.com today.
What struck us while researching this page is how little of that has reached the pages ranking for this search. We opened the page-one syllabus guides on 5 October 2026. One of the most prominent, updated on 17 July 2026 — two months after Cisco published the new topics — contains no mention of v2.0, of February 2027, or of any forthcoming change. Another page-one result is dated March 2024. Meanwhile Google’s own AI Overview on this query already offers to explain the v2.0 changes. The answer layer has moved; the articles have not.
What are the CCNA v2.0 domains and their exam weights?
CCNA 200-301 v2.0 has five domains: Network Infrastructure and Connectivity 25%, Switching and Network Access 25%, IP Routing 20%, Network Services and Security 20%, and AI, and Network Operations and Management 10%. Cisco lists 29 top-level topics across them, down from 53 in version 1.1, and the exam stays 120 minutes at US$300.
Put the two blueprints next to each other and the shape of the change is obvious. Routing loses five points. Switching and access gains five. Security stops being its own domain and merges with IP services. And the automation domain keeps its 10% but gets AI written into its name.
| v1.1 domain (to 2 Feb 2027) | Weight | v2.0 domain (from 3 Feb 2027) | Weight | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 Network Fundamentals | 20% | 1.0 Network Infrastructure and Connectivity | 25% | +5 |
| 2.0 Network Access | 20% | 2.0 Switching and Network Access | 25% | +5 |
| 3.0 IP Connectivity | 25% | 3.0 IP Routing | 20% | −5 |
| 4.0 IP Services 5.0 Security Fundamentals | 10% 15% | 4.0 Network Services and Security (merged) | 20% | −5 |
| 6.0 Automation and Programmability | 10% | 5.0 AI, and Network Operations and Management | 10% | level |
Both weight tables read on 5 October 2026 from Cisco’s own 200-301 CCNA v1.1 exam topics page and 200-301 CCNA v2.0 exam topics page, and from the two exam-topics PDFs they link to. The merge shown on row four is our reading of where the v1.1 content went; Cisco publishes the two tables separately and does not publish a mapping.
What is genuinely new in CCNA v2.0, and what disappears?
The real change in CCNA v2.0 is the verbs, not the AI headline: 8 of its 29 top-level topics begin with Troubleshoot or Diagnose, against zero of the 53 topics in version 1.1. New content includes agentic AI, prompt construction for generative AI, OSPFv3, VRRP, TACACS+ and RADIUS, SFTP and SCP, DNS record types, and Power over Ethernet.
We counted this ourselves from the two official PDFs, and it is the most useful thing on this page. The word “Troubleshoot” does not appear once in the v1.1 topic list. In v2.0 it appears six times, with “Diagnose” twice more — 28% of the blueprint. Cisco’s own announcement on 20 May 2026 names four pillars for the refresh: “network infrastructure, troubleshooting and problem-solving, developing a security-first mindset, and understanding the role of AI in network management and operations.” The verb count is that sentence turned into exam weighting.
Two consequences follow. First, v2.0 is harder to study from a book, because you cannot troubleshoot a network you have never built. Second, the headline everyone is repeating — “CCNA is adding AI” — is the smaller half of the story. AI and network operations together are 10%, exactly what automation was worth before. Troubleshooting is spread across every domain.
| New in v2.0 (not in v1.1) | Gone from v2.0 as a standalone topic |
|---|---|
| The role of agentic AI in network operations (5.1) | Compare TCP to UDP (was 1.5) |
| Selecting a prompt for a generative AI system — data classification, output format, persona, instructions (5.2) | Forwarding per-hop behaviour for QoS (was 4.7) |
| OSPFv3 for IPv6 alongside OSPFv2 (3.3) | Characteristics of REST-based APIs (was 6.5) |
| VRRP named alongside HSRP (3.4) | Recognising JSON-encoded data (was 6.7) |
| AAA client configuration with TACACS+ and RADIUS (4.1) | NTP in client and server mode (was 4.2) |
| Secure file transfer with SFTP and SCP (4.2) | TFTP and FTP capabilities (was 4.9) |
| DNS record diagnosis — A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, PTR (4.4) | Terraform named in configuration management (Ansible stays) |
| Power over Ethernet and port channel on edge ports (2.2); packet-capture output (2.4) | “Automation and Programmability” as a domain name |
Compiled line by line from the official 200-301 CCNA v1.1 and v2.0 exam-topics PDFs, read 5 October 2026. “Gone as a standalone topic” means the numbered line no longer exists in v2.0; some of that knowledge is still assumed inside other topics, and Cisco publishes no retirement list. Always check the live PDF before you drop something from a study plan.
Should you sit v1.1 before 2 February 2027 or wait for v2.0?
