goatama wrote: » {REMOVED QUOTED REPLY} Actually, not so much. N+ is a groundwork of networking theory, the CCENT is a groundwork of *Cisco* networking. There's a difference. CCENT you need a fundamental understanding of Cisco hardware and its technologies. There was no real subnetting work in the N+ (I took it in 2010, so it may have changed since), but there was plenty in the CCENT. The CCENT included things like OSPF and BGP, neither of which were mentioned in N+. I could go on, but my point is that the CCENT is great for learning about Cisco networking, but the Network+ gives you the foundation for network theory.