CCNA Routing & Switching Refresh

[RTFM]

https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/blogs/community_cafe/2016/05/17/ccna-refresh

[deanwebb]

And, with those changes... 20 August 2016 is the last day to take the current 2.0 version of the test. http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/training-events/training-certifications/certifications/associate/ccna-routing-switching.html

[wintermute000]

Syllabus looks great. DNS/DHCP definitely critical for newbies. BGP finally.
Looks way broader than the old stuff!

[icecream-guy]

Syllabus looks great. DNS/DHCP definitely critical for newbies. BGP finally.
Looks way broader than the old stuff!

Knowledge of QoS concepts. Including marking, shaping, and policing mechanisms to manage congestion of various types of traffic


that surprised me, that's a big concept for the noobs. 
Guess I got to think about taking the new exams to freshen my CCNA knowledge for IoT and SDN

exam topics here:
https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/community/certifications/ccna/ccna-exam/exam-topics

[NetworkGroover]

Syllabus looks great. DNS/DHCP definitely critical for newbies. BGP finally.
Looks way broader than the old stuff!

Knowledge of QoS concepts. Including marking, shaping, and policing mechanisms to manage congestion of various types of traffic


that surprised me, that's a big concept for the noobs. 
Guess I got to think about taking the new exams to freshen my CCNA knowledge for IoT and SDN

exam topics here:
https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/community/certifications/ccna/ccna-exam/exam-topics

That's so odd.  I would never expect an "associate-level" engineer to be familiar with something that is such a huge pain in the arse, and varies by product, vendor, etc.  I would never expect that level of engineer to implement end-to-end QoS.  I hope it's extremely high level and not vendor-specific.

EDIT - Though, I will say, it is Cisco, so they won't care about the larger picture - just their stuff with the assumption you're running an all Cisco shop.