You've got to be kidding me.:
I'm weighing in here because I have to question the integrity of many of these "customer reviews". Take a good hard look at all the 5 star reviews and you will see a common thread - namely, they are not people looking to pass the CCNA. If you are like me, you have some working knowledge of networking and routing but much of the material will be new to you. You are not the Author's "Technical Reviewer" You are not a CCNA instructor. You are not someone who has read all the other author's books and came here to proclaim that he has "done it again." You are not a veteran of the industry who has nothing better to do than read 1200 pages of entry level material. Here is how I describe this set. Get ready for hundreds of pages of this: "Classful Routing: When a packet's destination only matches a router's default route, and does not match any other routes, only use the default route if this router does not know any routes in the classful network in which the destination IP address resides." I hope my weighing in here helps because I think these other reviewers were here to help the author sell the book, not help you pass the CCNA.
Outstanding 640-802 learning resource!!!:
These books are the best learning resources I've come across. After failing the 640-802 exam multiple times, I searched for a proper Cisco educational experience and found that these books delivered exactly what I was seeking. Prior to reading these books, I read Lammle's (Sybex) study guide and found it to be lacking the proper material coverage as well as being riddled with technical and grammatical errors. Odom's books offer much more detail and more importantly - Cisco's philosophy, which is a key and often overlooked component. I've since passed the exam and continue to use Odom's books; they're fantastic.
Excellent Book to Study From:
Excellent Book to Study From. I must say, I read (honestly) books from other venders (read: Sybex) and none of the books prepared me better for the exam than good ol' Wendel. Wendel writes from the heart and he is honest when it comes to material covered in the exam, at times he goes at length in the book and you may wonder why he does, but in the long run (read: the exam) it all makes sense. I regret not reading this book before I wasted my time readiing Sybex's Todd Lammle's book. Trust me. I passed the exam on the first try!
This is a geat book.:
This a great book. I was looking for this book. And this book save me time. I recomend this bok.
Meh.. okay I guess:
These books helped me pass the exam but I am glad I had prior knowledge. If not, the typos in this book and exam questions could have been very misleading. There were many times I knew that either were wrong. It was very frustrating with the exam questions. First, they don't give that many of them and second, half have typos. If the CCNA wasn't such an easy exam, these books would not have sufficed. I am not looking forward to the Cisco press' CCNP books but there aren't that many choices out there.
| Author: | Wendell Odom | | Binding: | Hardcover | | Dewey Decimal Number: | 004.6 | | EAN: | 9781587201950 | | Edition: | 3 | | ISBN: | 1587201836 | | Number Of Pages: | 1475 | | Publication Date: | 2007-09-14 |
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