If you can realistically be exam-ready by 2 February 2027, sit version 1.1; if you are starting from zero in late 2026, plan for version 2.0 instead. From 5 October 2026 there are roughly 17 weeks to the v1.1 cut-off. That is enough for someone already working with networks and tight for a complete beginner studying part-time.
Neither version is worth more. Both are the 200-301 CCNA, both are valid for three years, and a certificate earned on 1 February 2027 does not say “v1.1” on it. So this is a scheduling decision, not a prestige one, and it comes down to three honest questions.
Can you be ready in 17 weeks?
Count the hours you will actually sit down, not the hours you hope to. If the answer is comfortably yes, book the v1.1 exam date now, because the deadline is a feature: it stops the study period expanding.
Have you already bought v1.1 material?
If you are part-way through a v1.1 course or book, finishing it and sitting before 2 February 2027 is almost always cheaper than switching. Material rewritten for v2.0 will take months to appear in finished form.
Are you starting from nothing?
Then aim at v2.0 and use the extra runway properly. The troubleshooting weighting means lab time is not optional, so pick a programme that gives you device access rather than a video library, and ask in writing how it handles the changeover.
One practical note for anyone enrolling in a course this quarter. Cisco has said on its own Learning Network blog that it plans to update its three-course CCNA curriculum series to incorporate the new exam topics before the end of calendar year 2026. Ask any provider you are talking to which version their material covers and what happens if your batch straddles February. A provider who cannot answer that in a sentence has not read the announcement.
How should you divide your study hours across the syllabus?
Allocate study hours in proportion to Cisco’s published domain weights, then add lab time on top of the configure-and-verify topics. On a 120-hour plan for version 1.1 that is 30 hours on IP Connectivity, 24 each on Network Fundamentals and Network Access, 18 on Security Fundamentals, and 12 each on IP Services and Automation and Programmability.
The explorer below does that arithmetic for either version and shows you what each domain contains, how many topics Cisco lists under it, which AimNxt NIP module teaches it, and how often Hyderabad employers name the domain’s signature skill in a job advert. Change the hours, switch the version, click a domain. Nothing is stored or sent anywhere.
CCNA Syllabus Domain Explorer & Study-Hour Split
Pick a version, set the hours you can realistically give it, then open any domain. Weights and topic counts come from Cisco’s official exam-topics PDFs, read 5 October 2026.
That is about 7.1 hours a week. Default is 17 weeks, the runway from 5 October 2026 to the v1.1 cut-off.
Choose a domain above to see its weight, your hour allocation, what it covers, and where it is taught in the AimNxt Networking Ignite Programme.
Your hours:
What it covers:
How it is tested:
In Hyderabad job adverts:
Hour figures are Cisco’s published domain weight applied to the number you enter — a starting split, not a guarantee of readiness. Add lab time on top of the configure-and-verify topics. Hyderabad advert counts were read on Naukri for Hyderabad and Secunderabad on 5 October 2026 and are keyword matches, so they include some roles outside networking. No data leaves this page.
Which CCNA syllabus topics do Hyderabad employers actually advertise?
Hyderabad employers advertise network troubleshooting roughly five times more often than they advertise CCNA itself: 3,251 listings against 661 on 5 October 2026. We read Naukri for Hyderabad and Secunderabad the same day. VLAN returned 960 listings, access control list 1,197, OSPF 615, spanning tree protocol 488, subnetting 123 and wireless LAN controller just 4.
That last number is the interesting one, and it cuts against the syllabus. Four of the nine Network Access topics touch wireless and the controller GUI, plus one more in Security Fundamentals, yet “wireless LAN controller” appears in four job adverts in the whole city. The skill is examined far more than it is named. Which is exactly why you practise it on a controller instead of learning the screenshots: the advert will say “enterprise wireless” and the interviewer will ask you what a lightweight AP does when it loses the controller.
The troubleshooting gap is the other finding worth acting on. Hyderabad has been advertising for troubleshooters all along; version 1.1 of the exam never used the word; version 2.0 uses it in 28% of its topics. Cisco is catching up with the job adverts, not getting ahead of them.
| Syllabus skill | Hyderabad listings, 5 Oct 2026 | Where it sits in v1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| network troubleshooting | 3,251 | Not a topic verb anywhere in v1.1 |
| access control list | 1,197 | 5.6 Security Fundamentals |
| vlan | 960 | 2.1 Network Access |
| ccna | 661 52 open to 0 years | The certificate itself |
| ospf | 615 | 3.4 IP Connectivity |
| spanning tree protocol | 488 | 2.5 Network Access |
| subnetting | 123 | 1.6 Network Fundamentals |
| wireless lan controller | 4 | 2.6, 2.7, 2.9 and 5.10 |
Read live on Naukri for Hyderabad and Secunderabad on 5 October 2026. These are keyword matches across the whole job board, so they include listings outside networking — we checked “ansible” and it returned 6,538, almost all DevOps roles rather than network automation, which is why we have left it out of the table. Treat the figures as relative demand signals, not vacancy counts for network engineers. Job-market data is a market estimate, not a guarantee of any outcome.
