Customer Reviews

CCNA e-trainer

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Nicly done by Sybex. Todd Lammle's book in a hands-on CBT format. This is a great addition if you are studying Todd Lammle's CCNA book, which everyone should be.

I passed CCNA exam using this book.
If you don't have any experience and access to cisco router,
this helps a lot.
If you already have a router or access in your office,
this is too cheap for you, some commands do not work.
But as no-experience and no-IT professional student,
this was great CD.

I used this e-trainer plus the Sybex CCNA Virtual Lab Gold for 3 weeks and passed 640-507 with a 945/1000 score. The e-Trainer includeds all the text from the Sybex CCNA 2.0 Study Guide, plus animated training, study prep and test questions and evaluations. The Lab excersizes in the e-Trainer map directly to the Labs in the Sybex CCNA Virtual Lab Gold. Great combination for learning at a reasonable price.

This package is good for acquiring the basics of routing and switching. However, the questions are unlike that of the actual exams, which are thought-provoking, and far from straight-forward. Some questions on the real exam are not covered in your package. Insofar as the package itself, the feedback popup is quite annoying, and the user needs to be able to edit the test in order to eliminate answering easy questions repetitively. Also, there are some errors in the material. I believe that an update with more "real-life" scenarios is in order. I believe this package was probably fine for the previous 507 exam, but I did not take that exam...

I am still in the process of studying this CBT as of 5/21/01. I am finding the book to be very informative, but I wish the test would provide you an explanation for the ones missed so you will know you're weak points.

This was an excellant beginners view of configuring routers; however, the program did not support all of the commands or common shortcuts used. It has a limited number of practice sessions which are fairly weak. Past this, it gave a very good representation of the working environment, it allowed for interface creation and configuration, and it gives a practice network for you to configure. Very good buy for the very beginner, but if you've been doing cisco routers for a while forget it.

It's a study aid for the CCNA study guide. It lets you plan a study schedule and track the progress (big deal ) you can do that with any schedule program. It has tons of questions ( over 600 ?) some are the same as in the book and a lots of new ones. You have the usual two modes for testing, practice and timed. The practice mode does show you the correct answer but with no explanations. The timed mode gives you nothing. Only how many questions you get right. Will not show you the correct answers or even which ones you missed or answered correctly. No explanations at all. And of course my biggest objection as always with these types of test questions is the Inability to print the questions.