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Building Scalable Cisco Networks: Prepare for CCNP and CCDP Certification with the Official Cisco BSCN Coursbook

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The Routing 2.0 exam is 40% OSPF, 30% BGP, 20 % EIGRP and 10% general internetworking questions. This book has it all. It is easy to understand with excellent diagrams and config examples. It's the only book I needed to pass the exam. It's even a good reference book to have on the job for all those commands you can't remember 6 months after taking the test! Yes, Jeff Doyles book is fantastic, but if your main objective is to obtain your CCNP, then get this book.

I'm not usually happy with Cisco Press books. This is one of their better ones. I used this and the Mcgraw hill/Osbourne. This was well written, covered everything on the exam. Read the two and scored 900. Recommend this one highly.

This book is all that you need for the new Routing 2.0 exam. Get this book with a couple of routers and you're all set. Used this book with a pod of 6 routers and blasted the exam on the first attempt. The book has excellent labs at the end of every chapter so you get real hand on experience configuring EIGRP,OSPF,BGP, and a real profound understanding of all these routing protocols. Get this book if you really want to know the stuff and pass the exam also. Real great desktop resource for references. Let this book be your hunny for the next month and you can not fail the exam. Good book Catherine!! Really deserves 5 stars!!

I read the courseware that this book was extracted from. If your goal is to pass the CCNP 2.0 Routing exam, this book coupled with the Coriolis Exam Cram is the way to go. I used both of them and got an 875 on the exam. I also learned quite a bit.

If your goal is to get in depth knowledge of routing protocols and a good overview of TCP/IP, the Doyle book "Routing TCP/IP" is the way to go.

There are, I believe, at least two benchmarks against which one could rate this book. They are:
1) Does the book provide good coverage of the topics presented in the book, and
2) Does the book provide good coverage for all the topics you'll be tested for in BSCI (640-901).

I also believe that it would be a mistake to judge this book against a benchmark it wasn't designed for, hence, I'll confine my comments and rating from perspective 1.

The authors have done a good job with the topics presented in the book. I would recommend this book to anyone who is considering studying for the CCNP/CCIP certification and doesn't know where to begin. That said, I would suggest you look below at the list of books and testing software I found useful and necessary to prepare for the BSCI test.

Base guide: This book
Supplement for IS-IS: Lammel's BSCI book
MUST REFERENCES: Jeff Doyle's Vol 1 and 2
Testing software: Companion CD with Lammel's book, and Boson BSCI exam #2.

A few words about the test itself and how I fared. The test was tougher than I had anticipated. I say tough because, I felt that the questions and the choices were loosely worded to leave me with some doubt of my choices. So far, I've always completed the tests in somewhere between half and two-thirds the time-limit, however, it took me almost the allotted duration to complete this exam. To be candid, I felt I got lucky to have scored 907.

Note: Perhaps this review might be put in a better perspective if I said, that I've been away from hands-on experience with networks for the last five months. Prior to the break, I had worked in the internetworking industry for about five years(effectively) out of six.

I wish the best of luck to other pursuers!

This book is the only book that you need to pass your Routing exam. The information in the book is very well layed out and covered in enough detail to explain the concepts to you, but not overbore you to sleep.

If you read this book cover to cover twice (I did), then you will be more than well prepared to pass the exam. It helped me pass the exam with a score of 936.

It's well worth your money and a lot better than buying a "cram" or braindump, because after reading this book, everything will become crystal clear to you. Besides - everything you learn towards attaining your CCNP will be applied to studying for your CCIE. Don't cheat your way out with imitation books or exam crams. The test is totally based on this book and if it only takes knowing 70% of the material to pass, then this book will provide you with 120% of what you need to know.

This book is good enough to pass the test. However, it does not go deep enough into covering IP routing protocols. If you want to take it a step (or two) further, check out "Cisco IOS for IP Routing" by Andrew Colton. That book should give you a lot more information on dynamic IP routing (RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS, and BGP).

try this BSCN book from Cisco press by Catherine Paquet and Diane Teare. Excellant one with lots of pictorial illustrations router outputs with ofcourse less of errors. I could find only couple of error throughout the book. The authors are real trainers at Cisco authorised Global Knowledge Training partners,Canada eloborately covers the EIGRP,OSPF and BGP. It is highly recommended because the labs in this gives you good hands on experience. I used for my BSCN and enjoyed every bit of the reading. No need to say that most of the exam questions appeared from this book!

thanks suresh www.sureshhomepage.com

Great book that covers all routing protocols needed to pass the exam and apply to real world scenarios. This book does give a lot of debug command outputs so one would not need equipment however it is recommended because the labs in this give you good hands on experience. This with practice test software like boson was all I needed.

Very good book and detailed about NBMA OSPF EIGRP BGP and Route Distribution with examples. Every thing you need to pass CCNP 2.0 EXAM is available in this book.