BCMSN Books?

mzinz

I know this has been asked a MILLION times already, but most of the posts I saw were fairly outdated, along with the stickies.

I already ordered the CiscoPress book - are there any other good ones out there?

networker050184

Which Cisco Press book did you get? The study guide is more geared towards learning all the material and the exam cert guide is more geared strictly towards passing the exam. I'd suggest the study guide if you don't have much knowledge of the technologies.

Besides Cisco Press, I don't think there are any quality resources as far as books. You should check out the CBT Nuggets if you haven't already. The quick reference sheets are also a good review and are cheap to download from Cisco Press.

Good luck on the studies!

BennyLava

The cert guide for BCMSN is good. If you're looking for other options, you might want to also check out "LAN Switch Security: What Hackers Know About Your Switches":

Amazon.com: LAN Switch Security: What Hackers Know About Your Switches (Networking Technology: Security): Eric Vyncke, Christopher Paggen: Books

I just started reading this, and it is pretty good so far. It covers a lot of the security topics that are on the BCMSN exam (BPDU guard, Root guard, DHCP snooping, etc.)