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Summary: Got me my CCNA!!
Review: This is one of the best Certification books i've seen. very helpful end of the chapter questions, end of the book questions, and before you get started questions... The book does have some errors, but the good far out weighs the bad, I did not use the e-trainer to study, just the book and i passed my first time taking the test, unlike with other certification guides. This book will get you your CCNA, but don't think your gonna be a Cisco guru ... the book does what it promises, gets you that certification... but you need years of experience to be a guru...
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Summary: Best way to get your CCNA!
Review: This is the BEST CBT course I have ever taken. Excellent in explaining each topic you need to understand. THE ONLY WAY IN MY OPINION IN GETTING YOUR CCNA!
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Summary: Absolutely terrible!
Review: This is the first and last Sybex book that I buy. I think this book was written in Greek. I have bought a lot of computer books. I bought all ExamCram books when I was studying for my MCSE, their great.. But this book is down right awful!Chap 4 and 5 were good but the rest of the book is very poorly written... If you are looking for a book that is unclear and won't give you what you need then this is it. Oh.. Their E-trainer and the hands on labs were ok but most don't work.. esp. the switch lab.. Good Luck.. MattMan/MCSE
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Summary: This is the best package!
Review: This is the only package you need to pass new Cisco CCNA 2.0 exam. Although, Cisco Press's exam kit is another good source for this exam, you will not get the same quality for the price you paying for this. Good luck all!
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Summary: very good preparation kit, covers the exam
Review: This kit is probably the cheapest way to get certified for CCNA 2.0. My employer paid for the ICND training in preparation for the CCNA exam, and I have to say that this book covers the material in a more structured way. The labs with the virtual lab are good, but don't expect anything to work outside those labs. For the exam, the labs are enough though, but if you want more pratice with routers, this virtual lab is not enough.
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Summary: Read, Studied, and Passed the CCNA Test in One week
Review: This kit was an excellent study tool. With no networking experiance I was able to learn the material and pass the test in just one week! I highly recommend this kit to everyone attempting to pass the test. The book is extremely comprehensive and the router simulator is good. Additionally the discussion on subneteting was the best I have ever seen, very clear and easy to understand.
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Summary: Not so great, additional references needed for passing
Review: This package with the simulator seems to be sufficient for learning the stuff on the exam, however there were some questions on the exam which are from material not covered in this book. So I would recommend that before taking the exam refer other books on the same subject, and also take a look at cram sheets available on the Internet. However the topics on VLAN and IP addressing were excellently covered by this book. Other than that if you have read books like Data Communications by William Stallings and Computer Networks by Tanenbaum , this book gives a sense of deja vu.
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Summary: Over-hyped, over-sold, under-corrected and downright lame.
Review: Yeh, yeh, yeh, I know this is suppose to be the best book on the market, but geeze you'd think Lammle et. al. could put half as much effort into correcting the mistakes and errors as they do into the marketing... Yes, yes about 1/3 of the errors *are* covered on the errata page at their website... but guys, this is the second edition in, what, it's 5th printing?? Lots of errors, contradicitons, gross errors (similar with CD/flashcards). Virtually all printouts are "cut," and one has to search repeatedly for the very rare complete, i.e. helpful, printout. Some *very* poor diagrams throughout, e.g. figure 10.9 in which you have to guess which router is which, guess who has what addresses, guess which route is where, etc. - and this is suppose to be helpful? That's the book. And then we come to the complete debacle of an "e-trainer." What a mess. Yeh, yeh the first third works okay, but then it's very rapidly downhill from there. I got sucked in by the hype 'cause the "Virtual Lab e-trainer" was "Designed for Use in Conjunction with Sybex's" CCNA (Lammle) Guide. What the advertising didn't mention was that many (most?) of the labs in the book simply are not *in* the supposed "e-trainer." In some chapters only one in three labs is included, in others one-half of one lab out of four labs in the book is semi-on-the-e-trainer; another section has only one out of seven labs from that chapter in/on the "e-trainer." E.G. there is virtually no WAN coverage (no PPP, no HDLC, no ATM, no ISDN, and an extremely poor Frame-Relay). The IPX numbering scheme is amazingly fouled up (e.g. all three routers having the same MAC addresses??). It just goes on and on, or, more accurately, it doesn't go on at all. It sometimes does not remove static routes, it tends to apply clock rates to all serial interfaces, in telneting it'll actually change the hostname, duplicate hostnames, all sorts of things. To say the software is "buggy" would be an understatement. And, of course, there are a very great many commands not supported. This e-trainer mess comes across like a *very* bad piece of shareware/freeware.... Yeh, yeh, it might be better than nothing - but certainly not by much. And, yes, if you've never touched a router in your life it *might* be helpful (but, I suspect, it might just as easily be more frustrating than helpful). Buy the book, and hope you find the errors - and I am authentically sad if this actually *is* the "best" book out there. Habraken has a pretty good book. Forget the "e-trainer" though - just about a thorough waste of money. ...
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Summary: way over done!
Review: Yup, this will get you through the test but when you walk out of the testing center you will think like I did: I paid way too much to prepare for this test. All I really needed was just one book and no fancy fluff. Hey, you do not need router experience to pass this test, just know your material. Keep it simple and dont waste your money on fluff. Cheers
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