 | Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com | CCNA Official Exam Certification Library, Third Edition, is the newest edition of the all-time best-selling CCNA self-study preparation package. This comprehensive review and practice package is designed for the latest CCNA 640-802 exams. The two books contained in this package, CCENT/CCNA ICND1 Official Exam Certification Guide, Second Edition, and CCNA ICND2 Official Exam Certification Guide, Second Edition, present complete reviews and a more challenging and realistic preparation experience. The books are updated to cover all the new 640-802 exam objectives, such as security, wireless, IPv6, and troubleshooting.
Please note that while this is the Third Edition of the Library, the two books inside are Second Editions. This is correct, and the editions align differently because of changes in the names of the exams, from the old INTRO and ICND to the new ICND1 and ICND2 formats.
What can you do with the CCNA Official Exam Certification Library?
- Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes
- Review key concepts with Exam Preparation Tasks
- Practice with hundreds of exam questions on the CD-ROM
- Learn about more complex topics with over one hour of video training
CCNA Official Exam Certification Library, Third Edition, presents you with an organized test preparation routine through the use of proven series elements and techniques. “Do I Know This Already” quizzes open each chapter and allow you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section. Chapter ending Exam Preparation Tasks sections help drill you on key concepts you must know thoroughly and help increase your speed in answering questions, a difficult hurdle many candidates face on the new exams. Final Preparation chapters guide you through tools and resources to help you craft your final study plan. Special troubleshooting sections help you master the complex scenarios you will face on the exam.
The companion CD-ROMs contain a powerful testing engine with over 400 questions that allow you to focus on individual topic areas or take complete, timed exams. The test engine also includes simulation and testlet questions, and all questions are available in study mode and test mode. The assessment engine also tracks your performance and provides feedback on a chapter-by-chapter basis, presenting question-by-question remediation to the text.
The bonus DVDs contain more than 60 minutes of personal video mentoring from the author focused mainly on the topic of subnetting. These videos help bring difficult subnetting concepts to life and make learning easy.
Well-regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, and challenging practice questions, this completely revised and updated edition provides you with more detailed information and more realistic practice exercises than any other CCNA study guide, enabling you to succeed on the exam the first time.
Best-selling author and senior instructor Wendell Odom shares preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you to identify areas requiring further study and to improve your conceptual and hands-on knowledge. The material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing your understanding of exam topics and preparing you for the numerous challenges the exams present.
These official study guides help you master all the topics on the CCNA exams, including:
- TCP/IP and OSI networking models
- Operating Cisco routers and LAN switches
- Ethernet switch configuration and troubleshooting
- Virtual LANs and Spanning Tree Protocol
- Wireless LANs
- IP addressing and subnetting
- Routing protocols
- Router configuration and troubleshooting
- Static and connected routes
- VLSM and route summarization
- IP access control lists
- OSPF and EIGRP configuration
- WAN configuration and troubleshooting
- Frame Relay
- Network Security and VPNs
- NAT
- IPv6
- Troubleshooting
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Average Customer Rating:   Excellent Resource I just passed my CCNA exam two days ago using these texts and the included Boson Exam Sim Engine as my primary study tools. I also purchased two 2950 switches, and 2610xm, 2621, 1720 routers. Very detailed The book is very detailed, and while I haven't gotten a chance to look at the included CD, it's a nice touch. i can't hate, these books will guarantee your ccna. wendell odom gives it to you in a no-nonsense way. he explains these topics VERY well. i always have to know "why" something happens, instead of just telling me, "yeah, it happened." and this book goes into detail on topics better than any video training out there. i've had the supposedly best cbt training video's and it doesn't go into detail as these two books do. Get them. read them. i'd also say get some kind of hands-on training as well, if you are like me. i have to know all the details about something before i can truly understand it. Not my favorite study guide... So, to give you a little background on myself. I graduated college with a 4 year degree in IS with an emphasis in Networking 2 years ago. I was a lab assistant for the CCNA/CCNP labs in my last semester and helped students with their homework for the 440 level classes. I, for some reason, never decided until recently to get my certifications. In addition, I haven't used much of my networking education for the last 2 years so I'm a little rusty as I'm sure you could expect. This is one of the books I tried, but it proved to be more of a chore to read than expected...
This book is one of the more difficult to understand books. The book is written in such a way that it seems as though all explanations are in a backwards fashion. Almost as though Odom gives the explanation to a scenario then goes back and gives you the scenario setup. I found myself reading a paragraph then going back and having to reread the first half of the same paragraph just to understand the example he will introduce after the fact. I found the writing style very confusing. I also found that he would spend quite a bit of time on some of the more simple subjects but never really offer much of an example or discuss many of the more complicated subjects. I understand that this is the beginner study guide, but it is still nice to know more detail on some of the protocols we are to learn and to understand their function.
My recommendation is to read this book if you already have some established background in networking with Cisco. Unless you've seen the Cisco IOS in action and have been able to get a visual demonstration of these protocols I fear this book will prove much more confusing than helpful to the less computer savvy people out there that are trying to Cisco certify.
In addition, Odom's ICDN 1 and 2 individual guides are equally as obnoxious to read in my opinion. I just think that Cisco could do better at finding an author for it's official study guides. But again that's just my opinion, and I'm not saying these are useless as they do have some pretty decent reference tables within and can very well prove useful at helping people pass certification. I'm simply saying there are better books out there, like the Sybex editions. Mixed, at best. There are no question and answers in the back of each chapter. And the exams are not split up by chapter: plus you have to download the exams, in addition of having to install a rather extensive test harness. |  |
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