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Title: CCNP: Cisco Internetwork Troubleshooting Study Guide by Kevin Hales, Robert Padjen, Todd Lammle, Cormac S. Long, Todd Lammle ISBN: 0782125360 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: July, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99

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Average Customer Rating: 3.24

Rating: 2
Summary: Too Much Filler; "Troubleshooting Lite"
Comment: I bought this book as a companion to my Cisco Press troubleshooting book, but in the last few weeks, I found myself referring to this book less and less.

There is some good information, but if you are taking CIT as your last or next-to-last exam, a good deal of material is copied directly from the earlier Sybex books in the series. Nothing wrong with going over the material -- after all, you're learning to troubleshoot the material you've learned previously -- but I felt like a lot of this book was simply regurgitating earlier books instead of giving me fresh insight.

As I said, there were some good points. The chapter on troubleshooting methodology had some good examples, and having screen output for the commands helps those who don't have routers of their own to experiement with. Even that goes to extremes, though. At times there are pages and pages of redundant screen output when they need to be putting more solid information in.

Also, there's not much information on the actual contents of frames in different protocols. For those of us working with CCIE in mind while working on our CCNP, that's detail that shouldn't be left out. Overall, the lack of detail in this book really surprised and disappointed me.

You might very well be able to pass the exam with just this book if passing the exam is your sole goal. For those of us looking for more detail (and the exam has plenty of that!), I would recommend the Cisco Press book over this one.

Rating: 5
Summary: Received my book on Friday, so far, it is great.
Comment: This is a great book. I have read the first five chapters, and it is formatted real nice. I bought Lammle's CCNA book, and I really liked that book. This is a book of information. It has a lot of stuff that I can use at my work right away. I haven't taken the exam, but I should take it in about two weeks. I'll let you know how it goes. The review questions at the end of each chapter are pretty hard, and they cover the harder concepts found in each of the five chapters I have been through.

Rating: 1
Summary: Unacceptable absence of detail!
Comment: This book just pastes in the output of Cisco commands without any adequate explainations. Obviously the authors know less about the material than many of the readers...

Notice that all the "positive" reviews give no details as to what's good about this book. I guess Lammle and Co. are going to have to submit more "reviews" to compensate for this bit of realism...