Appendix Q. Topics from Previous Editions

Cisco changes the exams, renaming the exams on occasion, and changing the exam numbers every time Cisco changes the exam with a new blueprint. Every time Cisco changes the exams, we make new editions of the books—and we even made a new edition of the book once without a new version of the exam. And although the publisher restarts the edition number at 1 every time the exam has a major name change, this book is one of two books in a set for the CCNA R&S exam, and these are basically the eighth editions of the content in these books.

As with every new edition, the topics Cisco chooses to put in the current exam dictates the topics I choose to put in the book; however, that means some topics disappear from ...

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