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Cisco Voice Over Frame Relay, ATM and IP
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Author: Stephen McQuerry, Kelly McGrew, Stephen Foy
List Price: $60.00
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ISBN: 1578702275
Publisher: Pearson Higher Education (09 April, 2001)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 99,354
Average Customer Rating: 3.14 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 2 out of 5
Study with this book - Fail the CVoice exam
If you are looking for a good preparation for taking the CVoice exam, then keep looking. This book has a lot of good info in general, but as a test prep it misses the mark. Just ask me since I studied the crap out of this text and failed miserably on the exam. I guess I'm used to books that help me prepare to actually *pass* exams! For example, MGCP gets about 1 paragraph in this book.. but the exam requires in-depth knowledge of that protocol ...which I now see was indicated on Cisco's test blueprint all this time. Sigh.
If you need VoWhatever info, just get articles off the Cisco website, and save your money.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Atrocious
I am almost done reading this book. The first 2 or 3 chapters are reasonably good, but then book becomes incomprehensible. There are three problems with this book. Firstly, it does not appear to have a coherent structure. Secondly, explanations are atrocious - the authors just did the assigned task of writing without any sincere intent to enlighten the reader. And thirdly, there are errors. If you can, steer away from this book. You can pick up the same information from "Integrating Voice and Data Networks" by Scott Keagy. That book is immeasurably better, that author really tries to drive the content home to the reader.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Expected More..
First, the good news. It's well written and you do get what you pay for. But, I've been spoiled by CiscoPress books that really blow me away with information and this one did not. The IP Voice section could have contained so much more. Specifically, I wanted much more info on what each dial-peer sub-command does, not just a 2 line explanation, but really dig into the details of what can be done between 2 peers. I felt like I was reading a CCO overview of commands, so I was a bit dissapointed and ended up getting most of my detailed info from CCO for topics related to IP Voice.
But, to be fair, the book covers what it states it is going to cover. CiscoPress has done such a good job of raising the bar on technical books, I hold them all up to that standard now, but this one falls a bit short.
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