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Cisco CCNP Remote Access Exam Certification Guide (Cisco Career Certifications)

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Excellent study guide. Great detailed explaination of the examples shown in the book. It help you understanding the concepts better. It help me pass the exam.

The exam topics were broken down into 12 chapters that were discretely sized. It made the material easy to chew. I liked the length of this book. This author didn't get wrapped up in wording. It was precise and to the point, covering pretty much just the material on the exam. It really decreased the difficulty in preparing for the test by narrowing the field.
I noticed a couple of errors, but nowhere near the amount of errors that the Routing Exam Certification Guide had.
There are the right number examples speckling the topic discussions, but not too many to confuse or get you off course. I liked that the author included the configuration mode before the command examples - router(config#) command. There is no glossary of terms, but the chapter summaries, questions and the scenarios were well done. Overall, it's a great guide!

Excellent companion to the BCRAN book. The CD has a test engine and a bunch of other usefull informaion. The CD alone is worth the price of the book.

This book is very very good study guide for BCRAN test. It is very helpful if you have learned the material and use it as for review. Use it with BCRAN course material! The Cisco Press BCRAN book has a lot of information, but not very organized. This book helps you systematically prepare for the test.

This book is an excellent study tool for the Remote Access Exam. The sections on ISDN and Frame Relay are well-written, as is the rest of this certification guide.

Oh, and I passed the test on the first try.

Absolutely excellent. This is the best of the 4 CCNP Cert guides, and one of the best titles in my large Cisco Press collection. It's also one of the few cert-oriented guides that would stand just as well (if not better) as a "regular" reference. It's far better than Building Cisco Remote Access Networks; the authors certainly seem more knowledgable, to be sure.

Concise, accurate, and readable. This is one of the few books that someone could get away with using alone for a CCNP-level exam, and one of the best Cisco Press titles in general.

I worked (hard) on this book for 3 weeks (without doing the labs), and I passed the #640-505 today with a 808 (703 required). To be clear I will just enumerate the good and bad points; here are the good ones:
1. It covers very well the exam (except for the chapter about Win95! there were questions in the exam, but hopefully very easy), and some questions in the CD were in the real exam
2. Short and clear
3. Only a very very few mistakes (actually I found only a couple of them, mostly on the CD, which decided me not to buy any book whom reviewers say it is full of mistakes)
4. Feeling to learn something, not just working for an exam (just a feeling, not a proof it is a good book !)

The bad ones:
1. The test exams on CD do not respect the format of the exam; when it is about IOS commands, you have to choose within a list of 40 or more commands, not just 4 as usual. Actually, I found it more difficult to choose within 4 commands than 40, because the 40 ones are mostly all different one from another. But he could have told me what was the exam format!
2. It covers the exam, but the study is not in depth; too often I had questions on topics I had seen, but "ah, just on this case, what happen ?"
3. Consequence of the (2): I will not keep this book; I've taken my little notes, now I can sell it. The advantage of this book is also the disadvantage: it is designed to make you pass the exam, no more. But it is in the informal contract from the beginning.

If you want to pass the exam learning things, buy this book. It is really more than enought, and a pleasure to read.

Brian Morgan's book is not only easy to read, it also gives more info than it is required for the exam. Especially the Q/A parts at the end of each chapter were pretty similiar with the real exam. Well let me put it this way, I definitely owe him these 5 stars.

I have very little experience with any of these dying technologies but I passed the exam easily (841/1000 - passing 706) after reading the book. Just read the book cover to cover and do the CD-ROM practice test.

I was able to pass the 640-605 test handily using this book as my primary source of study information.

There were a good number of small mistakes, (for example a 2511 router has 16 and not eight asynchronous interfaces) which were mildly annoying. One would hope that it would have been better edited technically. Still, it's better than the other choices out there, some of which I've been very disappointed in.

The text was organized well, and was surprisingly easy to study, especially considering the subject matter. As a Cisco book, it seemed to have a clearer idea of what the test would expect; I noticed no major oversights as I took the test.

Overall, very good, with some improvements possible.