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Slowhand wrote: The first two books are, in essence, the same. The difference is that the official study guide is meant to be a textbook, usually for a classroom environment, while the other is written to be a self-study guide you'd buy if you were going to study on your own. Now, that doesn't mean the official study guide can't be used for self-study and the self-study guide can't be used as a textbook, it's just Cisco Press' idea of how they think the world should work. Both books cover the same topics, usually in slightly different ways, so they're not a bad complement to each other. My advice, go to a bookstore and page through each one, see which seems like a better read to you, and pick up that one.
nicklauscombs wrote: i really enjoyed reading the wendell odom books
Slowhand wrote: Personally, I liked the official study guides better than the self-study guides, but that was more a preference of how they were written. I also read Todd Lammle's book, (but I read the one for 640-801,) which was an enjoyable read. I also gave a mini-overview of what other books I looked at for the exam in this thread, which might be helpful for you.
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