By: Wendell Odom Publisher: Cisco Press Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Label: Cisco Press Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 1475 Publication Date: September 14, 2007
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.
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:
Enjoyable, well layed out I plan to take a CCNA course next semester at the local community college and bought this book due to its good reviews. I have had exposure to these technologies throughout some courses that I have been currently taking so the subject matter was not new, but I did learn additional things. The book explains concepts in a way that is easy to understand. Highly recommended!
Very well written technical guide I read both of these books from front to back, while doing doing hands on practicing with Cisco gear. One thing I liked about these books is that I feel it gives you more than what you need to pass the exam, rather than the bare minimum. I did learn a good amount from reading these books, and I passed my CCNA the first time I took it earlier this week.
In order to pass the exam, I would recommend that you get hands on experience with Cisco routers and switches if possible. For those that don't have multiple routers at their disposal, GNS3 is a useful, free tool that allows you to test virtualized routers.
I've heard that the DVD that comes with the book has a good testing engine, although I didn't try it. I've been using the Transcenders practice exams for sometime, and I find them good because they seem harder than the actual exams.
I would definitely recommend these books. Good luck to you in your studies.
CiscoPress... Just amazing... Both books, and the Video-Class... But it's not news, if we talking about CiscoPress, and Wendell Odom work.
Certainly will help me to get my CCNA.
ccna review The book is excellent although I had to return the set due to the fact that the first book's cd was blank.
Technically accurate Most advantages of those 2 books (cheap, comprehensive, additional materials) have been mentioned by other reviewers and I agree. I am not sure if it covers the exam topics, since I haven't taken the test (and even if I had, we are not supposed to talk about what is on the exam :-). What I really like about this author is the technical accuracy of every single sentence. I haven't read absolutely every page, but read enough of it and could not find any mistake (and I am a really bad person when I read a book :-). Besides accuracy and in depth analysis of the topics, this book at some points can substitute not only classroom training, but also some experience operating real networks (e.g. the part that talks about physical circuit clock rate and synchronization in fundamentals of WANs). If you trust this author, you will learn a lot of useful things, more that just "what is the command to do this and that?". Yes, that's it. This book is generally useful, even for those that already know most of the stuff. Good job! Oh, almost forgot to mention how much I enjoyed the Flintstones Network story (if you read it after you have understood the rest of the material, you will appreciate more how much funny it is :-)
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