LAN Switching and Wireless, CCNA Exploration Companion Guide

Author - Wayne Lewis ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Hardcover Book item from Cisco Press was reviewed on 16-Oct-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book LAN Switching and Wireless, CCNA Exploration Companion Guide by Cisco Press. Everything about this purchase was great.
Book was exactly as described.
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2) Hardcover Book LAN Switching and Wireless, CCNA Exploration Companion Guide by Cisco Press. This book is terrible... I simply have to say it.

Oh, it looks good... the layout looks professional and the writing is grammatically correct, but the writer simply confuses the hell out of you. He leaves out critical conceptual connections which you will need for the final CCNA test.

His chapters on VTP and STP, in particular, are just abysmal. He cryptically implies things that you can only figure out through exhaustive inference and, in too, too many cases, he contradicts himself with a horrendously poor choice of logical specifiers in his sentences.

For the chapters on VTP and STP, you´d be better off to consult the Cisco Net Academy lessons or, possibly, an independently-published book on CCNA switching and wireless.

Awful book. Some parts are okay, but they´re the easy parts. When you really need a good CCNA 3 book the most -- to explain the most difficult topics such as VTP and STP -- it completely poisons your head.

Just awful.¤

3) Hardcover Book LAN Switching and Wireless, CCNA Exploration Companion Guide by Cisco Press.
This book mainly focuses on the Switching and Wireless concepts of the CCNA Exam. As a CCNA you will be expected to know how VLANs work, the different types of VLANs, configuring VLANs, inter-vlan routing, VTP, STP, and wireless concepts. This book does a nice job explaining all of these concepts and making them easy to understand! The diagrams/pictures in each chapter were really explained well and helped me understand the concepts. The summary at the end of each chapter helped me review all that I had read in the chapter. The quizzes at the end of each chapter also helped me go back and review the concepts that I didn´t understand. There were also challenging questions and activities at the end of each chapter that really tested my understanding of the concepts that I learned. The key terms were listed on the front of each chapter, and I found it convenient because I could flip back to the glossary and look up whatever definition I was unfamiliar with. After studying the chapters through this book, I now have the knowledge of all the CCNA level switching concepts and the basic wireless concepts. The activities in each chapter helped me learn how to configure VLANs, VTP, STP, and inter-vlan routing. You must purchase the LAN Switching Wireless Labs to go with it! It gives you the hands on experience that you need.¤

4) Hardcover Book LAN Switching and Wireless, CCNA Exploration Companion Guide by Cisco Press.

LAN Switching and Wireless CCNA Exploration Companion Guide

Wayne Lewis, Ph.D.

LAN Switching and Wireless, CCNA Exploration Companion Guide is the official supplemental textbook for the LAN Switching and Wireless course in the Cisco Networking Academy CCNA® Exploration curriculum version 4. This course provides a comprehensive approach to learning the technologies and protocols needed to design and implement a converged switched network. The Companion Guide, written and edited by a Networking Academy instructor, is designed as a portable desk reference to use anytime, anywhere. The book’s features reinforce the material in the course to help you focus on important concepts and organize your study time for exams.

New and improved features help you study and succeed in this course:

• Chapter objectives: Review core concepts by answering the questions listed at the beginning of each chapter.
• Key terms: Refer to the updated lists of networking vocabulary introduced and turn to the highlighted terms in context in each chapter.
• Glossary: Consult the all-new comprehensive glossary with more than 190 terms.
• Check Your Understanding questions and answer key: Evaluate your readiness with the updated end-of-chapter questions that match the style of questions you see on the online course quizzes. The answer key explains each answer.
• Challenge questions and activities: Strive to ace more challenging review questions and activities designed to prepare you for the complex styles of questions you might see on the CCNA exam. The answer key explains each answer.

Wayne Lewis is the Cisco Academy Manager for the Pacific Center for Advanced Technology Training (PCATT), based at Honolulu Community College.

How To: Look for this icon to study the steps that you need to learn to perform certain tasks.

Packet Tracer Activities: Explore networking concepts in activities interspersed throughout some chapters using Packet Tracer v4.1 developed by Cisco. The files for these activities are on the accompanying CD-ROM.

Also available for the LAN Switching and Wireless course:

LAN Switching and Wireless, CCNA Exploration Labs and Study Guide

ISBN-10: 1-58713-202-8

ISBN-13: 978-1-58713-202-5

Companion CD-ROM

The CD-ROM provides many useful tools and information to support your education:

• Packet Tracer Activity exercise files
• A Guide to Using a Networker’s Journal booklet
• Taking Notes: A .txt file of the chapter objectives
• More IT Career Information
• Tips on Lifelong Learning in Networking

This book is part of the Cisco Networking Academy Series from Cisco Press®. Books in this series support and complement the Cisco Networking online curriculum.

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