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Trust the best selling Official Cert Guide series from Cisco Press to help you learn, prepare, and practice for exam success. They are built with the objective of providing assessment, review, and practice to help ensure you are fully prepared for your certification exam.
CCNA Voice 640-461 Official Cert Guide 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 enable you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section. Exam topic lists make referencing easy. Chapter-ending Exam Preparation Tasks help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly.
- Master Cisco CCNA Voice 640-461 exam topics
- Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes
- Review key concepts with exam preparation tasks
- Practice with realistic exam questions on the CD-ROM
CCNA Voice 640-461 Official Cert Guide focuses specifically on the objectives for the CCNA Voice ICOMM exam. Senior voice consultants and trainers Jeremy Cioara and Michael Valentine share preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills. Material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing your understanding and retention of exam topics.
The companion CD-ROM contains a powerful Pearson IT Certification Practice Test engine that enables you to focus on individual topic areas or take a complete, timed exam. The assessment engine also tracks your performance and provides feedback on a module-by-module basis, laying out a complete assessment of your knowledge to help you focus your study where it is needed most.
Well-regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, comprehensive design scenarios, and challenging review questions and exercises, this official study guide helps you master the concepts and techniques that will enable you to succeed on the exam the first time.
The official study guide helps you master all the topics on the CCNA Voice exam, including:
- Voice and data convergence
- IP phone connections to the LAN infrastructure
- Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express
- CUCM Express IP phone configuration and voice productivity features
- Gateways and trunks
- Cisco Unity Express
- Smart Business Communications System
- UC500 series for voice
CCNA Voice 640-461 Official Cert Guide is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit www.cisco.com/go/authorizedtraining.
The print edition of the CCNA Voice 640-461 Official Cert Guide contains two free, complete practice exam.
Pearson IT Certification Practice Test minimum system requirements:
Windows XP (SP3), Windows Vista (SP2), or Windows 7;
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 Client;
Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0;
Pentium class 1GHz processor (or equivalent);
512 MB RAM;
650 MB disc space plus 50 MB for each downloaded practice exam
Also available from Cisco Press for Cisco CCNA Voice study is the CCNA Voice 640-461 Official Cert Guide Premium Edition eBook and Practice Test. This digital-only certification preparation product combines an eBook with enhanced Pearson IT Certification Practice Test.
This integrated learning package:
- Allows you to focus on individual topic areas or take complete, timed exams
- Includes direct links from each question to detailed tutorials to help you understand the concepts behind the questions
- Provides unique sets of exam-realistic practice questions
- Tracks your performance and provides feedback on a module-by-module basis, laying out a complete assessment of your knowledge to help you focus your study where it is needed most
About the Author
Jeremy D. Cioara, CCIE No. 11727, works in many facets of the Cisco networking realm. As an author, he has written multiple books for Cisco Press and Exam Cram. As an instructor, he teaches at Interface Technical Training (www.interfacett.com) in Phoenix, Arizona. Likewise, Jeremy has recorded many E-Learning titles at CBTNuggets (www.cbtnuggets.com). Finally, Jeremy is the CIO of AdTEC Networks and works as a network consultant, focusing on Cisco network and VoIP implementations. Jeremy also casually blogs about Cisco topics at Tekcert (www.tekcert.com) in his “free time.” Thankfully, he is married to the Certified Best Wife in the World (CBWW), who helps him manage his time and priorities and prevents him from getting an enormous Cisco logo tattooed across his chest.
Michael Valentine has 15 years of experience in the IT field, specializing in network design and installation. Currently, he is a Cisco trainer with Skyline Advanced Technology Services and specializes in Cisco Unified Communications, CCNA, and CCNP classes. His accessible, humorous, and effective teaching style has demystified Cisco for hundreds of students since he began teaching in 2002. Mike holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of British Columbia and currently holds CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, CCVP, and CCSI No. 31461 certifications. Mike has developed courseware and labs for Cisco and its training partners. Mike is the coauthor of CCNA Exam Cram (Exam 640-802), Third Edition (Que 2008), authored the CCNA Voice Quick Reference Guide, and has served as technical editor and contributor on several Cisco Press titles.
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Pros:
1- Jeremy's way of explaining is very simple and clear, I have 7 years telecom experience with fixed and mobile networks and decided to move into the SIP world, and was curious how Jeremy will explain the legacy network section, I don't think it can be done simpler than the way he explains it.
2- The book structure is very good, you can build up the full picture through the chapters even if you have no knowledge with the world of Cisco voice (which I didn't have).
3- The amount of information about each part is adequate, written in a short way, and the writer doesn't get you lost into deep details, which is the way I prefer, maybe other readers prefer the long detailed way!?
cons:
1- Pictures are small, I'm reading on a 24inch monitor and can't read many snapshots' contents easily, full page should be used instead for several pictures to make it easy to read.
2- No page numbers, this is common in many kindle books, a percentage is used instead.
3- The CD provided with the printed version of the book is not available with the kindle edition, I believe its very easy for the publisher to arrange with Amazon to provide a download link along with a username/password for each client purchases the ebook version.
Well, fortunately, when it reached "cruising height" things went much more better, and it turned up useful for me to approve the certification exam!
But I think that technical reviewers would have to dedicate much more care to their job to mantain Jeremy reputation.
Cheers!
Julio
I decided to post my review just after I present the exam, fortunately for me, I was able to successfully pass the exam. What I can say about it, is that this is not an easy exam, VoIP is a whole new world even if you have networking experience, so you need to be really prepared for this exam.
About the book, this was my first source of preparation since it is the guide for the exam. I think is a challenge to write a text book for this exam, since the applications used in Cisco Unified are really huge, they have a lot of options, a lot of sections and the troubleshooting could be really complicated, I think this book was not totally successful on this task, and this is why in my opinion:
- lack of explanation: for people, like me, that are new on VoIP, telephony concepts like: DID, ANI, FXO, E&M and others, I think they deserve some explanation before they are referred in the book. The authors could've done a better work with these and add a few more pages for basic telephony topics.
- Confusing explanations: I think the first chapters about Cisco Unified, CUCME and basic topics are very well written and the authors did a great job there, but when they start talking about CUCM, CUC and CUPS it was very confusing for me to understand what they were talking about or what was the goal of a specific section in any of this applications. I think this section really need configuration examples, more diagrams and a more clear segmentation.
- Errors: the book includes multiple errors, so what out for them.
The book as a guide includes all what you need to pass the exam. I don't think this could be a reference, since it is a very basic book. If you need more or a better explanation about some topics included, this books are good references and I highly recommend to be checked (of course within the limits of the CCNA exam):
- Implementing Cisco Unified Communications Voice over IP and QoS (Cvoice) Foundation Learning Guide: (CCNP Voice CVoice 642-437) (4th Edition)
- Configuring Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Unity Connection: A Step-by-Step Guide (2nd Edition)
- Cisco Unity Connection
- Cisco Unified Presence Fundamentals
- Cisco Documentation
The practice included with this book is extremely useful, I didn't check the exams included with the premium edition, however is up to you if think you need them.
- Fernando
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