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Summary: Not a single page wasted
Review: I used this book as well as Odom's Certification Guide (another excellent book!) and passed Exam 640-507 with 935. This book is an enormous improvement over its popular but poorly-written predecessor, ICRC. While ICRC is incoherent and opaque, ICND is written with a much better style and packed with almost error-free information on what you need to know for the exam. The author devotes the right amount of discussion to each topic, not too much but not little either. ICRC usually beats around the bush when it comes to the most confusing part, such as routing loop and its remedies, IP subnetting, and access list wildcard. Intriguingly, wherever ICRC missed, the book makes up for it with an excellent explanation. Looks like Cisco is listening as attentively as their switches. Plan enough time for this book. It will be an intensive reading project. I didn't highlight any page because, if I want to highlight anything, I would have to highlight the whole book. Good job, Mr. McQuerry!
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Summary: good book
Review: I was very impressed with this book. The figures used for the examples were very helpful. the section that went over how to convert ip address and figure out subnet was great- best ive seen so far. It makes it very easy to understand. The only little complain I have was the organization of the material. seemed to jump around a bit. otherwise it is very very good!
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Summary: From the horses mouth
Review: If your preparing for the CCNA why not hear it straight from the horses mouth, Cisco press goes into great detail, so not only will you know the stuff to pass the exam, but it will stick with you for a long time, a must for any CCNA.
the output of commands are great, however one thing that it lacks are LABS, this isn't a Test-Prep type book, so dont expect, Labs, and extended exercises and that sort of thing, a powerful combination are this book and the Sybex Press CCNA prep book.
armed with these two, you'll pass the exam for sure.
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Summary: From the horses mouth
Review: If your preparing for the CCNA why not hear it straight from the horses mouth, Cisco press goes into great detail, so not only will you know the stuff to pass the exam, but it will stick with you for a long time, a must for any CCNA.
the output of commands are great, however one thing that it lacks are LABS, this isn't a Test-Prep type book, so dont expect, Labs, and extended exercises and that sort of thing, a powerful combination are this book and the Sybex Press CCNA prep book.
armed with these two, you'll pass the exam for sure.
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Summary: A good source for quality material
Review: Instead of taking courses for the CCNA, I decided to configure the self-study route (ha ha) and studied from a few books, including this one. Just passed CCNA with 94% marks! The trick is to find a good book like this one, study well and take lots of sample tests. Good Luck!
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Summary: Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices
Review: Just passed the CCNA exam with help from this book. The biggest problem with this book is the typographical errors that are very frustrating and some very wrong and confusing examples (ipx access lists). The material covered in this book is very good and very helpful. You have to look past the errors.
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Summary: Worked for me
Review: One of the first things you read when you open this book is that you can read the book from cover to cover without problems. The other use is to be able to use it as a reference. All topics covered with easy to understand english. The best book I've run across no doubt.
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Summary: tedious
Review: Take a decent user manual, remove 3 scoops of details, add 1 scoop of errors, 2 scoops of ambiguities, and puff to 5 times its volume with repetitions, disorganization, and verbosity, and you've got this turkey. See _The Switch Book_ by Rich Seifert if you want to know how switches work. See _Upgrading and Repairing Networks_ by Terry Ogletree for a good general primer.
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Summary: I would recommend this book if you have
Review: taken ICRC earlier, but never got around to taking the CCNA test. This was exactly my situation, and I wasn't excited about having to take the ICND course, so I decided to buy the book and see if it would fill in the blanks. This is a well written book, and one that allows the reader to learn the new material that was added to the ICND course, such as switching and bridging, without having to take yet another expensive course. Cisco is improving their books, and this book closely parallels the $2000+ ICND course, thus providing the reader with many of the benefits of attending the course without the cost. Having said that, this book will not completely prepare you for taking the CCNA 2.0 test. I recommend reading this book and then the Todd Lammle Sybex CCNA book to help prepare for the test.
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Summary: Great Conceptual Review
Review: The binding of this book, which struts the CCNA #640-507 label, is slightly misleading. A beginner will not pass the test studying this book alone. That being said, this is a great book to start with. The topics covered, from Spanning Tree Protocol to VLANs and Access Lists, are explained in detail with steps for implementing the technology thrown in. More comprehensive configuration examples and having those examples grouped logically would be a plus, and would have raised my rating to 5 stars. It is important to get a good grasp on the subjects presented in the book for taking the test and for performing the job. If an individual does not have much hands on experience, reading about the same technologies from more than one author (in a variety of books) will help greatly to understand networking concepts from all angles. I would definitely suggest reading the book... But for those in a hurry to get the knowledge and get on with the test, you should check out other options.
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