Cisco Press Vs Sybex Which Way Forward ===> [7:13243]

[Oletu Hosea Godswill CCNP, CCNA.]

Hi group,
(Please contribute to this trend from you own experience.This is my own
experience and perception and I will accept responsibilities for been wrong
and will learn from my errors through your contribuctions)

I wrote my last CCNP exam 23rd of last month and that was BCRAN, all through
my CCNP series I used Cisco press except for BCSN ---I did not use any book
for this exam, I depend on the internet, CCO and many white papers on RIP,
RIPv2, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF and BGP.

I wrote my CCDA exam two days ago and I used Sybex cos I could not lay my
hands on Cisco press. Guess what, I saw hell in the exam hall. At the end of
the day I passed not because I have read the sybex book but because of the
residual knowledge I had gathered from my CCNP series and other things. From
then I made a decision never to read sybex. Even 20 minutes before the exam
at
the exam centre I saw cisco press book displayed on the bookstand, curiousity
made me to pick it and just flip through it, on going through it, I
discovered
that I was not yet prepared for the exam going by the standard set by Todd
lammle in his sybex book, but it was too late to cancel the exam, I had to
write it anyhow and thank God I passed.

I will be taking my CID to obtain my CCDP by the end of this month, I have
taken the extra effort to comb the whole town and have secured a Cisco press
book for that exam.

Todd Lammle would do us in the networking field a lot of good if he go and
get
his CCNP. He can't be writing CCDA, CCNP and CCIE books gear towards the exam
proper, without passing through the examination process. Good, he might be a
good writer and also might have some wealth of experience. But you would
agree
with me that, the exams are different scenerio from the day to day hands-on
job and it is a different ball game from one having experience. Many who
boast
of tons of years of experience can go in for these exams and still fail it.

Let Todd Lammle at be patience and only write books for which he is
certified,
by this he will gain more popularity. I like his books for their simpilicity
and easy of understanding, but what am against is that do not use that to
shield me from difficult and complex areas the exam would be bordered on.

Am sorry, not against Todd Lammle in any sense, I appreciate his great
contributions to us the networking folks, am only trying to suggest ways
through which he can really be of more immense surpport and help to us.

Please you are free to confirm or otherwise contradict what I have just said.

I wish you all well.

My 2 cents
Regards.




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