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In-depth study and exercises for the CCIE Routing and Switching
Lab Exam, CCIE Practical Studies, Volume I focuses on the
1-day lab portion of the exam, largely regarded as the most
difficult portion of the CCIE testing process. This book includes
in-depth coverage for more than 37 lab scenarios, as well as
information on how to design and implement basic to complex
networks. Five CCIE simulation labs will test your knowledge and
ability to perform in a timed environment.
Editorial ReviewsProduct DescriptionHands-on preparation for the CCIE Lab Exams - Prepare yourself for the CCIE exam through five complex lab scenario exercises designed to simulate what you will encounter on the CCIE Lab Exam
- Magnify your network configuration abilities with over 40 lab exercises on LAN and WAN protocols and technologies
- Increase your CCIE preparation abilities through creating a simulated internetwork for hands-on practice
- Hone your Catalyst® switch configuration skills through practice with VLANs, VTP and trunking protocols, and Spanning-Tree Protocol
- Enhance your WAN skills through configuration of HDLC, PPP, Frame Relay, Voice over IP, Voice over Frame Relay, Voice over ATM, ISDN, and ATM
- Gain valuable insight and configuration skills on the primary interior routing protocols-RIP, IGRP, OSPF, and EIGRP
- Perfect your Transparent Bridging, Integrated Routing and Bridging, Source Route Bridging, Remote Source Route Bridging, and DLSw+ configuration skills
- Build your security knowledge with information and lab practice on configuring and applying standard, extended, named, and dynamic IP access lists
CCIE certification is the most difficult and most rewarding of the Cisco® certifications. Although the professional and financial benefits of a CCIE are excellent, attaining this level of certification takes years of experience, study, and effort. Serving a dual role of networking reference guide for configuring Cisco routers and preparation tool for the CCIE Lab Exams, CCIE Practical Studies, Volume I, is an ideal resource to help you achieve and earn the coveted CCIE designation. CCIE Practical Studies, Volume I, provides you with the knowledge to assemble and configure all the necessary hardware and software components required to model complex, Cisco internetworks based on the OSI reference model-from Layer 1 on up. Each chapter focuses on one or more specific technologies or protocols and follows up with a battery of CCIE exam-like labs for you to configure that challenges your understanding of the chapter topics and measures your aptitude as a CCIE candidate. The final chapter of the book provides five CCIE "Simulation Labs." These labs not only test your knowledge but your speed as well-a crucial aspect of the new one-day format of the CCIE exam. Among the many resources you will need to study for the CCIE exam, you will find CCIE Practical Studies, Volume I, to be an indispensable preparation tool. This book is part of the Cisco Press Practical Studies Series, which offers readers a means to apply the theoretical knowledge they have accumulated from other sources through hands-on lab scenarios for key networking technologies. This unique approach enables readers to practice and hone their internetworking skills while preparing for Cisco certification exams. 158720002307312003 | Amazon.com ReviewPreparing for the practical portion of the Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) examination, in which you have to configure and troubleshoot networks on Cisco equipment in a testing lab, can be scary. There's simply so much the test proctor can throw at you, and you have to be prepared for it all. CCIE Practical Studies, Volume I does a fantastic job of preparing you for much of what you can expect to see on the first day of your CCIE lab exam (when you build a system to specifications). Karl Solie, a CCIE himself, first approaches each subject on the CCIE syllabus with a quick academic overview ("Here's what frame relay is for," for instance, "and here's how Cisco equipment thinks of it"). That gives way to a series of examples ("Here's a typical set of customer requirements, and here are the IOS commands and configuration files that satisfy them"). Finally, a series of subject-specific lab exercises (which are shorter than a typical day-long CCIE assignment) drill you on the Cisco skills related to the technology at hand. Solie explains how he'd solve the lab--in wonderful detail--immediately after the pages that describe these small lab tasks. At the end of the book, you'll find five full-scale CCIE labs, very similar to the ones you'll have to complete in 8.5 hours on test day. There are instructions on how to prestage your equipment (as the exam proctor would normally do), and what you need to accomplish. You can time yourself on these labs and get a very good idea of your preparedness. Solie could make the next edition of this book better by devoting even more discussion to the troubleshooting techniques appropriate to different kinds of systems. Problems inevitably crop up in CCIE configurations, and there's rarely time to start over in the lab. Regardless, provided you have the equipment and discipline required to work through his exercises independently, this book is a better deal than almost any commercial training course. --David Wall Topics covered: Some of the subjects you should be prepared to exhibit practical knowledge of when you go in for the CCIE practical exam, including the main WAN protocols (frame relay, PPP, ISDN, and ATM); routing protocols (RIP-1, RIP-2, IGRP, EIGRP, and OSPF); bridging; Data Link Switching Plus (DLSw+); access lists; network address translation (NAT); Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP); and time protocols. Other CCIE subjects, including IPX, BGP, and IPSec, are to be covered in the second volume of this book. |
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Reader Reviews From Amazon (Ranked by 'Helpfulness') Average Customer Rating: based on 25 reviews. A great resource - but use with MUCH caution!, 2006-02-03 Reviewer rating: CiscoPress's "CCIE Practical Studies - Volume 1" by Solie is a difficult book to assess. On one hand, the book does an excellent job at covering half of the topics that you will see on the CCIE lab at the time of the book's printing. On the other hand, the book is riddled with errors. Every page, almost every config needs to be examined, reexamined and then, perhaps, discussed on GroupStudy to verify. It is hard to trust such a book but at the same time impossible to ignore.
