Book recommendations...

I am currently running through the CCNA course from Knowledge Net. They seem to be very good courses especially if you already have a background in networking. While these courses are helping I think it would help more if I had actual hardcopy books to study also. I was hoping that someone could recommend some good books for studying for the CCNA. Thanks.

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EdTheLad

Books for CCNA?? No idea, do books for CCNA even exist??
Hrmm must search the forum for more information..........
Dont remember ever seeing a topic about what books to use

dead_p00l

True enough I didnt bother to search but i have seen many threads where one person prefers one book, the next person a different books and so on. I was wondering if there was any real consensus on which books better prepare you for the exams. I will use the search function this time but if anyone has an recommendations they would be appreciated. Thanks.

EdTheLad

dead_p00l wrote:

True enough I didnt bother to search but i have seen many threads where one person prefers one book, the next person a different books and so on..

The question has been asked so many times and as you have already pointed out different people have different ideas about which books are best.So i dont see why you expect to see anything different this time.
Rough breakdown
65% Cisco press
30% Sybex
5% other

And most like a combination..........

dead_p00l

Good enough. I guess i was looking for a majority vote. Thanks.

wildfire

How about we open a poll on the subject!!

Personally I dont know what its like now, but I found both Sybex and Ciscopress good books, Sybex was easier to follow but had missing info.
Ciscopress the Do I already know this sections are a good gauge of your knowledge but the book is harder to digest.

When I got to CCNP exams, I read one Sybex didnt like it and havent bothered with them since, its all about what good for you.

The knowledge net series are a very good seires, but it expects you to know your material, what I normally do is read the book, then do the knowledge net, then go back over the book using the Do i know this aready.

If its a case of I can only afford one book, Id be tempted to go with the Ciscopress. but thats only a personal opinion!.

and of course the best recsouce of all

www.cisco.com

people dont realise often that this is your BEST souce of info, look at the exam topics, then do a search and read up on the whitepapers.

dead_p00l

Thanks for the advice. So far the knowledge net has been great but I really want to supplement that with some other materials(other than staring at a monitor). I think a poll on this would probably be a good idea if someone wanted to set one up. Might help limit these types of questions if there were a book poll sticky'd on the main page. Thanks again for the help.