Building Cisco Remote Access Networks
Good book but bad typos - definitely the one for the exam ! - I didn t take the Cisco course - I just used this book with some experience with the equipment and passed the exam first time with 887. Despite what you might have heard elsewhere, take it from me that this is a difficult exam. It covers a large range of subjects - the book covers all these subjects, however, to echo some of the other reviews here, the book is badly let down by typos and some of the configs are downright wrong ! A few of the chapters also don t go into enough detail, for example, the section on compression and queuing. The book should also cover the router models in greater depth since the exam stresses this point. Nevertheless, this is definitely the book to buy if you want to sit the exam. If you have been on the course, don t bother buying since the content is almost exactly the same as the course notes. Good luck.
Very good book - let down by typos and oversights. - I ve read this book and used it as a reference. The book is well structured and contains all the answers to the exam I took. However, I feel it is let down by some typos, and more explanation would have been welcome in places. Overall, I would recommend this book.
Not a very good book overall, but it ll still do the job - I have read two other Cisco Press books previously and they have been very good. This book however is not very good. There are a lot of typos in it and certain things are not explained very well. It seems as if the book has been written without any real life hands-on experience of the topics being taught.
Very well structured - This book is well structured and concise. Although it doesn t have proper lab exercises, the case studies are definitely worth reading. I quite enjoyed reading this booking myself and when I took the exam I understood most of the questions. It is important that you understand DDR (and the commands), AAA, NAT, PPP, Sync, Async & ISDN interfaces & concepts, X.25 & Frame Relay, Modem configuration commands.Overall summary, it is definitely the right book to invest not just to pass the exam but also as a reference guide. Cisco Press should be the only books that is required to pass any of the Cisco exams.
Good book, but confusing in places - As with also Cisco Press books, well laid out and worth the money if you want to take the exam. However, unsuaully for Cisco books this one contains a few irritatnig typographical errors and a couple of the chapters (Notably the Cisco 700 ones, which don t actually come up in the exam anyway) are rather confusing.