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Summary: Great book.
Review: Thank you Mr. Lammle for the great book. I newer had any Cisco experience before. However, I pass the exam in first try with 85%. I bought the necessery books from Cisco Press, but they look enourmous. Mr. Lammle's book covers only materials you need to pass an exam and is very helpfull for people without previous experience. Review questions are very close to the CCNA exam questions. As a matter of fact, the questions in the book are more difficult than on the exam. Once again, thank you to Mr. Lammle.
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Summary: Excellent Study Guide
Review: This book is an excellent study guide. But only to be used as a study guide. AFter taking a CCNA course I recommend taking the course and then using the book as a reference guide not to be replaced. The software included with the book is excellent especially the CCNA quiz and IPCalc (a shareware product that calculates IP addresses.) This book should ONLY BE USED AS A STUDY GUIDE not as a teacher.
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Summary: The best CCNA study guide on the market, bar none.
Review: This book is an excellent study guide for passing the CCNA exam. There are many other CCNA study guides out there (I've talked with people who have purchased them), but this one from Sybex is the best. I used this book, and ONLY this book, as my preparation for the test, and I passed with an 88% (missed 8 out of 70). This is THE book to have, make NO mistake about it.
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Summary: This book does precisely what it says it will do.
Review: I am an MCSE+I with about five years of practical experience administering an NT-based network in a large government agency. Another group of people takes care of the internetwork backbone and all routers, enterprise servers, the firewall, etc.However, I was curious as to how these enterprise internetworking assets all worked together and interoperated with my LAN, so I decided to learn something about routers, bridges, switches, et. al., in my "copious spare time". Back in August of 1998, I entered a Cisco Regional Training Academy which offers the official Cisco CCNA curriculum at a local junior college. The instructor offered a grade of "A" in the course to anybody who became certified prior to the end of the academic semester final examination in May of 1999. Being lazy, I decided to go for it... ;-) On Friday, 19 MAR 99, I passed the CCNA on the first try using Lammle's book, the Syngress Press book and the Cisco Training Academy computer based training (CBT) material as my study materials. Thus, my perspective on Lammle's book vis a vis the Cisco Training Academy curriculum and the Syngress Press book may be well-nigh unique at this point in time. Both books and the Cisco CBT curriculum map to the Cisco test objectives. The Syngress book is less tightly focused than the other two. Lammle's diagrams are very good. Cisco's diagrams are outstanding. Diagrams in the Syngress book range from good to mediocre (IMHO). Lammle's end of chapter test questions are very close to many I saw on the CCNA exam. Cisco's end of chapter test questions are very poor indeed!!! Syngress' questions fall in between. I liked the "Two Minute Drill" sections in the Syngress book. The hands-on part of the Cisco Training Academy with the opportunity to get practical router experience with five 25xx series routers is, as one might expect, what really sets it apart from the Network Press and Syngress study guides. I predict that many graduates of the Cisco Training Academy will be in for a very rude awakening if they take the CCNA certification examination expecting to find simple questions on a par to those they have seen in the Cisco Training Academy end of chapter quizzes and tests. :-( I have recommended Lammle's CCNA book, particularly the end of chapter questions, in the highest terms as supplementary study material for the CCNA exam to the college professor teaching the Cisco Training Academy in my local area. Lammle's book does not subsitute for hands-on experience, but if you don't have access to a router, it _is_ the next best thing. N.B. As always, "Your mileage may vary."
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Summary: It is a study guide guys, you should know what it means
Review: I've just received this book, and I finish reading it in less than 72 hours, I am an MCSE, have been working in an ISP for 2 year. I rate it very higly, though I'll state that it is ONLY A STUDY GUIDE. People who wants everything in one book, and don't want to go for the extra mile, shouldn't even try with cisco certifications, This book gives good coverage for the whole exam objectives, though some of the concepts are not covered in detail, you should go and look for them somewhere else, specially the Cisco Documentation (CCO) which is available online for everybody wants to increase his knowledge. In fact I read the definition of simple networks searched on every single acronym in Cisco Documentation with some hands experience on routers. And the whole book was a piece of cake. I am not worried by the exam, I'll pass if only read this book, and had a brain, but what about CCNP, and CCIE I don't think so. The language the book was written in is very simple, a naive can become a CCNA, but this the first of 1000 miles. Thanks Todd for a wonderful STUDY GUIDE.
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Summary: Great Exam Prep and reference
Review: This book provides great exam preparation and is useful as a reference. The review questions at the end of the chapter are encompassing. If you can answer these questions successfully you will pass the CCNA exam. The CD included has the questions and you can take the same review questions in the book from the CD and simulate the exam enviroment. The only downside is that the tests on the CD only cover the chapters and do not simulate a 70 question test with various questions encompassing the entire subject matter required.
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Summary: Perfect for the CCNA. Helps to get hands-on with routers.
Review: This is a great book for someone coming from the Microsoft or Novell world and want to start working on Internetworking. Cisco is a great product, everyone knows that. If you can get Cisco CCIE certified, you have it made. The CCNA will help you get the start you need toward the CCNA. I looked at four different companies for CCNA material. Cisco, Osborne, Sybex and Cisco Press. The Cisco material is a $400 waste of good money. It is all self study and way too much information, most of which you will never be tested on. The Osborne book was the absolute worst book I have ever seen. I swear the authors never even took the test. Don't waste your time with Osborne/Syngress. The Sybex CCNA Study Guide was absolutly perfect in every way. It has very few errors (see the errata sheet on the Sybex web site to see the few errors). The review questions were real close to the exam and will really help you get an understanding of the test objectives. The Cisco Press ICRC book was good, too many errors though, and it DOES NOT follow the test objectives. My vote is for both the Sybex CCNA Study Guide and the Cisco Press ICRC book. You will pass the test if you have the Sybex CCNA Study Guide. My $.02
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Summary: Over all Good Book
Review: Good things: Very precise, not much detail. Good esay explanation. Some nice historical notes about some protocols, and finally a good explanation of CISCO IOS with examples. Bad points: Simple grammar and language mistakes. Q&A at the end are not as tricky as CISCO's. Some times not enough details (like ISDN).
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Summary: Perfect study guide for CCNA exam
Review: I knew nothing about routers and read this book and passed the exam on the first try. The exam was not easy. This book helped me to thoroughly prepare. I have also read the ICRC book from Cisco press . It is not as well written as the Sybex book is. Kudos to Todd Lammle for a well written book!
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Summary: A 'CCNA book for dummies', simple and informative.
Review: The book was extremely easy to comprehend. Most of the information was there, although slightly scattered around, and the objectives set by cisco, although met, could have been brought about in a more structured way. The CD was a big laugh, there are some mistakes in the book, but as another reader pointed out, the multiple choice questions did help when it came to the real test. I have very limited experience with routers, and basically sat down and read the book for 1 week and JUST passed, on my first try! kudo's to lammle :)
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