CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Certification Guide (Cisco Career Certification.)

Author - Anthony Bruno ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Hardcover Book item from Cisco Press was reviewed on 11-Dec-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Certification Guide (Cisco Career Certification.) by Cisco Press. Sorry Cisco I love your stuff but this book falls well below the standard I would expect from one of your publications. I´m a CCIE I passed my lab Jan 2001 and took my recertification 2 years ago in IP routing. My job has changed a little since then and I no longer have as much routing exposure as I used too I´m now all LAN at a large datacenter and some OSPF. Anyway I got this book to help me with my second recert, I wanted a quick read it once and pass it guide. Well with the CCIE its just not possible, sorry but its simply not that type of certification not even the written you need to know this stuff DEEP, no shortcuts IMHO.

This book promises a lot but simply does not live up to it, as a CCIE I used this book to take my recert and failed. So I hit the real books, the one´s that got me through the exam and lab 6 years ago, TCP/IP Volume 1 and now Volume 2 by Jeff Doyle, Lan switching for CCIE´s, and Internet routing architectures from Halibi (BGP is also covered in the Doyle V2 book now), and passed the written exam with a 93%. I would also add a Cisco specific QoS book to the reading list as well for the 350-001 exam as there was a lot of QoS in the exam and Doyle does not cover it.

The titles above brought a lot stuff flooding back to me, stuff I forgot and stuff that the certification guides like this one were not able to restore from my memory.

Believe me there are no shortcuts to getting this I should know it cost me over $300 for the exam and 160 bucks on 2 certification books to find that out, oh yeah this also applies to the flash card book for the CCIE written also available from Cisco.

Positives are that the book does have a good general coverage of the subjects for day to day referance but no where near deep enougth and links to websites with the rest of the info you need but with this book and the flashcard book alone your not going to pass this the written exam. Its way to deep an exam for that save your money and get the Doyle books.¤

2) Hardcover Book CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Certification Guide (Cisco Career Certification.) by Cisco Press. Hi,
I´m a CCNP and CCDA and I´ve always used CiscoPress Certifications books to prepare my exams.
I bought this book hoping that, as the others, it would give me all the elements to pass the test. Oh...if I was wrong.
Soon after starting reading it I realized that this book wasn´t teaching anything. Each topic was just mentioned and not really unfold as the exam requires.
I wasted a week reading it and...you know what? At the end I studied on my CCNP books, integrating what was missing with documents on Cisco CCO. I passed the written test this morning at the first try.
Don´t waste you money on this. Please¤

3) Hardcover Book CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Certification Guide (Cisco Career Certification.) by Cisco Press. I bought this book in hopes of having an all in one resource for the CCIE written exam. This book barely touches the surface of some very important concepts for the CCIE written exam and is not enough for any real world task.

Another issue I have, is the author uses all the acronyms, but doesn´t write them out. I have a great deal of experience in working with many of these technologies, so it´s not such a big deal for me, but others may find this frustrating.

The CCNP level books (Routing, Switching) cover the technologies in much greater detail. The exam certification guide is extremely weak, and maybe good for a quick refresher prior to takeing the exam, or perhaps recertifying. Otherwise, I´d look for better material.¤

4) Hardcover Book CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Certification Guide (Cisco Career Certification.) by Cisco Press. I am reviewing the CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Certification Guide (ISBN 1587200538), which is the official preparation guide for the CCIE R&S exam from Cisco Press. The book weighs in at 688 pages, which is about right for a book of its type. The problem is that the type of book that it is doesn´t really work for an exam like the CCIE. If we were talking about the CCNA or one of the single CCNP exams, I´d say "sure, you can get it all in one book", but not the CCIE. This book is a lot like reading a menu in that you get enough information to get you interested in a topic and decide if you need to learn more. The problem, however, is that in the case of the CCIE exam, you don´t need a menu, you need a cookbook! The actual purpose of this book, as stated in the Foreword, is that it should act as a late-stage exam preparation tool to help you assess our strengths and weaknesses and focus your study. Basically, once you´ve gotten to that late stage, you´ve been reading for about six months and all this book does is breezes over all of the stuff that you´ve already learned. Occasionally, you might hit something you haven´t read before and might take a moment to fill in that particular gap, but largely you feel like you´re wasting your time. A book covering this wide a range of topics is easy to stall out on. If you feel like you´re not getting anything out of your valuable reading time, you really have no motivation to keep going. I personally stopped this thing halfway through, read a book on poker and then came back to it.

