CCNP: Advanced Cisco Router Configuration Study Guide (Hardcover)

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The Advanced Cisco Router Configuration (ACRC) examination covers the management of large internetworks with a number of router-related skills. The CCNP: Advanced Cisco Router Configuration Study Guide is designed for comprehensive, self-paced preparation for this CCNP test. It builds on skills learned at the CCNA level, presenting only more advanced topics geared toward more complex networks.

Structured around the specific objectives set forth in the ACRC exam, this weighty course guide focuses on how to manage access lists, filtering, performance tuning, routing protocols, and much more. It begins with chapters on designing large scalable networks and managing their performance. From there, the guide moves into routing protocols, bridging, and scalable WAN design.

Each chapter begins with a list of the exam objectives covered. Even though the material is highly technical, the presentation flows well. The chapters wrap up with a brief summary section, review questions, and practical laboratory exercises with tasks such as "configure your router with basic SAP and RIP, and configure interfaces for IPX."

An enclosed CD-ROM contains the EdgeTest test software for this exam, loaded with 200 sample questions. It also includes an IP address calculator and a trial version of Visio Professional for diagramming networks. This official study guide is the most thorough and targeted preparation text available for the ACRC examination. --Stephen W. Plain

Topics covered: Scalable network design, IP/IPX traffic control, TCP/IP routing and routing protocols, AppleTalk, bridging, WAN scalability, Cisco serial line support, and Dial-on-Demand Routing.

Product Description

The Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) denotes proficiency in supporting internetworks that use routing and bridging technologies. This CCNP Study Guide maps Cisco's Advanced Cisco Router Configuration exam and provides full coverage of crucial exam topics, including review sections and hundreds of practice questions. This book can also be used as an advanced user's guide to working with Cisco routers. The CD contains test-preparation software and additional information resources.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 762 pages
• Publisher: Sybex Inc (April 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782124038
• ISBN-13: 978-0782124033
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.8 x 2.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (110 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,921,111 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy it. Pass it., June 3, 1999

By A Customer

Todd Lammle has done it again! I don't care about the occassional error in the text as much as I care about results. I just passed ACRC about an hour ago. What more do you want?

The quote I'll use to describe the advantages of Lammle's book over Laura Chappell's official Cisco text is, "I don't need for you to explain the watch, just tell me what time it is," -- at least for ACRC testing purposes. I bought, studied, and will be keeping both books. You should consider doing the same because a bit of repetition never hurt anybody. While Chappell's book is the better in-depth, verbose reference, Lammle's book is unquestionably better for ACRC test preparation. The book is mapped directly to the ACRC test objectives and Lammle has trimmed a lot of the fat. The 259 question EdgeTest that comes on CD with the book is the push over the top. If you can answer every question correctly and understand WHY the right answer is the right answer and WHY the other answers are wrong, you're ready. Practice Lammle's exercise labs on your router, too, to get the much needed familiarity with the IOS commands.

Compared to a 5-day ACRC course which costs $1900 in my area (and likely requires another week or more of study before testing), this book for less than a 50 spot is a staggering bargain. Buy it and spend ample time with it. I invested a little over a month and I sit here today with ACRC behind me.

Todd, my pocketbook thanks you.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great book, but..., November 25, 1999

By A Customer

the Cisco press Adv. Cisco Router Config. book by Laura Chappell is ALSO needed inorder to pass the test. I bought both books and passed the test. I give a 3 star because out of the 17 CCNP's/CCIE's in my company, 99% had to use both books and did not find one better than the other. Although, Chappell's book had numerous syntax errors, but with Tod's book as a reference, one should be ok. It seemed like a lot of the questions I got for the test were from Chappel's book.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A good book but..., November 17, 1999

By	Wallace C. Wong ([e-mail]) - See all my reviews

I just passed the ACRC exam yesterday! About Sybex, Todd's CCNA book was excellent. I studied that book and the exam notes and passed it, no problem. I thought his ACRC book would be of the same caliber, but I'm afraid it wasn't. It was a great effort though. But, if I didn't use the material from an ACRC course I took at a private institution, I would have failed the exam.

He's really got to revamp his OSPF section. Some of the examples in the book, Q&A, and CD test questions had wrong answers. The ACRC exam covered a lot of OSPF and EIGRP. That's very frustrating when taking an exam this hard.

I'm still a fan of Todd and Sybex, but I would buy the Ciscopress book too.

People tell me that his CLSC book is the same too.