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Title: CID: Cisco Internetwork Design by Thomas M., II Thomas, Doris E. Pavlichek, Thomas M. II Thomas ISBN: 0-07-212653-1 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: some thoughts
Comment: Hi,
I don't agree with some of the reviewers who give this book a low rating. It seems that there are still people that believe reading a book is enough to pass a Cisco test, well it isn't.
Learning Cisco is learning technologies and protocols and how to implement them on Cisco equipment. There are a lot of protocols that evolve daily; what you learn today can be obsolete after a year. I am now 17 years in the IT business, and it still feels like a first day at school, so much to learn, so many new things that are coming to you.
I have passed 16 Cisco exams, and hope to pass the big one (CCIE) this year. I have some friends that are CCIE and friend number one says: learn OSPF because I had a lot of OSPF in my lab. But according to friend number two, I should learn very well EIGRP, because he had a lot of EIGRP configuration in his lab. Conclusion: there is no such thing as brain dumps for Cisco, there are to many subjects. You just have to learn everything.
Coming back to the book from Tom Thomas, it doesn't say: I shall teach you ISDN, ATM, SNA, NETBIOS, Frame-Relay etc. This book is about designing networks, and what is the best approach (according to Cisco) to do this. If you look at it that way (and you should) than this book is the best preparation for your CID exam. I think Tom has read the book from Caslow very well because I can see that this book is build in the same way.
If you have done your CCDA exam, and want to pass the CID exam, it is better to do first the technical exams, and have some hands on experience. Then it will be easier to pass the CID exam. Also this book is then easier to read.
I bought the book, read it in two days, and passed the exam easily.
A last tip for all you people that wants to learn Cisco: download the configuration guides from the Cisco web site. They are very good, and NO they are not that easy to read if you are new to networking, but if you have experience then they are the best, and free!!
Rating: 2
Summary: For novices
Comment: A lot of pages wasted on some basic CCNA type of stuff. CCDP is intermediate level and requires deeper knowledge of the subject. It is not enough to pass the real test. Unfortunately there are no other books out there to use accept for Cisco Press, which has a lot of mistakes.
Author spends a lot of time talking about the same things, very boring and useless discussions. Feels like politician is trying to teach computer science. You would need more info to pass. Good luck.
Rating: 2
Summary: Huh?
Comment: So, my first question is, why don't the authors ever explain what the CID is, and what the CCDP (Cisco Certified Professional Designer) certification is?
This isn't such a bad book, it's just not really right for McGraw-Hill to sell it as an exam prep text.
I quite liked it as a general overview to the principles of internet design, but the authors would have been better served with a better publisher. The fact that this 800 page book is as fat as some books twice the page count irks me no end (think of the trees!), as does the gratuitous CD ROM (as near as I can tell, it just has the same "review" questions as are included at the end of each chapter).
Well-worth reading if you can borrow this one from a library or a friend, but if you have to shell out 60 skins you may not be thrilled with the value.
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Title: Internetworking Technologies Handbook, Fourth Edition by Cisco Systems, ILSG Cisco Systems ISBN: 1587051192 Publisher: Cisco Press Pub. Date: 15 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: Network Design and Case Studies (CCIE Fundamentals) (2nd Edition) by Cisco Systems Inc., Tom Thomas, Atif Khan ISBN: 1578701678 Publisher: Cisco Press Pub. Date: 19 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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