CCNA 200-301 v2.0 Practice Tests: 500 Questions for 2027
500 questions on IP routing, switching, network services and the new AI domain, with an explanation for every answer
Are you ready for the new CCNA? From February 3, 2027 the only CCNA 200-301 exam you can book is version 2.0. The exam code is the same, but the content is not. These practice tests tell you, domain by domain, whether you are ready for it.
This practice set contains 500 original questions in five practice tests of 100 questions each. All of them are written against the CCNA 200-301 v2.0 exam topics that Cisco published in May 2026, and every test follows the official weighting: 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%.
Why not use older CCNA 200-301 practice tests? Because v2.0 is a major revision. Six domains became five. QoS, NTP, REST APIs and JSON, Terraform, wireless controller GUI configuration and much of the old theory are gone. New or expanded are OSPFv3 for IPv6, HSRP and VRRP interpretation, SFTP and SCP, DNS record troubleshooting, storm control and RA guard, client troubleshooting on Windows, macOS and Linux, hypervisors and containers, and a new domain on agentic AI, prompt selection, network management approaches, SNMP, Ansible and syslog. The verbs changed too: many CCNA 200-301 v2.0 topics now ask you to troubleshoot and diagnose, not just describe. Practice material written for v1.1 prepares you for an exam that no longer exists.
The five tests build up:
- Test 1, Groundwork: one concept per question, your baseline.
- Test 2, In Practice: short scenarios and easily confused features.
- Test 3, Trade-offs: two plausible answers, one deciding detail.
- Test 4, Under the Hood: commands, defaults and show output.
- Test 5, Exam Day: a full simulation with long, mixed scenarios.
Every answer option has its own feedback, so you learn why a wrong choice is wrong and where it would be right. Each question also has an overall explanation with a link to Cisco documentation or the relevant RFC.
PrepKiwi reports your score per domain after every attempt. The passing score is 80% for tests 1 to 4 and 85% for test 5, deliberately higher than you might expect for the real exam.
What this practice set is not: it is not a video course, and it contains multiple-choice and multi-select questions only. The real CCNA 200-301 exam also uses simulations and drag-and-drop items, so combine these tests with hands-on lab practice and the official Cisco exam topics.
Groundwork: Core Concepts, Commands and Addressing
100 questions · 155 minutes · pass mark 80%
Your baseline. 100 direct questions across all five CCNA v2.0 domains: interface and cable faults, IPv4 and IPv6 addressing, wireless principles, DHCP, VLANs and trunks, Rapid PVST+, static routing, OSPF, HSRP/VRRP, AAA, NAT, ACLs, Layer 2 security, SNMP, syslog, Ansible and the new AI topics. Each question tests one concept with a short stem, so you see quickly which domain needs work. 12 questions are multi-select. You have 155 minutes and need 80% to pass. That bar is higher than you may expect: Cisco does not publish a percentage, and practising at home is easier than a proctored exam, so aim for a clear margin. Take this test cold, before you review anything, and use the per-domain score as your starting point.
In Practice: Everyday Configuration and Troubleshooting
100 questions · 160 minutes · pass mark 80%
Short, realistic scenarios from daily network work. A user without an address, a phone in the wrong VLAN, a trunk that drops traffic, an OSPF neighbor stuck in a state, a NAT rule that only works for one host. Many questions ask you to tell apart features and commands that are easily confused: root guard or BPDU guard, standard or extended ACL, HSRP or VRRP preemption, SCP or SFTP. You will also meet your first questions that ask you to judge a recommendation from an AI network assistant. 100 questions, 14 multi-select, 160 minutes, passing score 80%.
Trade-offs: When Two Answers Look Right
100 questions · 165 minutes · pass mark 80%
Two answers look right; one detail in the scenario decides. This test trains the reading skill the v2.0 exam rewards: spotting the constraint that makes one option correct and the other merely plausible. Think floating static routes that never take over, a DHCP pool that never matches the relay address, a guard feature that only acts on PortFast ports, or an ACL that works but sits in the wrong place. Stems are longer and include short routing-table and show-command snippets. 100 questions, 14 multi-select, 165 minutes, passing score 80%.
Under the Hood: Commands, Defaults and Show Output
100 questions · 130 minutes · pass mark 80%
The details that separate a pass from a near miss. Exact command syntax, default values, timers and priorities, the order of configuration steps, and reading real show-command output: show ip interface brief, show interfaces counters, show spanning-tree, show etherchannel summary, show ip ospf neighbor, show standby brief, show ip nat translations, show logging and more. Stems are shorter than in test 3, but every value matters. 100 questions, 16 multi-select, 130 minutes, passing score 80%.
Exam Day: Full-Length CCNA v2.0 Simulation
100 questions · 155 minutes · pass mark 85%
Your readiness gate. 100 questions with the longest stems in this practice set, several constraints per scenario, show-output snippets, all five domains mixed, and AI-assistant recommendations to evaluate. The clock is the tightest of the five tests relative to the reading load. Take it in one uninterrupted sitting, without notes, as if it were the real exam. You need 85% to pass here, higher than in the other tests: Cisco reports only a scaled score and a pass or fail, and the real exam adds simulations and drag-and-drop items that this format cannot reproduce, so a comfortable margin on this test is the signal you want before booking. 100 questions, 16 multi-select, 155 minutes.
What you will practice
- Test yourself on all five CCNA 200-301 v2.0 domains with 500 original questions weighted like the official exam topics
- Troubleshoot IPv4 and IPv6 addressing, DHCP, VLANs, trunks, EtherChannel and Rapid PVST+ from scenarios and show output
- Interpret routing tables, static routes, single-area OSPFv2/OSPFv3 and HSRP/VRRP status as the v2.0 blueprint asks
- Learn from feedback on every answer option plus an explanation with a link to Cisco or standards documentation
- Evaluate AI network assistant recommendations and choose prompts that respect data classification, persona and format
- Build from single-concept questions to a full 100-question simulation and see your score per exam domain
- Practise the v2.0 topics that older material skips: SFTP/SCP, DNS records, storm control, RA guard and syslog facilities
- Configure-level recall for AAA with TACACS+ and RADIUS, NAT/PAT on IOS XE, IPv4 ACLs and Layer 2 security features
Exam domains covered
Who is this for
This practice set is for anyone preparing for the Cisco CCNA 200-301 v2.0 exam that starts on February 3, 2027: helpdesk and desktop support staff moving into networking, junior network and systems administrators, students and career changers who have finished a CCNA course or book, and cloud, server or security people who need a solid networking foundation. It is also for candidates who studied for CCNA v1.1 and now test after the cutover. v2.0 keeps the 200-301 code but reorganises the exam into five domains, adds a domain on AI and network operations, shifts from describing to troubleshooting, adds topics such as OSPFv3, HSRP and VRRP interpretation, SFTP/SCP, DNS records, storm control, RA guard and client troubleshooting on Windows, macOS and Linux, and drops QoS, NTP, REST APIs, Terraform and wireless controller GUI configuration. This practice set gives you realistic practice tests with thorough explanations. It is not a complete training course and it does not include hands-on simulations.
Requirements
- Basic networking knowledge: what an IP address, a subnet, a switch and a router are. You do not need to be certified yet.
- Familiarity with the Cisco IOS command line helps, because many questions show commands and show output. A lab (Packet Tracer or real gear) is recommended alongside this practice set.
- These are practice tests, not a video course. Use them next to Cisco's official exam topics and your own study material or labs, not instead of them.
Free exam guide
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