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Cisco networking authority Todd Lammle has completely updated this new edition to cover all of the exam objectives for the latest version of the CCNA exam. Todd’s straightforward style provides lively examples, easy-to-understand analogies, and real-world scenarios that will not only help you prepare for the exam, but also give you a solid foundation as a Cisco networking professional.

Packed with updated topics that have been added to the 2007 version of the CCNA exam, this updated study guide features expanded coverage of key topic areas plus new material on switching, network address translation, and OSPF. Inside, find the complete instruction you need, including:

• Full coverage of all exam objectives in a systematic approach, so you can be confident you’re getting the instruction you need for the exam
• Practical hands-on exercises and labs to reinforce critical skills,
• Real-world scenarios that put what you’ve learned in the context of actual job roles
• Challenging review questions in each chapter to prepare you for exam day
• Exam Essentials, a key feature in each chapter that identifies critical areas you must become proficient in before taking the exam

• CD-ROM Includes:
• Chapter Review Questions
• Four Full-Length Practice Exams
• 200 Electronic Flashcards
• Audio and Video Instruction from Todd Lammle
• Full book in searchable PDF format

Average Customer Rating:

good book

Customer Rating:

Pros: 1. in the end of every chapter is plenty of self testing questions which really tests your understanding of the material; 2. easy to understand and follow. Cons: 1. I've read only a part of the book (about distance vector routing protocols) and i spotted quite a few errors. i must say that after reading these rewievs i was expecting a better book. Maybe i am spoiled, but i give this book only 4 pings out of 5: !!!.!

The only book you'll need!	Customer Rating:
What can I say that hasn't already been said? Todd Lammle is the man! I passed my CCNA, and it's all thanks to this book. This book was the ony book I used for studying, and I was not disappointed. Mr. Lammle has a way of writing that matches no other! Unlike other books that are boring and droll; Todd has a way of writing that actually make learning easy and fun! Keep up the good work!

Good textbook	Customer Rating:
This book is written clearly by a down to earth author. As a college student I've read some horribly written and compiled textbooks. This textbook is full of illustrations and diagrams to help you learn.

Excellent Book!	Customer Rating:
If you want to learn networking, this is the book to have, no doubt about it.

Great book, rotten certification

Customer Rating:

This is a fine book by a credible and devoted author and is certainly more interesting to read and more engagingly written than anything Cisco has ever produced about the CCNA. I have read it cover to cover and profited immensely from the experience though most of the later chapters will probably not be of much use to me for reasons I will explain next. My learning was in a substantial-sized Cisco Academy class complete with videos, labs and the rest but the Cisco "facts of life" did not come home to roost until the end of the year when one by one the best and brightest in the class began to take the CCNA and would each flunk one by one. Then the instructor became more frank with us and let us know that typically more than half of the people taking the exam will flunk. Cisco has designed the test to be so difficult that it has turned into a cash cow rather than a career path for graduates. This he said was because the passing score was set at 850 and because the questions are often phrased in an unconventional, misleading and obtuse manner. It also is not possible to pace yourself on questions by saving the most difficult items for the end, the questions must be answered in the order presented. This book prepares you as well as it can by exposing you to the over 100 acronyms you are likely to encounter in the exam and gives sample questions at the end of the chapters to help with comprehension, but these questions pale by comparison to the questions asked on the actual exam. There are also simulations on the exam which are ad lib terminal sessions where you are presented with a scenario and expected to sit down at the keyboard and type in an exactly spelled and syntactically perfect set of commands to respond to the scenario in the order they would normally be used on a live Cisco router. There may be one or as many as three such simulations on any given exam involving over one hundred different commands taught in the book and they are weighted heavily in the scoring. Knowing all this I started studying for the exam with a set of meticulous notes taken from the book and lectures. I found that the amount of material that needed to be held in my brain at one time for confident mastery of the material was just too much. I knew that taking the exam would be a complete waste of money and simply a way to feel bad about myself while emptying my wallet at the same time. I had studied diligently for at least two months at the end of the course when I decided to change direction to the MCSA which was also part of my years curriculum. I took one of the much cheaper Microsoft exams as an experiment and it was like falling off a log. The same lessons taught at the beginning of this CCNA book were very valuable for the other exams because they were overkill. In the two plus months of study that I consumed on the CCNA I could have whizzed through all four of the bite-sized Microsoft exams. I will keep this book on the shelf as a great networking reference work, but as far as the CCNA is concerned, bye bye Cisco.