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CCNA Test Yourself Practice Exams (Exam 640-507)

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While this book does seem to cover the range of topics necessary for the CCNA exam, it contains a large number of errors, and questions and explanations that are incomplete or badly worded.

Just reading the first two chapters was enough to make me put down the book and run back to my Todd Lammle books for a while, just to make sure it wasn't ME that was off-base (thankfully, it wasn't). Lammle is concise, explains well, and is, most importantly, consistent.

Also, as others have mentioned, the book tends to be a bit "out of bounds" in a number of areas.

Finally, why aren't the tests included in electronic format? For $40, I expect a CD. It's a shame when supposed purveyors of new technology training still produce only in a dark-ages format.

My advice? Save your $, buy Lammle's books, and use online study resources. While this book isn't a waste, I simply didn't feel that I got my money's worth.

After studying the study guide by Todd Lammle, I use this book for my practice. Wow, it is advanced level, it seems to be out of the scope of the basice level of CCNA.

I would appreciate that this book contains these advanced questions. It really gives me challenge. But I just want to buy an exam-oriented practice book, I would like to get a book with many questions within the scope rather than many advanced questions out of the scope.

This book is priceless. Especially given the fact that there are not many practise CCNA exams available. I read Lamle's book "CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide" cover to cover. I chose it based on reviews at Amazon but was in for a shock when I opened the "Cisco Ccna Test Yourself Practice Exams". It gave me a lot of areas to get more info ... areas left out of Lamle's book (such as ATM and router screen shots for frame-relay & ISDN configs). The questions on subnetting are the best I've seen anywhere.

Final words ... get hands-on, GET THIS BOOK & comb through it at least 2-3 weeks before the exam. I could not have passed without it. Kudos to the authors.

I've found too many completely wrong answers in this book to ever recommend it. Also, as another reviewer pointed out, too much extraneous material that does not apply to the CCNA test. Not completely worthless, but a waste of time overall when better, more focused, and error-checked books are available (e.g. Lammle)

I bought this book along with the Cisco Press CCNA book and expected to get some questions that would prepare me for the exam. It does that job *ok*, but there are *so* many questions that don't even come close to CCNA objectives. I mean that they were more advanced, several questions about ATM, X.25, Frame-Relay and even a few routing protocols that the CCNA doesn't even touch. If I was beginner who had little Cisco experience before, I would freak at some of those questions. The extra questions I think is just to perhaps add some filler space I guess. It seems most books from this publisher do not have as much quality as the Sybex, or even (shrug) Cisco Press. The CCNA is a lot easier than how this book may present it to be.

I found this was a good resource for the CCNA Exam, in that it represented all the CCNA exam objectives and "more". This might be viewed as a plus if your objective is to move on beyond the CCNA to CCNP or CCND but for anyone focused on the upcoming CCNA exam it may shake your confidences as it is beyond the CCNA objectives and it is laced with inaccuracies. The fact that I could find these errors helped me to know I was ready for the exam. This book takes an unwelcomed detour from its own title. I recommend it only as a supplement to other good resources such as those by Todd Lammle

Sorry I bought the book. I could not even use this book. After reading the Todd Lammle books from Sybex and the CCNA Exam Cert Guide from Cisco Press, I started looking at these questions... Wow! where did they get this stuff... It was scary! CCNA is suppost to be a basic certification. These questions were written for gurus (and some of them may have trouble). If you like shock therapy, then this book is for you.

Although the book seemed pretty complete when I purchased it, it was almost too complete. There were many areas of the book that focused on topics you will never see on the exam. The positive side of the book was that it gives the opportunity for others to quiz you with actual questions, even though many of them were innacurate and in some cases wrong. I would think the editors of this book could have been a bit more technical. Overall, the book is not bad, in fact finding the mistakes in the book and recognizing that they are wrong may be your key to successfully passing the 640-507 exam. My advice: don't make this your only study guide...

This book will help you identify topics you need to improve on. It would be a good idea to have a copy of the CCNA objectives when you go through the book, since some of it is beyond the CCNA scope. Some of the questions are designed to test your knowledge and understanding not just to simulate the exam.

This book has most of the qestions you need to pass the CCNA exam. This is for those who want to explore all the basic knowledge of Cisco, not necessarily those who want to pass the exam. The explanations of the questions is written in detail, but often times not to the point. The format of the questions are somewhat similar to the real exam. A good suppliment but too much unecessary information.