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Summary: Right on the money for the new CCNP Switching Exam
Review: This book was very well written. I couldn't put it down. It was technical, but funny, and prepared me for the exam. The written labs, review questions, and flash cards were excatly what I needed to help me pass the exam. I scored a 910, which isn't bad since I hadn't worked on a switch before reading this book. The amount of in-depth information on the Catalyst switch series, mostly the 5000, was amazing. The exam had questions based on the Catalyst 1900 and 5000 series, and this book had everything needed on the Catalyst switch series to pass the exam. I am well pleased with all the Sybex books for Cisco certification.
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Summary: Covered most of the basics
Review: This book, although very good is not enough to pass the Switching exam. I used the Cisco CIM as well as the SwitchSim simulator to prepare. The SwitchSim software was flawed as it was not compatable with this book. Only one chapter was dedicated to multi-layer switching and my exam was dedicated to PLENTY of MLS questions not covered in this book. I passed the exam (781) because the CIM was able to pick up the slack. I went with Lammle because of his outstanding CCNA book and will continue with him for the rest of my CCNP.
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Summary: Excellent book.
Review: This is an excellent book that covers all you need to know to pass the CCNP Switching exam.Although it contained typos (consistent with most Lammle books) the material was presented in an easy to learn and mostly fun way. I found that the book focused a lot on multi-cast and I had only 3 multi-cast questions on the exam (though you may have more). I studied the commands but didn't have the hardware to practice on and still did very well on the exam, taking only 30 minutes of the allowed 75. If you are looking for a good book for this exam this could be the one. The Cisco Press book is also supposed to be good but I haven't got it yet. This would have been 5-stars but the typos and the fact that the book concentrated on some stuff that wasn't on the exam prevented me from giving it a perfect rating.
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Summary: Good book, but look out, test looks completely different.
Review: This was the only book I used for my switching exam and I passed. I liked the book since its easy to read than other books, but this book has lots of spelling and some content errors (and lack of details). One thing I like to stress is that be in for big surprise when you take the test as questions were nothing like the questions in this book(surprised). Only reason that I passed was that I think this test was quite easy (compared to other tests and if you have experience). I think 50% of the questions were answered based on this book and rest from deduction and experience. I would recommend this book based on following criteria: 1 - if you have experience then this book is good since its easy to read book. 2 - if you don't have experience (or little) then I would recommend going with this book plus one other guide (I used sybex/boson combination with good result for routing). Good luck!
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Summary: Good book to start with...
Review: took my switching 2.0 exam, passed it, and well i had this book alongside with the cisco-press edition, and i must say, its an easier read compared to the latter. however, i would recommend the CCIE Lan switching txt if u really desire more info on switching (apart from just passing the exam). forget back the exam-crams, they arent much relevant meat compared to todd's version.
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Summary: Yes It Does Cover HSRP!
Review: Try reading pages 313 to 321 and you will find coverage of HSRP. Good god and these people want to be CCNP's? I give up!
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Summary: Yes It Does Cover HSRP!
Review: Try reading pages 313 to 321 and you will find coverage of HSRP. Good god and these people want to be CCNP's? I give up!
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