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CCNA ICND2 Official Exam Certification Guide (CCNA Exams 640-816 and 640-802) (2nd Edition)

 
CCNA ICND2 Official Exam Certification Guide (CCNA Exams 640-816 and 640-802) (2nd Edition)
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CCNA ICND2 Official Exam Certification Guide (CCNA Exams 640-816 and 640-802) (2nd Edition)

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CCNA ICND2 Official Exam Certification Guide

Second Edition

 

  • Master ICND2 640-816 and CCNA 640-802 exam topics with the official study guide
  • Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes
  • Review key concepts with Exam Preparation Tasks
  • Practice with hundreds of exam questions on the CD-ROM

 

Wendell Odom, CCIE® No. 1624

 

CCNA ICND2 Official Exam Certification Guide, Second Edition, is a best of breed Cisco® exam study guide that focuses specifically on the objectives for the CCNA® ICND2 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.

 

CCNA ICND2 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.

 

CCNA ICND2 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 CCNA ICND2 exam, including

  • Virtual LANs and Spanning Tree Protocol
  • Static and connected routes
  • VLSM and route summarization
  • IP access control lists
  • OSPF and EIGRP configuration
  • Point-to-point WANs
  • Frame Relay
  • VPNs
  • Network address translation
  • IPv6
  • Troubleshooting

 

Companion CD-ROM

The CD-ROM contains an electronic copy of the book and 200 practice questions for the ICND2 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: CCNA ICND2 Exam 640-816

 

 

Product Details:
Author: Wendell Odom
Hardcover: 744 pages
Publisher: Cisco Press
Publication Date: September 09, 2007
Language: English
ISBN: 158720181X
Product Length: 9.79 inches
Product Width: 7.37 inches
Product Height: 1.85 inches
Product Weight: 3.33 pounds
Package Length: 9.21 inches
Package Width: 7.72 inches
Package Height: 1.89 inches
Package Weight: 3.22 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 23 reviews
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Average Customer Review: 3.5 ( 23 customer reviews )
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3 of 4 found the following review helpful:

2Lacks critical CCNA materialOct 05, 2009
By PMC
The ICND1/ICND2 books lack critical information needed to pass the CCNA or ICND1/ICND2 exams. For example, the author states in the ICND2 chapter on OSPF that "DR (designated router) and BDR (backup designated router) election is covered in Cisco CCNP course material... however this material is *critical* to passing the CCNA exam.

While taking practice tests in from one of Todd Lammle's books, I found myself completely stumped by some of the questions - material that was never covered in Odom's book(s). I cannot in good conscience recommend these books to anyone that is looking to pass their CCNA exam, unless you buy at least another book or two as filler.

7 of 10 found the following review helpful:

1Worse than the part 1...Aug 07, 2009
By CJC
I began this book ready to knock it out then ace the test. I'm about a third of the way through and I simply feel like Odom has simply given up on trying to actually explain himself. I'm reading the VLSM calculations in chapter 5 right now and have come to the conclusion that he just wants to give examples now with ZERO explanation as to why you'd do anything. For example: page 210, step 5 contains the answer to two possible classful or classless scenarios. Odom, however, gives no reasoning behind why the first 4 subnets would not work in a question that would not allow the zero subnet. Why are they not allowed?! Maybe I missed his explanation somewhere earlier but a recap sure would be nice. This book is plagued with this type of shoddy reasoning and like other people are saying, I too think he is just making words up at this point. I'm also sick of rereading paragraph after paragraph just to understand what he's attempting to say. Mr Odom, please, please, please write a study guide that puts the scenario setups before the explanations. Start a new topic with a scenario, answer the scenario then explain why you did what you did. Do not explain the topic, give reasoning about some scenario that was setup 2 chapters before, begin another example, give the reasoning, restate what you've just said 10 different and more confusing ways, then give the answer to summarize. It's confusing! topic, scenario, answer then explain...

4 of 6 found the following review helpful:

5Great - pair this with test questions and you'll pass on first try.May 04, 2009
By Anthony
This book is the authority on all topics required to pass ICND2. Every little detail on the test is covered by this book. Here's the best part - it reads very well. Its not full of fluff or unnecessary text that the author added it just to beef up the book. Wendel is straight and to the point. After you're done reading this, do about 300-400 practice questions only on the ICND2 topics; I did, and I passed ICND2 on the first try.

4 of 6 found the following review helpful:

2Good book, horrible Boson test engineAug 19, 2008
By History buff
I passed the ICND1 test with Odom's book, and the included Boson Test engine test questions had me well prepared for the actual exam. The Boson test engine included with this particular book does not prepare you well for the actual exam, with hardly any scenarios where you are doing an actual beginning to end configuration of the various technologies that are part of the ICND2 exam objectives. It is also filled with bugs, and the Boson people have provided a bug reporting system. They do not respond and have not corrected any of the bug requests that I sent over five months ago. Read the book, but forget Boson as reliable gauge as to what will be asked of you on the exam.

2 of 3 found the following review helpful:

4Good - but not nearly as good as it should beMay 24, 2011
By L. Wick
Many of the explanations are rushed, vague and inconclusive. Instead of explaining command syntax the text often relies on examples extracted from show running-config output that fall short of illustrating the options in the commands. Have the CCNA Portable Command Guide handy, though that text, also, has strange ommissions. What I've ended up doing is to rely on the ICND2 cert guide as a framework for my studies while bouncing between it, the ccna portable command guide, and the CCNP ROUTE and SWITCH foundation learning guides, as well as frequent use of google to find the hard-core Cisco docs online. THIS BOOK SHOULB BE MORE COMPLETE. Seriously: there's no reason on earth to write a study guide that doesn't contain what's needed.

One more thing: Odom and Cisco Press ought to have had this run past a competent technical editor. Here's some typical bad language: "The information that correlates to the next-hop router's Layer 3 address, and the Layer 2 address used to reach it, is called mapping." While that's true, in a tortured way, it couldn't have been said much more badly. No one edited this stuff. Here's a simple principle: the language should make understanding easier, not harder. A mess like the one I just quoted makes it all much harder.

There are outright errors that will be confusing for someone learning the material for the first time. Here's the first example of an IPv6 address from chapter 17: "2340:1111:AAAA:0001:1234:5678:9ABC" A little short, no?

This book amounts to a skeleton outline with SOME successful explanations and examples. As such it's not a bad thing to organize your studies around. But wading through it is a LOT more work than it should be: the difficulty of the material doesn't justify the difficulty of reading it. The difficulty of working around the mistakes is considerable.

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