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Todd Lammle's CCNA IOS Commands Survival Guide

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Lammle's stated objective is to help the reader prepare for and pass the difficult CCNA exam. This book expands a bit on that objective. He states in the introduction that this is supplementary material. It's written to assist the student in understanding the line of thought behind the technology.
I found that quite useful. The CCNA is a rigorous exam; those who pass it have a pretty good understanding of the concepts and protocols. But "real world" practice is a trickier thing, especially NAT, and Lammle's book concisely tackles those issues of keeping a network running. He clearly discusses the "why". I'm keeping the book on my desk as a reference work beyond just exam prep. It's money well-spent.

I wanted a quick reference guide that was complete enough to actually program routers and switches ... not theory. 90% of the time I have a question, I can get it answered from this book in less than a minute. So, five stars from me.

No guide will be perfect for everyone. This is not a textbook and not for learning. Great lightweight reference and for review of a topic. Good style and clean layout, but not exciting. The Index in the back of the book WORKS.

This is book is a great book to reference to when you need assistance with CLI commands. It has tremendously helped at work and also while at school. I definitely recommend this book.

If you already have one of Lammle's several Cisco study guides, then you can pass on this. Its an abridgement of the most commonly used commands and their extensions, with Todd's personal explanation of the nuances and maybe even mystifying trickeries. I thought it was going to be in outline, tree-type form with every IOS command for all versions, which you can make yourself if one has the time on cisco.com. So if you are familiar with Todd's work, you'll be saying "where have I read this before?". This is a buy if you do not already have his other texts.

In the most of times we can't remember every single command, and how to implemnt them with the specific procedures, this book is a very handy book, you can remember things by looking at the examples inside. Advice it for technicians who works for many customers, so they use a veriety of commands different every day.

This is a great little book to pick up and do a little refreshing of the old noodle. Each technology has its own little summary section which is very helpful (unlike the official Cisco Press Portable command guide which is just straight command routines). As usual Todd has added his own little insights and factoids to keep things interesting and fun.

I own this book and the cisco press command guide. I recommend them both, and cross reference for better clarification on command routines. They are both worth their weight in gold unless you enjoy hitting the ? key all day....

I have found this book to be a very good reference for the IOS commands while preparing for my CCNA, but that is what i have come to expect from Cisco books written by Todd Lammle. the book goes through a good amount of commands, gives you the syntax and the output you should receive. This has become something i keep on my desk in case i am in need of a reference.

If you are working towards your CCNA this is a great book to have, it goes a bit more in depth then the other IOS command reference guides you might find. if you team this up with a good CCNA book, and some experience on ether lab equipment or on packet tracer you should have no problem passing the exam.