Some of the typos/editorial mistakes are:
* Page 344 - For Cisco LMI " LMI status information is sent on DLCI 0." Not true - Cisco LMI is sent on 1023. And then the opposite with ANSI LMI right below Cisco LMI.
* Page 518 - 2nd paragraph - "...snapshot routing can be used only with link-state protocols..." Not true - snapshot routing is used only with distance-vector protocols (like RIP).
* Page 705 - 1st line - "For autosummarization to work properly, discontinuous subnets..." I believe the proper term is discontiguous.
* Page 776 - When discussing what must match for an OSPF neighbor relationship to form, the book is missing that the stub area flag and MTU must also match.
* Between 937 & 939 - completely ignore how they document NetBios and SNAP SAPs. This error is repeated throughout the book but can be verified on Cisco's website.
And so on... But have written this, I will be surprised if many CCIE candidates don't have this book on their shelf. Chapter 2, on LAN protocols is very good (and not document elsewhere). Also, the chapter on ISDN is both of use in the lab and a good tool to use in the real world.
I give this book 3 pings out of 5:
!!..! | A must read for CCIE lab candidates, 2005-10-15 Reviewer rating: This book is a very good source of information for setting up practice internet works for the CCIE hands on lab. I went into it as a possible study source for the written portion of the exam. I was able to glean some useful information from it but nothing I couldn't find in other books. It will definitely come in handy when I start setting up test equipment for the lab.
The material is presented in a very understandable format. I especially liked the fact that the practice labs were grouped by technology. Starting with the basics, in chapter one, it builds up steam as it progresses through the different technologies. Each chapter provides a background and a lot of helpful information on how to accomplish the lab scenario. There are also pertinent troubleshooting commands when things just don't go the way they should. After each lab scenario the author provides a walkthrough of how to accomplish the lab.
All this reading, lab setups and practice labs culminate in chapter 18. Chapter 18 is a series of labs that a CCIE candidate might face in the actual live CCIE lab. Each of the 5 labs goes over an equipment list, a pre-staging section then followed by the rules and the timed section. Answers are not provided for these labs but a link to a CiscoPress website is provided for you to check your work.
I compared these labs with other lab workbooks on the internet and found that there is not much difference between the lab scenarios. Whereas the workbooks have close to 30 labs they can cost up to several hundred dollars. The labs to be found in CCIE Practical Studies Vols I & II will cost you much less and most likely get you to the same level of competence to attempt the live CCIE lab.
While some of the material is dated, in reference to the current lab exam, it still is a helpful reference guide. Hopefully it will be updated to bring it more inline with the current exam and emerging technology, like the upcoming Routing TCP/IP book
| An absolute Star outstanding, 2004-01-20 Reviewer rating: This is an outstanding book. In fact the part 2 is also a winner. The examples and the explanations are outstanding. This book and together with the part 2 is an art by itself . I think some of the materials are from Cisco website but yet the explanations are very down to earth and well written. I consider Jeff and Karl to be my Gurus and hope I will meet them some day. | OK book, but very lacking in detail..., 2003-12-05 Reviewer rating: I got my CCIE a few years ago, so when asked I reviewed this book at the request of co-workers for content and validity. I was not impressed, as there are too many errors and verbose language. The book is OK to use as a rough guide, but I suggest if you buy this book you better also look at buying a few other books to fill in all the gaps. I think this book can assist in Lab Preparation, but you will need so much more... | "One of the books you will need", 2003-09-05 Reviewer rating: Solie's book is a standard for CCIE prep. Like all technical books, this one is not perfect either, but they do publish corrections and do provide configuration solutions on ciscopress.com. Good practical information as well as some challenging labs. http://www.cciesecrets.net/ for more info on CCIE studies. |
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