I think a better approach to future editions of this book might be to rewrite it as a preliminary study tool for the CCIE. They could take each of the blueprint objectives and write a chapter which explains in detail what knowledge and experience you need to have in order to pass that objective. Readers could use the end-of-the-chapter assessments to make a judgment call on how much studying they need to do on that objective. Each chapter should also make suggestion of where the reader could go to get additional knowledge on the topics covered in that chapter. See, what I was missing early on in my CCIE studies was a "test prep quarterback" to point me in the right direction. I think this book would keep the reader´s attention better if it was recommended as the first thing to do in the test prep process, not the last.

Okay, okay... I think I´ve dwelled on the negatives quite long enough. There are some things I really liked about this book. First off, since it´s widely known that CCIE candidates can never get enough practice questions, it´ll be no surprise that I liked having the practice exam on the CD. I also liked the Scenarios at the end of each chapter. They really made you think and try to apply what you´ve read. I´d like to see an entire book of them. I also found the authors style to be very readable. Anthony Bruno took the challenge of writing a book that covers the entire CCIE blueprint and got it all into 688 pages. That takes a very concise writing style, and he pulls it off.

In conclusion, I´d have to say that I´d recommend this book to others, but as a preliminary guide and not as a final exam prep tool. Someone coming in cold, or even coming off of the CCNP exams, would really benefit from this book as indoctrination into the level of study necessary to prepare for the CCIE. I´d warn them, however, that this book isn´t meant to be used as a one-stop shop. You really must read other books and get a lot more information off of CCO in order to prepare properly for the CCIE.

I give this book a 3 on my 5 ping rating scale.
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5) Hardcover Book CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Certification Guide (Cisco Career Certification.) by Cisco Press. I am really surprised that this book is even passed off as a resouce to use by Cisco to pass the test. It touches on alot of things but only at a surface level. If you do pass the written it will not be because you read this book. Take my advice and the advice of others: save your money and spend it on the book by Rob Payne et al.

This is somewhat of a shock and disappointment because I used Bruno´s CCDA book to prepare for that test and it was an excellent resource.¤

6) Hardcover Book CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Certification Guide (Cisco Career Certification.) by Cisco Press.

The official preparation guide for the new CCIE Routing and Switching written exam

CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Certification Guide is a comprehensive study and assessment tool. Written and reviewed by CCIEs and developed with the assistance of the CCIE program manager, this book is appropriate preparation for the new CCIE Routing and Switching qualification exam released in August 2002 by Cisco Systems. You´ve logged in hours learning a broad range of advanced concepts, you have applied them to real-world networks, and now you´re ready to increase and reinforce your knowledge in preparation for Cisco Systems´ CCIE Routing and Switching written exam. Optimize your study time by assessing your knowledge of the material at the start and close of each chapter with customized quizzes for each topic. Assist your memory by reviewing summary information at the end of each chapter, which presents you with the most succinct review of crucial concepts. Test your comprehension at the end of each chapter with review questions and determine the assimilation of knowledge by stepping through a series of scenarios.

Review all CCIE Routing and Switching and CCIE Communications and Services General Knowledge topics:

The companion CD-ROM includes over 200 practice exam questions in a simulated testing environment, customizable so you can focus on the areas in which you need the most review. With experience and training under your belt, this book enables you to retain and master the knowledge vital for passing the CCIE written exam and brings you that much closer to being a fully certified CCIE.

CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Certification Guide is part of a recommended study program from Cisco Systems that can include simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners, hands-on experience, and self-study guides from Cisco Press.¤

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