Cisco CCNA Exam #640-507 Certification Guide (With CD-ROM) - Ebook Detail

A comprehensive tool for preparing for the CCNA #640-507 exam. Coverage of exam topics ensures you a complete understanding of the exam. The guide follows a logical organization of the exam objectives. Material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing retention and recall of exam topics. Organize your exam preparation through the use of consistent features in these chapters. Pre-Chapter quizzes help determine depth of study for each chapter; Foundation topics section cover the technology behind the exam objectives that candidate must know; Foundation Review sections provide concise tables and lists for those who need only review the objectives in a given chapter; Chapter-Ending Quizzes test retention of the chapter topics; and Scenario-based excercises to help you think about exam objectives in real-world situations, thus increasing your recall during exam time.
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This is a good book, accurate and up to date, but won't fully prepare you for the CCNA exam. Cisco's ICND book is still considered the official text for the exam.
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To start the things let me say that I pass CCNA exam and this book was one of the responsibles for that. I'm not american and I can say that if you know english enough to read and understand and you want to pass you can buy this book. The Quizes of "Do I know it already" at the beggening of each chapter gives you a good base to know where you are and summaries at the end of the chapters are good enough as a remember of the chapters contents to use the days before the exam. After all ,you've to agree that the best way of try to find out how CISCO sees things(and that a very important point to the exam) is to read CISCO press books. All exam is there you've only to study it hard. Also is very good to try the labs exercises if you can.so that its , good luck!.
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Just had this book for one day, but I must say I am very impressed with it. I used to have problems with the terms "synchronous", "asynchronous", "port" and "socket". The book explains them so beautifully.

I am preparing for the CCNA test and I believe this book is the key.

I recommend the book to anyone preparing for the test.
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I looked at both this book and the Sybex/Todd Lammle book, and decided to order this one. I feel it was a good decision, due to the more rigorous coverage this book provides of the subject matter. I don't think this book's style is "overkill". If you have some networking experience, you can go through this book in two evenings with a highlighter to get a good review before taking a certification exam. And once you've completed the test, this book, unlike the Sybex book, will have some value as a quick reference in your tech library. If you don't have any network experience, I really think this book gives a good tutorial in networking fundamentals although it would take considerable time and effort to soak up all the information in here for the first time. Regardless of your experience level, this book gives you the "Cisco spin" on various topics that you'll need to answer the test questions, even if you're intimately familiar with the works of Richard Stevens, Radia Perlman, etc.
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I just took and passed the CCNA exam. I used this book as well
as Todd Lammle's CCNA Study Guide. Probably overkill but I learned some good stuff. The interesting thing about these books is how they complement each other. Odom's book is great for commands, especially towards the end of the book in the routing, ipx and WAN sections. He has these cool charts that list out all the commands and make it really easy to review ones that you might not use at work (like all that frame relay and isdn stuff). I've seen other reviews mention typos - maybe I'm just not very observant but I didn't notice too many and the ones I did notice were no big deal. I also liked the CD - a full practice test that changes each time you take it. Some of the questions repeat - but it's still a useful tool. Don't be too concerned if you fail the practice test. I took like 5 practice tests before the exam (using Odom's, Lammle's and some I found online) - failed them all but passed the real thing.

This book could definately use a glossary. Lammle's book has one
and it really helps with all those silly acronyms Cisco wants you to know. I preferred the questions in Lammle's book as well. There are no multiple choice questions in the book - all are on the CD.

This book, as well as Lammle's, is very dry. How about some real life examples? There are scenarios in some chapters but they lack realism. Odom must has been a CCIE for quite some time now. He must have all kinds of cool stories - would have been great if some of them had made it into this book.

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