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Cisco CCNA Routing and Switching ICND2 200-101 Official Cert Guide, Academic Edition

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CCNA ICND2 200-101 Official Cert Guide, Academic Edition, is a comprehensive textbook and study package for an intermediate-level networking course. This book has been completely revised to align to Cisco's new CCNA 200-101 ICND2 exam. Material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing student's retention and recall of exam topics. The book is printed in four color, allowing students to benefit from carefully crafted figures that utilize color to convey concepts. Students will organize their study through the use of the consistent features in these chapters, including:
Foundation Topics These sections make up the majority of the page count, explaining concepts, configurations, with emphasis on the theory and concepts, and with linking the theory to the meaning of the configuration commands.
Key Topics Inside the Foundation Topics sections, every figure, table, or list that should absolutely be understood and remembered for the exam is noted with the words Key Topic in the margin. This tool allows the reader to quickly review the most important details in each chapter.
Chapter-ending Summaries These bulleted lists provide a quick and concise review of the key topics covered in each chapter.
Chapter-ending Review Questions Each chapter provides a set of multiple choice questions that help student s test their knowledge of the chapter concepts, including answers and full explanations.
Chapter-ending Exercises Each chapter concludes with a series of exercises designed to help students increase their retention of the chapter content including key term reviews, key topic tables, command review exercises, and memory table exercises.
Part Reviews This new edition includes a new part review feature that helps students consolidate their knowledge of concepts presented across multiple chapters. A new mind mapping exercise helps students build strong mental maps of concepts. A new exam bank of part review questions helps students test themselves with scenario-based questions that span multiple topics. In addition to these powerful chapter learning, review, and practice features, this book also contains several other features that make it a truly effective and comprehensive study package, including:
A Getting Started chapter at the beginning of the book offer terrific advice for how to use the book features and build an effective study plan.
The DVD contains over 60 minutes of video mentoring from the author on challenging topics such as OSPF, EIGRP, EIGRP Metrics, PPP, and CHAP.
The book comes complete with the CCNA ICND2 Network Simulator Lite software, providing students with the opportunity to practice their hands-on command line interface skills with Cisco routers and switches. The 13 labs included for free with this product cover a range of EIGRP configuration and troubleshooting exercises.
The Pearson IT Certification Practice Test software that comes with the book includes 4 full ICND2 exams and 4 full CCNA exams, providing tons of opportunities to assess and practice. Including the book review questions and part review questions, the exam bank includes more than 500 unique practice questions.
A Final Preparation Chapter helps students review for final exams and prepare to take the official Cisco CCNA exams, if they want to achieve that certification.
A Study Plan Template is included on the DVD to help students organize their study time.
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704 pages, Hardcover

First published April 3, 2013

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September 9, 2021
Other than issues with padding -two entire chapters are copied from the previous book, instead of giving a summary- its the same quality as the first book in this two part series. Direct, comprehensive and dry. No forced jokes or obsessive interest in making learning CCNA hip and cool. I personally liked the dryness, especially for IT guides, but for those looking for something written in a more approachable, plain language style I'd suggest Todd Lammle's two part CCNA books. For those with little IT experience, especially novices to networking, I highly recommend clawing your eyes out and eating a liter of glass as an alternative to attempting to tackle this book in less than a month. Its a great guide, its just that the subject matter is not novice material.
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August 19, 2016
Sort of 2.5 stars? I appreciate having the testing engine with it, but I found the topics felt skimmed over, and I fear this isn't just a feeling on my side. RSTP is covered in an appendix only, VRRP gets a passing mention... I found the ICND1 book much more useful by comparison, in that it taught me much, much more (I started from basically nothing, except knowing what ipconfig /all was).

I advise completing this one with other materials and with blank exams (like VCE ones).
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March 12, 2018
It's comprehensive, but it's a chore to read. The Exam Cram book for ICND1 was a more useful resource for me.
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