The Ccie Study Guide [Hardcover]

Roosevelt Giles (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0079137288 | ISBN-13: 978-0079137289 | Publication Date: July 3, 1998

Written by one of the Industry's leading authorities on CCIE certification, this comprehensive book provides a wealth of technical information - all organized with one goal in mind: to help you ace this demanding exam. It tells you what you should know before you prepare for the test and how you should prepare for the test: detailed information on configuring, installing, and maintaining CISCO routers, full discussion of multiprotocols using CISCO IOS software, complete coverage of SNA configuration for multiprotocol administrators, a cd-rom with hundreds of test questions that highlight CISCO technology and products, and over 2000 questions and answers, including CISCO-specific implementations and design examples.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

An undeniably complex and difficult process, passing tests for the Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE) certification requires unparalleled, in-depth knowledge. In The Cisco CCIE Study Guide, Roosevelt Giles provides you with help on the five test-subject areas (three are needed to pass, along with a lab test, which the book does not cover). By covering the broad strokes of networking and the dauntingly obscure details of many network protocols, Giles comprehensively explains Cisco technology. The chapters are organized around networking topics such as TCP/IP, data link switching, asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), and Novell NetWare. Each chapter concludes with a set of sample questions. You may find that you disagree with the answers to the questions given at the back of the book, but keep in mind that the tests reflect Cisco's viewpoint on all the technology.

The included CD-ROM contains sample code for many examples in the book and additional sample questions. For anyone preparing for the written tests for the CCIE, this book is guaranteed to be a big help. --Robert Frankland

From the Back Cover

Get in on the CCIE career gold rush! Now's the time to make your move into the exploding CCIE (CISCO Certified Internetwork Expert) market, and this is the book that can get you there ahead of the pack. Its in-depth coverage of CISCO's full range of protocol implementations, the technologies behind the protocols, and the CCIE certification process can help you prepare for the CCIE exam. Written by one of the industry's leading authorities on CCIE certification, this comprehensive book provides a wealth of technical information--all organized with one goal in mind: to help you ace this demanding exam. It tells you what you should know before you prepare for the test and how you should prepare for the test. Detailed information on configuring, installing, and maintaining CISCO routers; full discussion of multiprotocols using CISCO IOS software. Complete coverage oF SNA configuration for multiprotocol administrators; a CD-ROM with hundreds of test questions that highlight CISCO technology and products; over 2000 questions and answers, including CISCO-specific implementations and design examples. It all adds up to the clearest and most comprehensive CCIE study guide available.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1048 pages
• Publisher: Computing Mcgraw-Hill (July 3, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0079137288
• ISBN-13: 978-0079137289
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.6 x 2.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (98 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,165,907 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Useless, January 31, 2000

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F. Edwards (Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Ccie Study Guide (Hardcover)

Way too many critical errors. Errors in the diagrams, even errors in the answers to the study questions. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. Use Doyle or Caslow and CCO to study for the exam.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly writted (poor grammer, full of mistakes), November 5, 1999

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John Sasso, Jr (Albany, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Ccie Study Guide (Hardcover)

When I first scanned through the book, I thought it was worth it to purchase due to its intensive amount of detail on various internetworking protocols at many of the OSI layers. However, as I started to read the various chapters I got a different impression. First, as many others have noted, the book is riddled with mistakes, both syntax errors and flawed "facts". Granted, no book is ever perfect on first print in this sense (I've even found a few mistakes in the Cisco Press books), but this one went well beyond the flaws I've seen in other books. The author and publisher obviously did a very poor job of proof-reading. Second, some of the grammar and explanations in the book were poor. For example, some sentences/paragraphs tended to contradict each other. Others were sometimes very vague in their explanation of a concept or technology. I am not a novice in this field, having done network engineering and have an in-depth knowledge of protocols such as TCP/IP, and network devices and architecture. In short, a major re-editing of this book is required before I even pay a dime for it.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Error Rich, July 19, 2000

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Kasey A. King (Wichita, KS USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Ccie Study Guide (Hardcover)

This guide has more errors in it than ANY technical manual I have ever read. They appear both in the sample questions and the in-chapter examples. I would wait for the 2nd edition...