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Title: Building Cisco Remote Access Networks by Catherine Paquet, Cisco Systems Inc. ISBN: 1578700914 Publisher: Cisco Press Pub. Date: August, 1999 Format: Textbook Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.26
Rating: 4
Summary: Five Stars For The Info, Three Stars For Readability
Comment: For those folks like me who were stymied looking for study material for CMTD, look no further. This book has a great deal of the info that you need to prepare for CMTD, and some chapters you should go ahead and read even if you're not preparing for BCRAN. Check your exam objectives if you're working on CMTD, and download any missing info from Cisco's website.
Catherine Paquet does a tremendous job in presenting information. The best part of the book is the case study you find at the end of most chapters. Instead of the typical multiple choice questions, you're asked to come up with solutions to customer demands for remote access. This is great practice for actually applying what you have learned, which is a must for Cisco exams.
The one problem I did have with the book -- and I considered it a major problem at times -- was the lack of flow to the book and a great number of typos. Don't get me wrong, I'm not the type to go nuts if I see a typo or two in a technical manual. However, there are parts of this book where hyphens appear and disappear from commands, and a few illustrated examples have different commands than the accompanying text, which can get pretty annoying after a while.
Again, there's a lot of great information here, and without Catherine's work, a lot of us CMTD candidates would have been up a virtual creek. Definitely worth picking up, but you might want to keep your ACRC Cisco books within arm's reach while reading this one to cross-check facts, since CMTD is basically an extension of that difficult exam.
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent Book for Prepare BCRAN and CMTD
Comment: I passed CMTD 8.0 (640-405) (scored 860, passing score = 790) just by spending 12 days reading this book(I hold a full-time job). I had not read any other books or any supplemental materials.
I also took the beta test for BCRAN (cisco called it Remote Access)on the same day. 96% of the exam items are in the book. Some of the test questions are taken almost verbatim from this book.It might as well cover the remaining 4%. I must have missed or ignored them.
Topics that are not covered in this book but tested on CMTD are as follows: 1. (objective 13) xDSL 2. (objectives: 24-26Terminal services 3. (objectives: 51) Dialup cost management (IPX/SPX spoofing,AppleTalk NBP filtering 4. (objectives: 64-67) Virtual Private Dialup Networks (VPDN) 5. (objectives: 68-72) Protocal Translation Services 6. (objectives: 77-80) Configuring NetBEUI over PPP
Please go to Cisco's web site to download the exam objectives and search for materials on these uncovered objectives to make 100% sure to pass the exam for the first time.
I rate this book 4 stars because it does not have practice tests after each chapter and does not have one or two set of simulated exams, like those in the Exam Cram Series. Should it have them, then it can be rated 5 stars. Simulated tests helps a lot and save your money to buy another or other books for practice tests.
Rating: 2
Summary: A Cisco book through and through
Comment: As a seasoned student of Cisco and it's long list of educational offerings, this book brings no real suprises. When will Cisco take it's educational books seriously? This book is better than most when it comes to simple mistakes but there are still plenty of mistakes and when you see complete paragraphs duplicated on the same page you know it hasen't been proof read.
There is not the detail that Cisco books normally provide. Some sections go straight to the configuration without any real explanation of what is going on. Screen dumps lack the content to allow you to clearly see the full configuration. There is a real lack of clarity, probably the worst of the books I've read so far, and I've read a few. But, I've come to know that if you learn all that is in the book you will pass the exam. That is the only good comment I can make about this 'standard' Cisco offering.
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