Whats is the best resource available to read/learn about CCent

red3784

I was looking at CCent for dumbies by Glenn Clarke.

ds32118

I would recommend Wendell Odom's Official Cert Guide and also Todd Lammle's book as well. Odom's book is a lot drier than Lammle's, but I thought it contained more information. Lammle's book had a lot of sample configurations for the entire topic he was talking about whereas Odom's did not.

I read Odom's book1 st and supplemented it with Lammle's on some key topics such as switching, IP routing, etc.

DoubleNNs

I just started on Lammle's CCENT book today. Still in the middle of chapter 1. So far, the organization looks abysmal. Hopefully it's because it's only the introductions and it gets better.

I wish Mike Meyers made a CCENT/CCNA book. Or Darril Gibson. lol

Edit: But for the record, I have both the books suggested above. Unfortunately, it's too soon for me to talk about them since I haven't read them yet.

ds32118

DoubleNNs wrote: »

I just started on Lammle's CCENT book today. Still in the middle of chapter 1. So far, the organization looks abysmal. Hopefully it's because it's only the introductions and it gets better.

I agree with your assessment of Lammle's book, that is kind of why I used it as a secondary resource once I knew the basics of what Odom covered I was able to skip around chapters as needed. The middle chapters seemed to be good as those were where I focused my efforts on Lammle's book.

DoubleNNs

I have Odom's book. Maybe I'll read that 1st.

The fact that everyone says it's dry made me want to use THAT as my 2nd resource.

NotHackingYou

Todd Lammle's book is #1 IMO

MrXpert

red3784 wrote: »

I was looking at CCent for dumbies by Glenn Clarke.

That's one of the best books for the CCENT and it helped me loads
Other good sources would be router alley guide and perhaps Odom's book but only for a few sections.