Which exams and textbooks do you need for the CCNA?

Curious Yellow

I'm thinking about getting my CCNA and have looked at the Cisco site.
http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/le11/learning_all_certification_exams_list.html

Unfortunately I haven't been able to find out which textbooks are necessary for the new set of exams. I've been meaning to take the exams for a while now and purchased this book previously http://www.amazon.co.uk/CCNA-Companion-Networking-Academy-Program/dp/1587131501/ref=sr_1_1/026-0049172-4349255?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191846001&sr=1-1
in order to study for it.

My questions are, now that the exam is changing, is this book still the recommended textbook? Does anyone know if Cisco is going to release some type of additional material so people who have purchased this textbook are not left regretting their purchase? I haven't been able to find anything on the Cisco site.

Also, how does this change the exams you need to do for the CCNA? Do you need to take the 640-802 along with the 640-816 and 640-822? Or is there still a single exam option? If there is, then is that exam called something else? Sorry if some of these are silly questions but I find it hard to understand the description on the Cisco site.

mikej412

Check out these recent threads

needed information regarding CCNA

todd lamle or wendell odom

The Cisco Network Academy did offer "bridge" courseware between the 640-607 and the 640-801 so that people with the old courses could cover just the new material -- but I don't know if there is a plan to do that for the new update exams. Everyone else has to buy a new book and read the stuff that doesn't look familiar and/or compare the new and old exam blueprints.

The 640-802 is the new Single Exam Option. The ICND1 and ICND2 exams are the 2 Exam option. If you take the ICND1 you get the new Cisco CCENT Certification.