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| CCIE: Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert Study Guide | 
| Authors: John Swartz, Todd Lammle
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1578339
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1056
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.2
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.9 x 2.6
ISBN: 078212657X
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.6
UPC: 025211226575
EAN: 9780782126570
ASIN: 078212657X
Publication Date: January 2001
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Product Description
Cisco dominates the internetworking scene with an over 80% share of the routers used on the Internet. The Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE) certification is one of the most highly valued IT certifications, pursued by many but possessed by few. Candidates must pass both a written and laboratory exam to attain CCIE status. The CCIE Routing and Switching exam covers IP and IP routing, non-IP desktop protocols such as IPX, and bridge and switch related technologies. Cisco recently "refreshed" both the written and laboratory exam requirements for CCIE to cover the Cisco IOS version 12.1, and in the process made them more challenging than ever, thus ensuring continued demand in the marketplace for up-to-date and accurate CCIE study materials. CCIE candidates preparing for the revised CCIE qualification exam (#350-001) and the CCIE hand-on lab exam.
Amazon.com Review
In a world where most CCIE books are as dense and understandable as a phone book in a language you just started learning last week, the CCIE Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert Study Guide is a breath of fresh air--readable, clear, and admirably concise. Unfortunately, that readability comes at a price, and that price is a lack of depth. You can't fault the authors, though--the CCIE is a daunting exam, covering a wide range of topics in a sometimes-terrifying depth. And given that books tend to fall apart under their own weight if they get over twelve hundred pages, any book publisher has to choose between packing friendliness or information into those compressed slices o' wood pulp. For the CCIE Study Guide, they chose readability, making it perhaps the only beginners' guide to the most advanced certification available. But since you're going to be buying more than one book for this exam anyway, why not get one you'll enjoy reading? And the CIEE Study Guide functions as a stellar overview, explaining the CCIE topics with deft aplomb and some of the best writing you're likely to see in this advanced arena, where technical wizardry is often valued more highly than clarity. The amazing thing about the CCIE Study Guide is the cleanness of the writing: it gets the essentials of large unwieldy concepts across in a few sentences. Which is not to say that you won't have to reread it a couple of times to understand some of the rough spots, but the amount of rereading is drastically minimized from what it could be. Carefully thought-out diagrams spotlight various routing issues, and definitely help with visualization. But even considering the clear writing, the detail is fairly sparse. The responses you'll get to various command lines are sometimes truncated for space, which may cause problems for those who aren't used to sorting through pages of output to find the critical data. The sections on Ethernet frames contain information, but they're not comprehensive. In short, there's a heck of a lot here, but the CCIE will require a bit more in almost every case. There are 20 questions at the end of every chapter, and they're all right--but they're definitely a step down from what you can expect to see on the actual CCIE, and they're all simple multiple-choice questions. No scenario-style questions to be found here, buddy. The answers, sadly, are terse and don't always explain why the other options are wrong. In short, backed with some Web research and a couple of other books, this could be the foundation for a real passing grade--but it's not quite enough. However, if you've lost your way during all of the individual exams and need an overview--or want a refresher course that is technically accurate as far as it goes and is comparatively fun to read--then you won't regret it. This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. --William Steinmetz
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 Do not use for today's CCIE R&S test - or yesterday's! February 1, 2006
I usually feel that a Todd Lammle book is a book to take seriously. While studying for the CCIE Routing & Switching (R&S), I purchased this book anticipating a book worthy of the Lammle title. While I was not too disappointed, I did not feel the book offered any information that I could not find elsewhere. Also, while the book gave a good intro for most subjects (ISDN, Frame-Relay, NAT), I do not feel one would be able to walk away from the CCIE as feeling like you passed solely on this book. I would not place this book within the top 15 books to use for the CCIE. For example - on page 327, how can one show a table of possible protocols found in the protocol field of an IP Header WITHOUT including TCP (protocol 6) and UDP (protocol 17). On the flip side, I did feel that the books discussion was a good intro to BGP - a topic which usually takes books to explain.
I give this book 3 pings out of 5:
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 Check the Blueprint for R&S Written April 15, 2003
Check the Cisco blueprint for R&S exam, be sure that the books you use cover all listed topics...some cover routing protocols and switching adequately but don't cover QoS and Multiservice, for example. Cisco's website is also a great study resource for the new R&S written exam.
 Does not fit for the new exam!!!! August 30, 2002
i read this book and just faild the new ccie written exam, no matter this is a good book, also there are a lot of mistakes in it, it is worth reading it! But don't feel prepared to take the new ccie written test.
Errors August 18, 2002
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Good Book if you can get past all the errors. I even found notes left, to author himself. I have never seen so many errors. I began to doubt most of the text.
Why can't someone just audit the book before publishing and catch all these errors?Terrible.
Good but need to supplement June 23, 2002
I agree with the other reviewers here that the book is well written, gives good coverage of most topics, but overall is a little light technically on some things.The chapter on BGP was quite technical, though, and I appreciated that. I'm used to reading full-length RFC's (i.e., I've read the ones on the original TCP/IP protocol and such additional topics as DHCP, and so forth, and I can tell you from personal experience, they can be quite quite dense). I should mention that I'm a long-time server administrator side person and am currently retired at the ripe old age of 50. When I was working, I really don't need to know that much about Cisco products, since I worked for a big Fortune 100 company and we had whole departments of people handling that side of things, just as I was responsible for the server side of things. But as I now have plenty of time on my hands, I'm currently working through all the books for the CCNA, CCNP, and CCIE that I can find in order to just get somemore background in these important areas, mainly for my own curiousity. Who knows, maybe I'll even take some of the exams. (If the stock market keeps going down, I may have to go back to work anyway!) The Cisco books and the Sybex books have been my main resource for all of this. I agree that you need to have other sources for adequate coverage, and I found that sometimes one author's explanation of something didn't click right away, but then the next author's would. I'm also currently working through the Sybex Switches book, and have found the Cisco Interactive Mentor CD on Switches to be useful also. The CD has interactive labs where you get practice working with the commands and troubleshooting and there is a glossary of technical terms where you can quickly look up something you've forgotten. I don't know if there's one for the CCIE Internetwork exam, but if there is, it might be worth checking out as another study aid.
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