LAN Switching and Wireless, CCNA Exploration Companion Guide (2nd Edition) (Companion Guide)
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The all-new and only authorized textbook for the new Cisco Networking Academy CCNA Exploration LAN Switching and Wireless course
LAN Switching and Wireless, CCNA Exploration Companion Guide is the official supplemental textbook for this CCNA Exploration course from the Cisco Networking Academy. Completely revised to match the new curriculum with new examples and explanations, this textbook includes original material developed by the authors, yet it fully aligns with the CCNA Exploration curriculum. This new edition augments student understanding of course material. The new edition incorporates recently improved features to aid instructors and enhance student comprehension. Chapters align with course modules in both name and number, and chapter objectives are stated as questions to encourage students to think about and find answers as they read chapters. End-of-chapter Check Your Understanding questions and Summaries align with chapter objectives to emphasize key topics, while key terms are listed in each chapter opener in the order of occurrence to alert students to upcoming vocabulary words. In addition, key features include "How To" quick references for step-by-step tasks; real-world examples and all-new illustrations; concise explanations with a focus on word usage and sentence structure for improved readability; and Packet Tracer activities throughout. |
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| 09-29-08 | 5 | (NA) |
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Everything about this purchase was great.
Book was exactly as described. Shipping was perfect. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-10-12 05:56:43 EST)
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| 08-12-08 | 1 | (NA) |
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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. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-09-30 04:27:03 EST)
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| 08-12-08 | 3 | (NA) |
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The book is exhaustive, but exhausting. It doesn't integrate and simplify the concepts will enough and, conversely, there are instances where explanations are not fleshed out thoroughly.
There are times when the book is very good, but there are also too many times where it just trudges through procedures without really helping you understand why each step is happening. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-08-14 04:47:41 EST)
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| 06-20-08 | 5 | (NA) |
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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. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-08-13 04:47:15 EST)
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