CCIE Routing and Switching Official Exam Certification Guide [With CDROM]

by Naren Mehta, Jim Geier, Wendell Odom

Thia is the official self-study test preparation guide for the CCIE Routing and Switching written exam. CCIE Routing and Switching exam is the most popular CCIE exam track - the candidate now has a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1587201410
• ISBN13: 9781587201417
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Cisco Press
• Length: 1057 Pages
• Weight: 4.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 7.9" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

An excellent introduction to advanced concepts

This book is an excellent introduction into advanced Routing & Switching concepts. I have just completed the Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) examinations, and chose this book as the next logical step. I've already been very pleased with the decision. The text is understandable and well written and can easily be studied from. I've started preparing for the CCIE and am working through the book as it is written, understanding and memorizing as I go (I also use the computer software "Supermemo"). One thing I will point out: the CCIE Written Exam Blueprint (available on Cisco's website) is changed to version 3.0 as of mid-June, 2007. This book is written for the previous version of the blueprint and doesn't include all aspects of IPv6. MPLS (another new topic for the CCIE Exam) is included in the appendix of this book.

I passed!

I recently read the book titled "CCIE Routing and Switching - Official Exam Certification Guide, Second Edition", by Wendell Odom, Jim Geier and Naren Mehta. ISBN: 1587201410. Having read other titles from Wendell Odom, I had high expectations from this book. My expectations where met after reading this title. This is one of the most well put together study guides that I have read. Very well organized and easy to find information. There is a section at the end of each topic called "Memory Builders". This is a great addition to this study guide. The objective of the section is to help reinforce key topics by providing tables that you fill in key information relating to a given topic. It helps link the information in more than one place in your memory which gives the student a greater chance of remembering the information. The title covers several topics that reflect the CCIE Routing and Switching Blueprint. Some topics are cover in more detail than others. For example the sections on Wireless Networking has quite a bit information covered in the title. On the other hand IPv6 coverage is very sparse. All in the entire book does a good job of covering several topics, mostly at the fundamental level. You won't find many tips or tricks that aren't already covered in other titles. The book is geared to engrain the fundamental technologies required to pass the CCIE Routing and Switching written test. The book comes with a CD-ROM that has the entire book, in PDF format, on the CD. This is wonderful, when you want to do a quick search on something or you want to take the information on the road and travel light. The CD-ROM also has the best test engine I've ever seen in a CCIE study guide. The study guide on the CD-ROM alone is worth the price of the title. It's packed with 500 questions with user configurable settings that allow you to customize your testing experience to maximize your time. The authors, having foresight, also included a nice section on MPLS. Thinking Cisco may put MPLS back into the CCIE Routing and Switching exam again. I have read several CCIE routing and switching study titles from different publishers. This is the best study guide you'll find to date for preparing for the CCIE Routing and Switching Written exam. After reading through this material I went and took the CCIE written exam and passed. This title doesn't cover every thing you need to know, because real world experience is still required, but it covers the material you'll need to have a strong grasp of in order to pass the written exam. I would highly recommend this title for those individuals that have a fair amount of experience in data communication networking and are pursuing the coveted CCIE Routing and Switching Certification. As for me, it's on to the lab. I will be going through the Cisco Press CCIE Lab study guides and Practical Study titles. Not to mention burning a lot of midnight oil.

Worked for me

I used this book to study for and pass my CCIE R & S Written. The book has relatively few errors for its size, and I found the companion CDROM to be extremely helpful at putting concepts in another light. The software itself is standard fare with the other Cisco Press titles - kind of clunky, stops after 75 out of 100 questions, and the diagrams sometimes don't match the question, but it was still very helpful. A side effect of the software is helping you speed up comprehension of route-maps, class-maps and access-lists. The written exam demands it with 100 questions in 120 minutes. The foundation summaries at the end of the chapters often list commands that are supplemental to the chapter. While handy to see, it would have been more helpful to include an explanation of them in the chapter. Looking them up is tedious. I found the BGP section particularly helpful. The QoS and multicast sections were also superb. This book is for anyone looking to pass the R & S written, or who wants a straightforward explanation of the topics covered.

Excellent Study Guide

I used the book to study for the CCIE Written R & S and found it to be the most complete reference available. It provides a wide overview of topics but doesn't "gloss over" them. This book is a must for anyone working on their CCIE R & S.

Good Book for CCIE Written

This is a good and well written book.The main objective of this book is to cover CCIE R & S written exam.I think they have done a very good job for that.But, this book does not cover deatils of certain things such as Spanning tree. But, the book does provide refences which is really good.