Is CCNA 200-301 routing and switching?
CCNA 200-301 includes routing and switching but is no longer a routing-and-switching-only certification. Cisco retired the separate CCNA Routing and Switching track in February 2020 and folded it into one CCNA. Routing sits in IP Connectivity at 25%, switching in Network Access at 20%, and the remaining 55% is fundamentals, services, security and automation.
The old name survives in search because a generation of job adverts used it. If a Hyderabad JD asks for “CCNA Routing and Switching” in 2026, it almost always means current CCNA — the recruiter has copied an older template. You do not need to find a retired exam.
Where it matters is study material. Books and course listings still carrying “Routing and Switching” in the title predate February 2020, which means they predate wireless and automation being part of the blueprint. That is two domains and 30% of the current exam missing. Check the exam code on the cover: if it is not 200-301, it is not this exam.
Where the CCNA syllabus sits inside the AimNxt Networking Ignite Programme
Cisco’s six CCNA 200-301 domains are taught as Module 1 of the AimNxt Networking Ignite Programme (NIP), a 180-hour programme of six modules including lab hours. The programme carries one year of LMS access and lab assistance, and Module 1 is listed in the curriculum as Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions (CCNA), with the same six domain headings Cisco publishes.
We are setting the modules out as the curriculum document states them, in order, because the point of this section is what comes after CCNA rather than a sales pitch. Module 1 is the syllabus on this page. Modules 2 to 4 are where the routing you learned in Domain 3.0 and the wireless you learned in Domain 2.0 get taken to enterprise scale.
Module 1 — Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions (CCNA)
The exam blueprint on this page: Network Fundamentals, Network Access, IP Connectivity, IP Services, Security Fundamentals, Automation and Programmability.
Module 2 — Implementing and Operating Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies (CCNP — 350-401 ENCOR)
Architecture and design, virtualisation, infrastructure, network assurance, security and automation at enterprise scale.
Module 3 — Implementing and Operating of Firewalls (Cisco / Paloalto / Fortigate)
Cisco ASA, Palo Alto PA Series and FortiGate: policies, NAT, IPS, VPNs, high availability and SSL inspection.
Module 4 — Implementing and Operating Enterprise Wireless Technologies (Cisco / Aruba)
Where Domain 2.0’s controller topics go next: WLC and Aruba Mobility Controller configuration, site surveys, RF planning, WIPS and Wi-Fi 6.
Module 5 — Soft skills / Cultural skills sessions
Communication, interpersonal skills, presentation and professional etiquette — the part of an interview the blueprint does not test.
Module 6 — Mock interview sessions with experts
Practice interviews with trainers who work in the field, so the first time you explain OSPF out loud is not in front of a hiring manager.
The lab is the part that matters for a syllabus this configuration-heavy, and the curriculum document lists it item by item: three routers, three next-generation firewalls, DNAC virtual access, three Layer 3 switches, two Layer 2 switches, two wireless LAN controllers, three wireless access points, an AAA server, fibre and Ethernet modules, patch cables and console cables. Eleven line items. Domain 3.0 happens on the routers, Domain 2.0 on the switches and controllers, topic 5.8 on the AAA server.
Two things we will not claim. AimNxt is an independent training provider, not a Cisco partner or an exam body — Cisco is the certification body for CCNA, and what AimNxt issues is an AimNxt certificate of completion. And the AimNxt Job Interview Guarantee program guarantees interview opportunities through the hiring-partner network, not a job, a placement or any salary; outcomes depend on your skills and how the interview goes.
Studying the CCNA 200-301 syllabus from Hyderabad
From Hyderabad you can study the CCNA 200-301 syllabus in a classroom at KPHB 5th Phase, Kukatpally, online in live batches, or hybrid, with weekday, weekend and fast-track timings. The campus sits on Brand Factory Road opposite PVR Nexus Mall, which puts it inside a metro ride for most of Kukatpally, Miyapur, Balanagar and Madhapur.
For working professionals the constraint is rarely the syllabus, it is console access. A 120-hour plan built from the weights above is about seven hours a week for seventeen weeks, and the configure-and-verify topics need a device at the end of those hours, not a simulator alone. Weekend batches at KPHB exist for exactly that reason. If you are weighing live classes against self-study, we worked the trade-off through properly in our guide to CCNA online training in India.
If you want the local practicalities — batch patterns, duration, how the 180 hours are spread — our CCNA course in Hyderabad guide covers them, and the full CCNA and CCNP networking course page lists the programme as it runs. Either way, ask one question of any institute you shortlist: which version of 200-301 does your material cover, and what happens to my batch in February 2027. The answer tells you how closely they are reading Cisco.
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