Customer Reviews

CCIE Prep.com Study Guide

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1 star:		(10)

 

 

I've bought a subscription to the authors web site some time back and bought this book based on all the hard selling he was doing on his web site.

He cliams that it was a completed materials for preparing for CCIE. It's not, having taken the CCNA and CCNP, it doesn't even come close for this exams either.

Worse, all the questions are taken from his web site, so if you subscribe and you bought the book, you are basically paying OVERPRICE TWICE for the same thing in different package !

Lots of errors in the software. I never got around to the book because frankly the questions doesn't come close .

I would have put ZERO star if it's possible

This "book" is nothing of the sort. It is a collection of test questions and practice labs. The questions in general are not as specific as the questions on the real CCIE test. What this is, is a metric. The CD will test you and let you know where you need to study. The explanations of the answers are mostly good, but not in debth enough to stand as the only study tool you use. If you buy this book, use it as a measuring tool, not a study guide. By using this and studying Cisco's books, I passed the written on my first try. But then I also have 10 years of experience in the field.

I haven't tried the practice labs yet, but will post again after I do.

After passing the CCIE Written Exam last week, I re-read this book and found that it was not worth to pay such money for it.

Most of topics related to CCIE exam are not covered in this book (check the blueprint of ccie R/S on cisco web site ). Although the tilte of the book is " ... CCIE." , like many "ccie" books on the market now, it has less thing to do with the real CCIE level !

Publisher should be careful about the what this kind of books talk about and don't mislead readers !

Don't get fooled !

This book, as with most of the CCIE books available today, has many errors. Even on the CD! For sure, this book will make you study harder to verify the author knows what he's talking about.

One buys the book because there' s very little stuff like that on the market (excercises, sample questions, sample quizes). They were, probably, the first to come up with that kind of material. Yes, it is superoverpriced, yes, it is way too simple compared to the real thing. But where do you get your gas if there is only one gas pump available? I bought it. I can not honestly say it did not help me to pass the written CCIE test. It did.

I was expecting a book of good materials but I got a overprice book of questions. Having flunking twice, I feel the questions are nothing of sort of the CCIE written test.

Felt cheated

This book is not a study guide; it is a sample test. The included software leaves much to be desired - video refresh bugs and "scrambles" the answers, interesting when one of the answers is "A and B"

For my money, I would rather go with a book that tells me something, rather than just a bunch of practice questions.

I am a CCIE myself and this book is one of the worse book I have ever read.

I read few chapters of this book, and felt cheated thus far. I agree with others on this list, you could have gotten better material(s) under $99. I would suggest you to go to the bookstore and read some chapters and see if this fits your personal reference.

Sam

I have read all the chapters and done the labs for this book. But I've found that this is far from the CCIE lab exam. This book does NOT give you solid groud of the complexity of the lab. And each chapter is not really well prepared and written. As the other people stated, this book is definitely TOO expensive $$$$$ for only 600 pages.

Just passed my CCIE, and found that other books are FAR "Better" to get you with CCIE's hat.

Ronald