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CCNP Switching Exam Certification Guide
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Author: David Hucaby, Tim Boyles
List Price: $49.95
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ISBN: 1587200007
Publisher: Cisco Press (20 December, 2000)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 88,171
Average Customer Rating: 4.36 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
I'd really recommend buying this book
This an excellent book. I really like it. It helped me a lot to achieve my ccnp certification and at my job.
Although it lacks some important details, for example, in STA and MLS, that makes me search a lot to find out some answers I had, it covers all the fundamentals necessary to configure switches properly and to do a great test.
I like also the cd that comes with the book. First because I could print the exercises and write anything on the printed sheet, whithout writing on the book. Second, the test session is excellent and we have a lot of material.
Rating: 4 out of 5
A good book that needs a little help.
Based solely on the reviews posted here, I made the decision to use this book as the foundation for the exam. However, I felt it necessary to supplement it with CCIE LAN Switching by Hamilton and Clark, primarily because some of the concepts mentioned in the certification guide needed further explanation or illustration. I would also urge you to get the errata from Cisco Press website. A few words about the testing software that comes on the companion CD; it is a bit buggy. For example, the software will ask you to select multiple correct answers for a question, but will provide you only with radio buttons (which as you might know allows you to make only one selection--mutual exclusivity). Given all its shortcomings, I still think it deserves a four star rating.Another book that I referred to was the CCNP Switching by Lammle (latest edition). Chapters dealing with Multicast (concepts) and Multicast configuration are explained quite nicely in Lammle's book. When it comes to Multicast and its configuration I suggest you read Lammle's book first, then read the corresponding chapters in the certification guide. Finally, I used the Boson BCMSN test number 2 (the in-house test). Boson offers three tests for [$$$] each, so if you've got the money get them all. You'll get about 750 questions with all the three tests. BTW: I took the test yesterday (Dec-19) and passed with a score of 926.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Worth to buy
This book is intensive (compared to sybex, I read that too) but easy to read. I did not give 5 stars because of two reasons: 1)It includes ATM LANE and Token ring chapters which are not one of the exam topics mentioned in cisco's site (that means they are not included in the exam!) 2)I encountered many questions that I had no idea, never mentioned in the book (I knew every inch of that book, thats for sure) The latter made me uncomfortable during the exam. I thought I was going to fail. Well, not so high but I scored 901 (passing was 776). Thanks to this book. By the way, you should definitely use Clark/Hamilton book for switching. I had this one so I read it but this is just an alternative for Clark/Hamilton book. That one is the "Bible". Good luck on the exam, Can Zulaloglu
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