At 10:03 PM 4/1/02, Robert Padjen wrote: >Top Down is a great book for DCN, but it's not really >for the CID. I'll go out on a limb and suggest mine ( >;) ). Sybex CID Study Guide.
I'm sure you'll get flamed for advertising your own book, but I'm going to give you a hard time also for lack of accuracy. ;-) Top-Down Network Design is not a certification book, but it is based on the work I did on both the Designing Cisco Networks (DCN) and the Cisco Internetwork Design (CID) training classes when I worked for Cisco. I have heard that Cisco has made CID match my Top-Down Network Design book even more closely than before. I know for a fact that the description of the CID course is taken from my Top-Down Network Design book. I did a double-take when I read the following text from the description of the CID class here: http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/front.x/wwtraining/CELC/index.cgi?action=CourseDesc&COURSE_ID=321 "Good internetwork design recognizes a customer's requirements embody many business and technical goals, including requirements for availability, scalability, affordability, security, and manageability. Difficult internetwork design choices and tradeoffs must be made when designing the internetwork before any physical devices or media are selected. CID covers typical internetwork design business and technical goals and constraints. CID details the top-down design process and the importance of using systematic methods for internetwork design. Using systematic methods helps you, the internetwork designer, to keep pace with changing technologies and customer requirements." I said to myself, "Hey I wrote that. Oh yeah, I should have had a lawyer look at my book contract. Cisco can use anything I wrote in the book. Bummer..... or maybe not??" ;-] Priscilla >To save a buck, if you >feel comfortable with the material, you may want to >forgo the big book and use the Exam Notes (used books >are out there too). The new test might focus on >multicast more than the books reflect, and they may >have less StrataCom and ATM, but its close enough. >640-025 (the exam the book was written to) is still >the current version. > >Good luck. > > >--- Andy Barkl wrote: > > The book is not that great. It has many errors and > > omissions. > > I recommend the Cisco Press Top-Down Network Design > > book for the new CID > > exam. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > > STRAND Scott > > Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 12:32 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: CID Exam Cert Book [7:39669] > > > > Has anyone who has taken the CID exam used the Cisco > > CID Exam > > Certification > > Guide. (Michael Crane, Reggie Terell). I was wanting > > to > > get some opinions on this book, especially the > > practice test on the CD. > > I > > intend to use BOSON as well. > > > > Thanks, > > Scott > > CCNP, CCDA > > > > [GroupStudy.com removed an attachment of type > > application/x-pkcs7-signature > > which had a name of smime.p7s] >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >===== >Robert Padjen > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax >http://http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ________________________ Priscilla Oppenheimer http://www.priscilla.com Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=40150&t=39669 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
