Cisco CCNA practice exams
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- Exam code
- 200-301
- Cost
- $300USD
- Questions
- Approximately 100
- Duration
- 120minutes
- Passing score
- Not published by Cisco (variable scaled score)
- Level
- Mid level
- Study guide
- How to prepare
- Sources
- 123official pages
- Practice all PBQs
- 2tasks
- Format
- Multiple choice, drag-and-drop, and lab simulations
CCNA practice exams
2 full-length forms, 100 questions each, apportioned to the published domain weightings.
A campus uses group identifier 1 for the gateway in every VLAN. An engineer worries that the identifiers clash. What makes the reuse safe?
The answer
Each group's scope is a single segment only
Checked against
datatracker.ietf.org, checked August 2026The scope of each virtual router is restricted to a single LAN.
What the exam tests
Exam domains and official weightings
The percentage is the exam weighting; the bar is how many verified questions we hold there, so a short bar is where our bank is thin.
- Network Fundamentals20%41 verified
- Network Access20%41 verified
- IP Connectivity25%51 verified
- IP Services10%21 verified
- Security Fundamentals15%31 verified
- Automation and Programmability10%21 verified
Every CCNA objective, with practice questions mapped to each one
What the exam actually asks you to do
Multiple choice and multiple response, drag-and-drop, simlets (a shared topology with several questions hanging off it), and full simulations where you configure real device software in the exam.
Item formats
- Multiple choice
- Multiple response
- Drag and drop
- Simlet
- Simulation
The highlighted formats are the ones you cannot answer from memory alone. Cisco, certification exam tutorial ↗
The part of CCNA you cannot memorize
Performance-based questions are where memorized dumps fail, because you cannot memorize your way through configuring or analyzing something. A dump can tell you which letter was marked correct. It cannot read the output on the screen in front of you and tell you what it means.
We built 2 of them for CCNA, across 2 interaction types. They score with partial credit, and every one ends with a walkthrough of the reasoning rather than just an answer key.
- Log and output analysis
- Read a real log excerpt, firewall rule set, or command output, then answer what it tells you.
- Packet trace
- Follow a packet across a network, open a console on any device along the way, and say where it stops and why.
Fix a broken network, at a real command line
The CCNA exam puts you at a device and scores what you configured. A lab does the same thing: you get a network with something wrong in it, a console on every device, and a list of conditions your configuration has to satisfy. Check your work as often as you like, and it tells you how far off each one is rather than just marking it wrong.
It runs in your browser. Nothing is installed and no answer is stored, so any configuration that satisfies the conditions passes, not just the one we had in mind.
- Nobody at Depot can reach the new Assembly server
The Assembly server went in last night. The link to it was never finished, and Depot has no way out.
about 20 minutes
- Guest wifi can browse the finance server
A guest on the visitor network can open the finance share. Staff need it, and guests must not have it.
about 25 minutes
Between sittings
The same bank the numbered forms are assembled from.
Quick Practice
Open now
All 206 verified questions, untimed, with the explanation after each answer.
Domain Drill
Open now
Every domain on its own, for the area a score report says is weakest.
Review Missed
Fills as you go
Re-asks the questions you got wrong. Nothing to review until you miss something.
Where CCNA fits
Cisco network track
Cisco removed formal prerequisites, so each step is a recommendation. CCNP needs a core exam plus one concentration; CCIE adds a hands-on lab.
Cisco’s free resources
Study from the source. Everything below is published by the vendor, free to read, and is what our own questions are written from:
Official CCNA exam page & objectives ↗Keep reading
- Free CCNA practice test
Ten real questions, playable now. No account, no card.
- CCNA exam objectives
The full official blueprint, with practice pages on covered objectives.
- CCNA passing score
The exact cut score, what kind of number it is, and the retake terms.
- How hard is CCNA?
An honest difficulty read from the format, the clock and the weights.
- What CCNA costs
The voucher price, the retake, and what renewal costs across the cycle.
- CCNA guide
Who it is for, study plans by experience level, and whether it is worth it.
Cheat sheets
Printable reference tables, free.
Compared with
Side by side on cost, difficulty, and which one to take first.
Frequently asked questions
How many questions are on the CCNA 200-301 exam?
Cisco doesn't publish an exact count, but candidates typically see around 100 questions in 120 minutes, mixing multiple choice, drag-and-drop, and simulation items. Cisco also doesn't publish the passing score.
Is CCNA harder than Network+?
Generally yes. CCNA goes deeper into configuration and verification, you're expected to read and interpret IOS output, configure OSPF and VLANs, and subnet quickly under time pressure.
Can I use CCNA dumps to pass?
Using braindumps violates Cisco's certification agreement and can permanently ban you from Cisco exams. Dumps also collapse on lab-simulation questions, which require you to actually configure devices. Practice from the blueprint instead.