CCENT/CCNA ICND1 Official Exam Certification Guide, 2nd Edition

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CCENT/CCNA ICND1 Official Exam Certification Guide

Second Edition

Wendell Odom, CCIE® No. 1624

CCENT/CCNA ICND1 Official Exam Certification Guide, Second Edition, is a best of breed Cisco® exam study guide that focuses specifically on the objectives for the CCENT™ and CCNA® ICND1 exam. This fully updated edition presents complete reviews and a more challenging and realistic exam preparation experience.

Senior instructor and best-selling author Wendell Odom shares preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills. The material is presented in a concise manner, focused on increasing your understanding of exam topics and preparing you for the numerous challenges the exams present.

CCENT/CCNA ICND1 Official Exam Certification Guide, Second Edition, 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 allow you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section. Chapter-ending Exam Preparation Tasks sections help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly and help increase your speed in answering questions, a difficult hurdle many exam candidates face on the new exams. A Final Preparation chapter guides you through tools and resources to help you craft your final study plan. Special troubleshooting sections help you master the complex scenarios you will face on the exam.

The companion CD-ROM contains a powerful testing engine that allows you to focus on individual topic areas or take complete, timed exams. The assessment engine also tracks your performance and provides feedback on a chapter-by-chapter basis, presenting question-by-question remediation to the text. The bonus DVD contains more than

60 minutes of personal video mentoring from the author focused mainly on bringing difficult subnetting concepts to life.

Well-regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, and challenging practice questions, this book provides you with more detailed information and more realistic practice exercises than any other CCNA study guide, enabling you to succeed on the exam the first time.

CCENT/CCNA ICND1 Official Exam Certification Guide, Second Edition, 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.

Wendell Odom, CCIE® No. 1624, has been in the networking industry since 1981. He currently teaches QoS, MPLS, and CCNA courses for Skyline Advanced Technology Services (www.skyline-ats.com). Wendell has worked as a network engineer, consultant, systems engineer, and instructor and course developer, and has taught authorized Cisco courses for the majority of the last 14 years.

The official study guide helps you master all the topics on the CCENT and CCNA ICND1 exam, including

Companion CD-ROM

The CD-ROM contains an electronic copy of the book and 200 practice questions for the ICND1 and full CCNA exams, including simulation and testlet questions, all available in study mode and test mode.

BONUS DVD

The DVD contains more than 60 minutes of personal instruction from the author.

This volume is part of the Exam Certification Guide Series from Cisco Press®. Books in this series provide officially developed exam preparation materials that offer assessment, review, and practice to help Cisco Career Certification candidates identify weaknesses, concentrate their study efforts, and enhance their confidence as exam day nears.

Category: Cisco Press–Cisco Certification

Covers: CCENT and CCNA ICND1 Exam 640-822

What Customers Say About CCENT/CCNA ICND1 Official Exam Certification Guide, 2nd Edition:

Haven't taken it yet.I don't feel the chapter discussion prepares one enough for the chapter test questions. As well, the Ch. Note -- take my review with a grain of salt. You just have to "luck out" on the real test, in my opinion.And then there's the errata. 582 erroneously says F is a valid answer on Ch. A lot of subtleties end up being asked in the test questions and you have to be on your toes or make leaps of thought that I thought Wendell could better describe. For instance, there's a chapter test question in the book that doesn't match the CD's version that my wife was reading.

It's "neighbors", not "neighbor", and the chapter text only refers to "neighbors" (plural). I take the real test in late January, 2009. 10 test refers to "show cdp neighbor", but that's a bad command. The other problem I had was that the material is just so vast that there's no way you can memorize everything possible. I downloaded the latest errata and found that it didn't match up with bugs that I found. Yet p. 10, question 1.I also want to recommend you google on "Cisco_7200_Simulator" and download the one from ipflow.

It is a great book but it contains several unnecessary information. To pass CCENT successfully, it is better to be read with books such as CCNA ICND1 640-822 CCENT Study Guide and Examination Guide Q&A, by thaar al_taiey.

Ensure you go to the Cisco Press website and download the Errata. The extra exam materials I used helped to highlight this allowing me to use internet resources to cover some of those holes.

I am already MCSE certified and have 10 years of IT experience with Desktops and Servers (no Cisco equipment) which I am sure helped, however I feel this book was worded well enough to ensure people of all abilities would be capable of passing the exam. Thoroughly recommend this book as part of self study towards the ICND CCENT exam.

This was also invaluable.The book included a Boson exam prep test which was also very helpful.I would have given the book 5 stars but as mentioned the exam did ask questions about some areas that the book did not cover. Other materials I used as additional reading included the Exam Cram CCNA Practice Questions (Exam 640-802) (3rd Edition) book and the Cisco Press CCNA Portable Command Guide (2nd Edition) although I am confident I would have passed if I didn't have them.

There were a few questions in the exam that the book did not cover including types of NAT (static, dynamic, overload) and configuration of Frame Relay, for which the book only touches the concepts.The book includes good examples of command use and Switch/Router responses but for the best experience I suggest the use of some kind of simulator or better still go and buy some switches and routers on eBay to create your own lab to play with (what I did). Finally the other reason for a lost star is the number of small mistakes in the text.

This is very important.

I have read this book and I say that this book covers mostly all the things that you need to know about the exam but you have to have more resources or have a enough experience(which I have) to pass the exam. Not recommended if your a beginner in networking.

I do recommend getting a lab simulator or some used cisco equipment to practice with. This book was a great resource for understanding the basics of Cisco equipment. I had not setup a switch or router from a default configuration prior to reading this book, it was very helpful in walking through the basic procedures to do that. I would also recommend running through each procedure multiple times to ensure you have it memorized for the exam.I felt the actual networking concepts discussed in this book were covered enough to pass the test but left me asking questions. If you are just looking to get your ICND1 cert then this book will be very helpful, if you are looking for in-depth networking concepts look elsewhere.