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book: CID: Cisco Internetwork Design | Thomas M., II Thomas, Doris E. Pavlichek

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	• CID: Cisco Internetwork Design Thomas M., II Thomas, Doris E. Pavlichek McGraw-Hill Companies, 2001 - 816 pages average customer review:based on 9 reviews view larger image
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Hi,

I don't agree with some of the reviewers who give this book a low rating. It seems that there are still people that believe reading a book is enough to pass a Cisco test, well it isn't.

Learning Cisco is learning technologies and protocols and how to implement them on Cisco equipment. There are a lot of protocols that evolve daily; what you learn today can be obsolete after a year. I am now 17 years in the IT business, and it still feels like a first day at school, so much to learn, so many new things that are coming to you.

I have passed 16 Cisco exams, and hope to pass the big one (CCIE) this year. I have some friends that are CCIE and friend number one says: learn OSPF because I had a lot of OSPF in my lab. But according to friend number two, I should learn very well EIGRP, because he had a lot of EIGRP configuration in his lab. Conclusion: there is no such thing as brain dumps for Cisco, there are to many subjects. You just have to learn everything.

Coming back to the book from Tom Thomas, it doesn't say: I shall teach you ISDN, ATM, SNA, NETBIOS, Frame-Relay etc. This book is about designing networks, and what is the best approach (according to Cisco) to do this. If you look at it that way (and you should) than this book is the best preparation for your CID exam. I think Tom has read the book from Caslow very well because I can see that this book is build in the same way.

If you have done your CCDA exam, and want to pass the CID exam, it is better to do first the technical exams, and have some hands on experience. Then it will be easier to pass the CID exam. Also this book is then easier to read.

I bought the book, read it in two days, and passed the exam easily.

A last tip for all you people that wants to learn Cisco: download the configuration guides from the Cisco web site. They are very good, and NO they are not that easy to read if you are new to networking, but if you have experience then they are the best, and free!!

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A good book to start with

If you plan to buy this book to prepare for the CID 3.0 test, it contains the essential information and covers well the exam topics. It is carefully written and it easy to read. However, just reading this book is not enough to pass, not because of the book, but the way the answers to the real exam questions are formulated. You need a lot of experience and thorough understanding of the technologies involved.

Briefly, the book is very good for organizing, refreshing, and completing the knowledge you already have, but I won't keep it for reference.

Get complete coverage of the newly revised CID portion of the CCDP certification exam! You'll learn how to design reliable and scalable internetworks, understand campus LAN technology, master OSPF network design, and much more with help from this comprehensive guide. And, the CD-ROM includes an adaptive testing engine with over 200 multiple-choice practice questions and detailed score analysis. Ideal for both exam prep and as a desktop reference, this is the most thorough book on internetwork design available.

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