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CCNA: Study Guide: Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA Study Guides) (Hardcover)

by T Lammle (Author) "Cisco makes a smorgasbord of router, hub, and switch products, so it follows that by understanding all that's available from Cisco, you can make a..." (more)

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Hardcover: 832 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 2nd Revised edition edition (14 Jun 2000)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0782126472
ISBN-13: 978-0782126471
Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 19.8 x 5.8 cm

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A hub forwards all packets to all ports while a switch learns to associate MAC addresses with ports to make more efficient one-to-one connections. This is one of the less arcane facts you'll learn from this study guide. Here's a more arcane one: The available cable ends for Cisco routers are EITA/TIA-232, EIA/TIA-449, V.35(for CSU/DSU), X.21(for X.25) and EIA-530. Pay close attention because you will be tested. An example multi-choice question asks, "What Cisco layer provides segmentation of contention networks?". Your choices are Access, Physical, Network, Distribution, Core, Transport, Data link.

This study guide highlights the differences between internetworking as a theoretical study and its implementation in the real world. This is the activity for which Cisco sells routers, hubs and switches. Reading this guide to is to glimpse the elephant on whose back rests the virtual world. It's fascinating and hermetic. It contains the spells the Net wizards use to abolish distance.

Like all magic, it is both precise and arbitrary. While 10Base2 can support a bus up to 185m long with 30 hosts 10Base5 can run to 500m and 208 users. But not 501m or 209 hosts because then the magic won't work. This is an excellent study guide for those who find hardcore technology capable of handling millions of events in tiny slivers of a second with utter reliability for months on end utterly fascinating.

Read the section on how the spanning tree protocol prevents network loops forming. By the way, did you know IEEE 802.1d STP supported by Cisco is incompatible with inventor DEC's version? You will. --Steve Patient

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A guide for those taking the Cisco Certified Network Associate and Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert certifications. The text includes maps to official Cisco exam objectives and the CD includes an advanced testing engine, electronic flashcards for PC and Palm Pilots and an IP calculator program.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent value for money., 19 Mar 2002

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One of the great things about this book is that the author reallises that most people who want to take this route into networking don't have half a dozen routers and switches lying around to play with, or a manager with a vast training budget! I had very little hands on Cisco experience and still managed to pass the exam first time with a 935! :-) My only criticism is that the chapter on WAN protocols is a bit weak. Very good value for money.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Very good book for preparing for the ccna exam!, 21 Sep 2001

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I picked up this book at the start of the course and put it straight back down. Phew! whats x75, ipx, igrp! arghh. Further into the course i picked up the book more and towards the end i found it to be my bible. Lammel explains the trickiest concepts very well with a sense of humour too sometimes. I would reccomend this book to anyone studying for the ccna exam, i passed with 94% and i feel that i owe alot to this book.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Sybex CCNA Study Guide Review, 8 April 2003

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This review is from: CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide (CCNA Study Guides) (Hardcover)

An good study in that it covers all of the required CCNA exam knowledge in plain English with a good dose of humour.

I have two criticisms.

1. The book covers only what is required and nothing more. That's fine if you have hands on experience with Cisco hardware / networking etc but you would do better with a more comprehensive study guide if you are new to all this.

2. The new CCNA 640-607 exam includes simulation questions - ie "here's a network, this is what's wrong with it, fix it by configuring the routers". The book and CD simply don't cover these new questions. Again, fine if you have hands on experience but a major downside if you don't. The simulation questions are tough and you don't get much time - practice on routers or a good router simulator is a must.

If the author Tomm Lammle were reading this he'd probably say "so buy the Sybex Router Simulator as well" - and he's right. It's superb and will give you the hands on experience you need if you don't have a 3 Cisco 2500 routers lying around (but you can multiply the cost of the study guide by 4 if you want the router simulator too!)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good, but a few mistakes
I have just used this book + the Cisco official guide to pass my CCNA. The book is concise, easy to read, good screen shots (if you don't happen to have a Router and Switch at... Read more

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5.0 out of 5 stars If I don't pass, its not going to be Mr Lammle's fault.
Really very good. If your aim is to pass the CCNA exam (2), then this is the one book to buy.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Lots and lots of errors in this book!
I was using the CCNA 1 Study Guide by Todd Lammle and thought it was excellent. It's only late on I discovered that I needed the new book (version 2) to cover everything in the... Read more

Published on 29 Jan 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars From a beginner to a CCNA if 5 weeks -excellent book!
I read a couple of reviews for different books before I decided which one to pick. This one seemed to be pretty good, considering my experince with routers was zero. Read more

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4.0 out of 5 stars I would recommend this book to pass the CCNA
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4.0 out of 5 stars Technically superb but let down by poor editing
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