Need advice for ISCW

MACattack

Hi, I need help. Anyone knows what is the best books for ISCW, LABS, What do I need to start.

I have a couples of routers and switches. 3 - 2600 series, 1- 2500 series 2- 1720 , 3-801
3560 switches and 2950 IE and 2910. ADSL Cisco Router as I used at home.
Any link for labs.... this will help me a lot

Thanks..

kryolla

There is only 1 book for ISCW which is the exam guide. There is also a lab guide, videos, and cisco doc

Slowhand

Aside from the study guide and the corresponding lab manual, you can only really look at the exam blueprint to figure out what topics are covered. Something like MPLS Fundamentals should be enough of an extra-read for the MPLS topics. (MPLS and VPN Architectures and the following Volume II are both excellent, but may be overkill for this exam.) For general security topics, there are two books I keep getting told are excellent: Network Security Technologies and Solutions and Cisco Router Firewall Security. I haven't read either just yet, so I can't comment on how good they actually are. There's also some VPN topics, and Cisco's got plenty in their security-series, like The Complete Cisco VPN Configuration Guide .

And that's just the tip of the iceberg. There's plenty of material out there on all the topics covered in this exam, (especially by Cisco, they love those super-thick books). Start with the cert-guide and the lab manual, then figure out if you want to pick up additional reading for areas you'd like to learn more about or feel like you need some extra help on. I'm currently pondering if I should start down the road to BSCI, and I'm keeping myself busy with some related reading while I decide.

miller811

I was able to complete the labs using GNS3 which worked well with SDM. The material is SDM heavy, so make sure you are familar with SDM.