Practice for the CCNP BSCI exam with hands-on, networking lab scenarios</>

• Ramp up your routing know-how with more than 40 practical lab scenarios

• Reinforce your CCNP exam preparation with step-by-step, hands-on router configuration

• Get up to speed with advanced OSPF and IS-IS configuration, summarization, and redistribution

• Gain proficiency in an advanced BGP environment with synchronization, communities and peer groups, and static and policy-based routing

• Perfect your EIGRP configuration and summarization skills

• Apply proficiency gained throughout the book with RIP to OSPF migration

• Use VLSMs to extend the use of IP addresses

• Test routing connectivity using accepted troubleshooting techniques

• Take your preparation to the next level with a bonus CCIE lab, written by a prominent member of the CCIE team at Cisco Systems

Indispensable as both a router configuration guide and a preparation tool for the CCNP BSCI exam, CCNP Practical Studies: Routing will prepare you for the exam and give you the hands-on experience to apply your knowledge on the job. CCNP Practical Studies: Routing provides you with routing and configuration information from IP basics to advanced routing concepts and protocols, such as BGP and IS-IS, which is the newest addition to the BSCI exam. Each chapter focuses on a specific routing technology or protocol with a battery of scenarios and practical exercises that you can either configure using your home, work, or remote-access lab equipment or follow along by reviewing the book's example tasks. The five lab scenarios in each chapter serve to challenge your understanding of the chapter topics and measure your aptitude as a CCNP candidate, while providing concrete examples of the challenges faced in real-world configuration.

CCNP Practical Studies: Routing provides you with practical information on all of the important concepts central to the CCNP Routing exam, including basic and advanced BGP and OSPF, EIGRP, route reflectors, IP routing principles, and IS-IS. Begin with basic lab scenarios that cover displaying and analyzing IP routing tables and using show and debug commands. Then graduate to more advanced lab scenarios, such as routing between a classful and a classless network; configuring VLSM; and working with multihomed BGP and connections to ISPs. Lab scenarios at the end of the book take you step-by-step through route optimization and redistribution. This book also contains a bonus CCIE®-level lab, which takes you beyond the professional level labs and onto the next step in becoming a hands-on routing expert.

Whether you are seeking practical knowledge to enhance your preparation for the CCNP BSCI exam or you are a newly minted CCNP looking for hands-on experience to hone your on-the-job skills, CCNP Practical Studies: Routing has what you need to take your practical routing skills to the next level.

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Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 18 Ratings

Learn Troubleshooting from the Errors in this Book! - 2005-06-18
Reviewer Rating:
Hi

This book contains many mistakes but does fill a gap for those wanting to prepare for the CCNP with hands-on experience.

I actually learned a lot from the mistakes in this book. But when you're studying on your own and trying to build your confidence on routing it is really disconcerting to not be able to reach the same results as the book. It's only with lots more reading (a good thing!) that you discover the screen output in the book isn't accurate!

I think with the Errata in hand (or preferably a reprinted edition) this is still a book worth having but 4/5 star reviewers must not have followed the exercises on real equipment!

Jc

Useless book! - 2004-08-25
Reviewer Rating:
I purchased this book hopeful to put my recently acquired $12,000 CCIE-level lab to work wrapping up my CCNP before moving on to my CCIE.

Boy, was I disappointed. This book is riddled with errors and omissions. You will spend more time trying to read between the lines and troubleshoot than you will actually learning the material.

Case in point: the advanced OSPF scenario sets you up with 8 different routers. After cabling them in, I started configuring them -- only to find that the instructions conflicted with each other (are the loopbacks supposed to be advertised as /32, or /24?), or were missing alltogether, forcing me go to the end of the lesson to pull the WAN IP addresses for each router from the resulting configs themselves!

There is a reason this book isn't sold on cisco.com anymore. B

Good, but lots of errors in the answers! - 2005-08-14
Reviewer Rating:
This book has alot of good exercises which illustrate useful and valuable concepts and their implementation.

However, there are many, many inconsistancies between the config files, the output from show commands, and the figures. A typical example is Figure 5-5 on page 236. R4 in the figure has two serial connections but the interface addresses are not shown on the figure. In the config file for R4 on page 244, only one serial interface has been configured. In some labs, the output from sample show commands includes intefaces or networks not configured in the figures or config files.

I don't think I have worked through any lab in this book involving more than two routers which does not have this type of error. I think that the author has done a good job choosing which concepts to illustrate and then coming up with some labs to illustrate them. Too bad that no one got the labs actually fully configured and working before taking the screen captures. The result is that many labs take about twice as long to complete as they should since you must figure out what are the mistakes and missing information to complete them.

Don't believe the other reviewers - 2005-03-21
Reviewer Rating:
if you know what your doing and have the experince to self teach yourself aided by an expert this book will help you nail the routing of IP on Cisco routers plu show you an example ccie lab, what else could you want a book loaded with examples and great ideas, its a good book.

Good, but full of errors - 2007-02-04
Reviewer Rating:
Whilst the author has gone to great lengths to show various routing theories & their implementation, the number of errors is large. On just about every page there are simple spelling mistakes and missing information for the router configs.
If you have the patience to work through the mistakes, it is a worthy reference.

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