Cisco Networking Academy Program: First-Year Companion Guide [Hardcover]

Vito Amato (Author), Wayne Lewis (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1587130033 | ISBN-13: 978-1587130038 | Publication Date: May 2000 | Edition: Revised

Cisco Networking Academy Program: First-Year Companion Guide, Revised Printing, is the Cisco-approved textbook for Semesters 1 and 2 of the Cisco Networking Academy Program online curriculum. This textbook completes the online learning experience by providing easily accessible printed course material that tracks to Version 2.1 of the online curriculum. Specifically developed to help maximize the students training time both on and away from the computer. This newly revised printing includes extensive appendixes that incorporate the new topics from Version 2.1 of the online curriculum. New appendices on computer basics and network troubleshooting and expanded sections on physics, electricity, and binary and hexadecimal conversion lay the groundwork for networking comprehension with Version 2.1 of the online curriculum.

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From the Back Cover

The Only Authorized Textbook for the Cisco Networking Academy Program Additional chapters, not found within the Web-based curriculum, include troubleshooting, residential networking, and moreCompanion CD-ROM contains exclusive enrichment materials such as interactive e-Lab activities, animations, and CCNA preparation questions that prepare you for the practical portion of the CCNA examChapter objectives provide references to the concepts covered in each chapterReview questions at the end of each chapter help track your progress and focus your studyNew Command Summary adds to your understanding of commands used to configure Cisco routers and references the chapters in which each command appearsMaterial covered in this book helps you prepare for CCNA Exam #640-507 Cisco Networking Academy Program: First-Year Companion Guide, Second Edition is the Cisco-approved textbook for the first and second semesters of the Cisco Networking Academy Program. This book supports and reinforces the Web-based curriculum for the Cisco Networking Academy Program, while reinforcing concepts pertaining to CCNA certification. The first-year guide provides an in-depth discussion of the OSI reference model layers and path determination, in addition to the configuration details for IP routing and addressing, subnetting topics, and basic router configuration and operation. The instructional materials for the First-Year Companion Guide follow the instructional style and format that Cisco Systems has created for the Cisco Networking Academy Program and is the only print companion that Cisco Systems reviewed and endorses for the Cisco Networking Academy Program --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Cisco Systems, Inc., is a leading global supplier of internetworking solutions, including routers, LAN and ATM switches, dial-up access servers and network management software. This book is a collaboration of multiple authors who have developed the ultimate guide in internetworking technologies and detailing how the technologies interact. Vito Amato is the Information Technology Director at the Arizona Department of Education, where he is designing and building a state-wide network for the transmission of educational data over the World Wide Web. Vito has been involved in the planning and implementation of the Cisco Systems Networking Academy curriculum.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 528 pages
• Publisher: Cisco Systems; Revised edition (May 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1587130033
• ISBN-13: 978-1587130038
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 8.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,466,376 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Good. Just not perfect., July 14, 2000

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Dennis Nordling (Redondo Beach, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cisco Networking Academy Program: First-Year Companion Guide (Hardcover)

I found the content within this book is an excellent aid to the CCNA online courseware (version 2.1). Further, without this book I would be unable to study all the material offline, because courseware (version 2.1) is designed to restrict printing.

The book doesn't follow the courseware, chapter to lesson; but the order is still the same, and the contect is mostly word for word.

The Flash Card software, found on the CD, tests your knowledge, and when you fail a question the software directs you to the chapter where you need to review. This software can be downloaded for free from Cisco.

The courseware movies, also found on the CD, are the same found online. Having them on the CD reduces the time waiting for the download to complete.

The Additional content found after the chapters can aid in your training, and is not easily found anywhere within the online courseware. If you want these resources, you'll need this book.

Be warned, there is a great difference in courseware between version 1.0 and 2.0 (version 2.1 is a cleaned up and slightly modified revision of 2.0). If you are taking the version 1.0 course, this book will not follow your training as well as you might want.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good study supplement to the Cisco Networking Academy course, September 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Cisco Systems Networking Academy: First-Year Companion Guide (Cisco Systems Networking Academy Program) (Textbook Binding)

As a companion piece to the Cisco Academy curriculum this book will supplement the student's understanding of the classroom material. It provides additional information in a more detailed form than the on-line curriculum and therefore may enhance the student's ability to grasp some of the more complex elements such as subnetting.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect add-on for Cisco tests., March 24, 2000

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Michael J Woznicki "Michael J Woznicki" (Holland, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cisco Systems Networking Academy: First-Year Companion Guide (Cisco Systems Networking Academy Program) (Textbook Binding)

When you want information about Windows 2000 you ask Microsoft, Netware 5 you ask Novell, with Cisco Routers and the CCNA exam you need to go to Cisco. The First year companion is the book that Cisco trains with at the Cisco Academy and this should be your book too.

The First year companion is 19 chapters starting with basic networking and the OSI model all the way through Network Management. Each chapter is detailed and well documented, yet easy enough to understand that the reading will not lose anyone.

You have figures, pictures, diagrams, tables and review questions with each chapter. You will cover topics like the seven layers of the OSI model, networking devices, ARP and RARP, topologies, TCP/IP, routing and router configuration, RIP and IGRP and the command summary.

The author does a great job in giving you as much information as possible. I think that there should have been practice questions or tests on a cd-rom included with the book; the cd included with the book is filled with videos that enhance the chapter covered in the book. Overall one of the best books I have ever reviewed.