I know these type of questions annoy some of the more seasoned members here, and maybe we could have a FAQ at the top of every forum, how about it moderator?

Anyway being the cheap bastard that I am, I refuse to dish out any more cash on this exam, I have Sybex sim and Lammles book (which I have totally consumed ). I found out that Lammle's book doesnt cover everything (cheers LORDV for the utp wire colour tip). Does anyone have any thoughts on what Lammle does and does not cover.

Cheers

Hooligan

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Hi Hooligan,

You can miss about 10 questions and pass.

The Sybex book covers all but 2-3 questions at a level necessary to pass the exam. It's very readable with good explanations.

ICND + Odom cover all the questions at a slightly higher level than necesssary to pass the exam.

Here's some extra coverage Odom's book has in the Frame Relay section:

Frame Relay:
+ Split Horizon on Frame Relay networks
+ Global v Local DLCI addressing
+ Frame Relay broadcast handling

Thanks,
Ron

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I can't agree more with Ron

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Lammles book was all I read; but I also had the Boson tests and I was in a contract with hands -on Cisco kit, and a number of CCNPs and one CCIE. So that kinda made it easier for me.

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Cheers, thats a big help.

As much as I rate Lammle's book, he is vague enough on frame relay that its a bit tricky to understand the whole concept with his book alone, could have gone into a bit more detail about FR broadcast handling etc,etc.

Hooligan

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Try and get your hands on the cisco e_labs.
The new test format have some router configuration from them. not hard but it is good to familiarise yourself with them.

All the best

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Originally posted by Clangashe
Try and get your hands on the cisco e_labs.

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A search on google and yahoo for cisco e_labs did not turn up anything. Would you mind elaborating on what this is and how one goes about getting it, including cost if any. Thanks. I'm also a cheap-XXX; I wanna *make* money, not spend it.

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send us a private message and i'll tryy to help

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I still think that the Cisco Press ICND book was by far the better book. There was a list of errata on the sybex website for the Lammle book the last time I was interested... I do not know if they released a new edition ever since... you may want to check

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Id have to agree with you on the ICND book.I was looking at that today. I probably would recommend that over Lammle (though Lammle does a great job explaining stuff). Funny enough I got an Email at work requiring me to do 40 hours of E-learning online courses . Of which CCNA and CCNP are available with live help chat rooms, simulators etc, it goes into greater detail then Lammle does, which I think is necessary foor the exam.

Cheers

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