BCSN: Building Scalable Cisco Networks (Book/CD-ROM package) [Hardcover]

Arjan Aelmans (Author), Floris Houniet (Author), Tan Nam Kee (Author), Tan Nam-Kee (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 25, 2000 | Series: McGraw-Hill Technical Expert

-- Written by Tom Thomas of NetCerts one of the most preeminent online Cisco sites. Online features of the book on NetCerts to include author interviews and online roundtables with authors that allow readers and authors to interact!
-- Each chapter includes a FAQ section that will aid in troubleshooting problem areas that readers may encounter on the job.
-- 500 + questions are included that reinforce material presented.
-- Real-world case studies, scenarios and actual configurations help the reader gain practical hands-on experience.
-- Visio graphic package provided on the CD as well as a Cisco icon package that allows students to draw different router configurations as they practice for the exam.

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From the Back Cover

Complete coverage of the newly revised CCNP course!

The demand for certified networking professionals that have experience with Cisco products and Cisco-based networks has never been higher. Written in conjunction with NetCerts, the premier Cisco certification training Web site, BSCN: Building Scalable Cisco Networks gives you full, curriculum-based coverage to help you study for the CCNP exam and succeed as a Cisco professional.

Contents include:

• A complete overview of scalable internetworks
• Coverage of traffic management and routing protocols
• Transparent and source-route bridging configurations
• Extensive FAQ sections in each chapter for additional support
• Real-world case studies and actual configurations for practical hands-on experience
• Over 200 sample questions for review

Comprehensive, thorough, and reliable, this is the only book you’ll need to both help prepare for the CCNP exam, and to use as the ultimate on-the-job desk reference.

About the Author

Thomas M. Thomas II, is the series editor and founder of NetCerts (www.netcerts.com), a leading training and education site for Cisco certification. He was previously a Course Developer for Cisco Systems and has worked on the Advanced Systems Solutions Engineering Team for MCI's Managed Network Services. He is currently an Instructor/Consultant for Chesapeake Network Solutions (www.ccci.com ). Floris Houniet started working with Cisco routers for a large international telecom company in The Netherlands, and has since become a Networking consultant, working on projects for a number of enterprise networks throughout Europe. Currently he is concentrating his work area to the Benelux and the UK. Arjan Aelmans has worked for various IT contracting agencies in The Netherlands supporting their customer's large-scale multivendor networks. He is CEO of Allied Network Research, a Dutch-based consultancy company where he develops training programs and trains the new Cisco curriculum. Arjan holds an MCSE and MCP+I certification. Tam Nam-Kee (CCIE#4307 and CCSI #98976)is the Founding Director of Couver Network Consulting, a consulting firm that provides consulting and training services to Corporate and Government clients. He has provided extensive Cisco training to hundreds of networking professionals from multinational organizations such as Air Lanka, AT&T, Citibank, Compaq, Credit Suisse First Boston,Hewlett Packard, IBM, Merrill Lynch,and many others.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 496 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies (September 25, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072124776
• ISBN-13: 978-0072124774
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.8 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,783,956 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Useful Book, but large number of errors!, October 16, 2000

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This review is from: BCSN: Building Scalable Cisco Networks (Book/CD-ROM package) (Hardcover)

I just took and passed this exam with a score of 806. (690 required to pass, on a scale of 1000). I have four years experience with cisco routers.

I found this book very useful for learning several protocols that I have not used in the past. HOWEVER, this was complicated by the fact that there are large number of errors in the book. Most of the errors are in the figures and examples. It is so bad that I finally stopped looking at the examples and did my own example in a test lab. DONT EXPECT TO PASS THIS EXAM WITH ONLY THIS BOOK AS YOUR GUIDE.

That having been said, the authors still manage to get their point across in a fairly short period of time.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not recommended, October 25, 2000

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Jack (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: BCSN: Building Scalable Cisco Networks (Book/CD-ROM package) (Hardcover)

This book has so many technical errors it is essentially useless for its intended purpose, as a study aid for the BSCN test. Not only are there many technical errors, but the authors basic sentence structure is sometimes incoherent. I would not recommend this book to anyone. I will be sending it back for a refund!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Better Read Up!, October 29, 2000

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Mike Patterson (Upset Reader!) - See all my reviews

This review is from: BCSN: Building Scalable Cisco Networks (Book/CD-ROM package) (Hardcover)

Want to know how many errors I have found in this book? Let's just choose Chapter 9. (keep in mind I took the course.) I never took the test so I bought the book to brush up on BGP. The author hasn't ever used BGP, otherwise he would have known that the "set communities" command is used in the Router(config-route-map)# command mode and let you know how to configure it. One of the most important objectives 'Route maps' is scattered in other sections requiring it, but there is no chapter or section on how to create them?!? There is two lines of code on creating them. There are over 30 commands used in route maps that you have to know for the exam! Where are they? Both the "match" and "set" commands, there are over 30 of them. The "show ip bgp neighbors" output was copied from the original 1.0 of the Cisco student guide. How do I know this? There where errors in the output that werent fixed yet from the original Cisco student guide and missing two variables. They are the same two missing in the book. The configurations for the labs, if you apply them on a router, the syntaxes are backwords and won't work for a few of the commands. Not only that, there is 140 messages received and sent on the output. With the neighbors configured, the received messages would have been much higher than the sent. The output isn't real! This was a rush job on a book and the most important part is BGP. Someone who knew BGP should have wrote the chapter that covers 50 percent of the exam. I just looked at one chapter and realized all the mistakes. Not only that the commands don't show the syntaxes which you need to know for the exam.