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Summary: It's a waste of time to read the book
Review: excellent and well paced the cd covered the material very well.
I recommend for any routing 5 students or pre ccnps.
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Summary: Save Your money until a 200 page ERRATA comes out
Review: First, I will start with the one positive thing about the book. It attempts to take an in depth look at routing.
Now the negatives:
1. So many errors and typos that it is barely readable and will leave you wondering what is correct and what is not.
2. Too long and wordy!
3. The author states that some things aren't on the test that are on the test.
4. NO ERRATA FOR THOSE OF US THAT DROPPED [a lot of money] PLUS TAX ON THIS BOOK!The bottom line... I hope this book isn't going to be the new standard for the Cisco Press books....
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Summary: Don't buy this book
Review: I am very disappointed after finishing this book. At first, the book had a few minor mistakes which could be clarified from other sources. As I approach to the end of the book, it was not worth my time to use this book as my primary study guide. The way it was written was terribly messy. Examples and figures just were confusing (check out Figure 9-6/Example 9-1). BGP is already a hard topic to grasp, but this book really help you to be TOTALLY CONFUSED. Some test questions on the CD had questions that you really can't find an answer for in the book. This is my first review ever on any book and regret it had to be a bad review. I am very disappointed by it as the usually reliable Cisco Press had given me such a bad experience. I urge anyone who's planning to use this book for the exam to think twice before purchasing this book.
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Summary: An Okay Book.
Review: I rated it three stars because it did not live up to my expectations. I just took the routing exam and passed using this book as my sole study guide. The writing lacks humor unlike some of the american-authored technical books. I had to read some of the paragraphs several times just to understand it. Okay, I'll list down all the things I hate about this book: 1. There are quite a few mistakes. 2. The diagrams are not very accurate. 3. The commands in the example doesn't include the prompt. 4. It's too long. Given that it is long, the contents are still not enough for you to be able to answer all the questions in the exam. I guess you really have to have a hands-on experience of the routing protocols to get a higher score. But I think this book is still better than the Sybex book because it has more and better coverage of the exam topics. Also, Gough said in the book that Route Maps are not included in the exam, DON'T BELIEVE HER, it's there! I almost had a heart attack when i saw one question about it. I didn't pay much attention to Route maps because I believed in what the author said.
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Summary: I liked it
Review: I thought it was a pretty good book. I used this book and a few cisco whitepapers, and I passed the first time. I thought it covered each topic more than well enough to pass the test.
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Summary: It's a waste of time to read the book
Review: I totally agree with all of the bad comments on this book. I spent more than a month to read through it because I trusted it to be a good book. However during this period too much of my effort were spent on struggling with those misleading presentations and mistakes in the book. I kept looking up in white papers and other materials to make myself understand those topics. When I eventually understand everything, I concluded that the studying experience would be much much less frustrating and time-consuming if I chose a better book.
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Summary: This book is by NO means from hard work
Review: I totally agree with folks that gave the criticism to this book before me. The book is
1. Full of typos and errors! An incredible and inexcusable number of them have been seen here and there. I've been in US for several years and have NEVER ever seen any book, any book published in this country with that many mistakes!
2. Written in obscure British English. I really don't understand why they picked an Englishwoman to do this job. The English she uses in this book is technology-wise non-standard and unclear.
My conclusion is, you grab any CCIE in Silicon Valley who is conscientious for his job and speaks American English and he/she can do a much better job than Mr. Gough. The book is NOT worth to buy.
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Summary: Not worth the purchase.
Review: I'm quite disappointed with this book. I have been diligently reading it for the last week. At first, I noticed an abundance of typos. I just finished reading the OSPF chapters. Too much effort is wasted trying to figure out what the author is trying to say. The typos are now showing up in very critical areas. Information isn't consistent. After spending a very long time trying to understand the material, I realized that it was the authors presentation and typos that I was trying to work through not the actual material. Rather than waste anymore of my time, I'm going to purchase another book and start again.
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Summary: Not the best, but it did help
Review: This book made so much more sense to me only after I read Todd Lamels CCNP Routing book. It has about the same info., but Todds books are so much clearer and easier to read. This book just jumps from one thing to another, it does not flow. I used this book for the new BSCI exam, I know it dosn't cover IS-IS and yes IS-IS is heavily tested on the exam, I got at least six questions. I would suggest using this book as only one of your resources. there were at least three questions I can think of that I could only find the answers in this book. I have passed two exams so far using these three resources: Todd Lamels books, Cisco press books (as a Reference),and Boson practice questions.
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Summary: A bit of a disappointment
Review: You would think anything Cisco attach's their name to should be first rate. Unfortunately, that doesn't hold true for this book. I have to agree with the others that the language and diagrams were far too difficult to understand to be of any use. I plan on using another study guide, along with Routersim software to pass the exam.
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