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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.6
EAN: 9781587132087
ISBN: 1587132087
Label: Cisco Press
Manufacturer: Cisco Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 560
Publication Date: November 08, 2007
Publisher: Cisco Press
Studio: Cisco Press
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Network Fundamentals, CCNA Exploration Companion Guide is the official supplemental textbook for the Network Fundamentals course in the Cisco® Networking Academy® CCNA® Exploration curriculum version 4. The course, the first of four in the new curriculum, is based on a top-down approach to networking. The Companion Guide, written and edited by Networking Academy instructors, is designed as a portable desk reference to use anytime, anywhere. The book’s features reinforce the material in the course to help you focus on important concepts and organize your study time for exams.
New and improved features help you study and succeed in this course:
- Chapter objectives—Review core concepts by answering the focus questions listed at the beginning of each chapter.
- Key terms—Refer to the updated lists of networking vocabulary introduced and highlighted in context in each chapter.
- Glossary—Consult the comprehensive glossary with more than 250 terms.
- Check Your Understanding questions and answer key—Evaluate your readiness with the updated end-of-chapter questions that match the style of questions you see on the online course quizzes. The answer key explains each answer.
- Challenge questions and activities—Strive to ace more challenging review questions and activities designed to prepare you for the complex styles of questions you might see on the CCNA exam. The answer key explains each answer.
How To—Look for this icon to study the steps you need to learn to perform certain tasks.
Packet Tracer Activities— Explore networking concepts in activities interspersed throughout some chapters using
Packet Tracer v4.1 developed by Cisco. The files for these activities are on the accompanying CD-ROM.
Also available for the Network Fundamentals Course
Network Fundamentals, CCNA Exploration Labs and Study Guide
ISBN-10: 1-58713-203-6
ISBN-13: 978-1-58713-203-2
Companion CD-ROM
The CD-ROM provides many useful tools and information to support your education:
- Packet Tracer Activity exercise files v4.1
- VLSM Subnetting Chart
- Structured Cabling Exploration Supplement
- Taking Notes: a .txt file of the chapter objectives
- A Guide to Using a Networker’s Journal booklet
- IT Career Information
- Tips on Lifelong Learning in Networking
This book is part of the Cisco Networking Academy Series from Cisco Press®. The products in this series support and complement the Cisco Networking Academy online curriculum.
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Book was delivered quickly and was exactly as described! It looked just like a brand new book that i would purchase at a book store! i would definately do business with this seller again!
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A very nice book which builds concepts from scratch. Helped me alot in developing my interest in networks. shipped in good packing.
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Who ever says this book is good, it is not true. Because all the people in my class hate this book. I'm a straight-A college student, and this book is just terrible. I can't undestand almost nothing. The author tried to explain things, but he ends up explaining nothing. It's hard to undestand anything, especially when you get to chapter 3 (layers). The info is all over the place. I feel like I'm doing research instead of studying a subject. Never in my life had to Google so many stuff from a book. For example, you go and read one or two paragraphs, and after you are done, you're left in blank-- with bunch of questions and stuff that is not explained. Then later on the text you find little explanation about previous paragraphs (which make you go back and start all over). The little explanation you find two or three paragraphs latter comes scattered all over the place, but now with different wording which totally losses you, and the rest of the needed explanation comes NEVER! Half of my class are totally lost becuase of this useless book. Some kids drop off class... and I'm next. The most amazing thing is that I'm an IT person--I'm tech savvy. I've worked in the tech and IT field for like 8 years. So, If i can't get it, imagine the newbies. I'm sooo fustrated with the whole thing that i may drop this class and take a regular networking classes at my university.
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This is pretty useful text for people (like me) who previously to reading this book had little knowledge of nuts and bolts of networking.
It covers plenty of ground, however I felt that some actual questions from cisco academy were not answered in the text. I almost didn't use the online course materials, so I don't know if they would compensate that gap. But most of the things required on tests were covered.
Anyways, I took a class to get more acquainted with networking fundamentals. With the nuts and bolts of communication and protocols and processes involved, and I think this book served that purpose pretty well. I hope however that it was colorful. Other than that, I am novice to networking [not the computer science in general] and I can tell that this book is pretty good if you're new to networking, like me.
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Just finished this course at the local community college. This book has 'necessary redunancies' which helps review key networking concepts throughout the book. I have the third edition (2008)and have quite a few issues with mistakes and typo's. One example chart on subnetting holds many errors. Some of the people in my class are first-timers with no background in networking. They're beginning a new career in networking and they're relying on Cisco engineers and publishers to submit accruate information but it doesn't help when the material you're studying is replete with errors. The technical writers and proof readers needed to pay more attention to the material.
Otherwise, like I said, this is a good book on the whole. Personally, reviewing networking concepts over and over, as this book presents, is a great way for me to learn, especially when it comes to subnetting and subnetting a subnet.
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