CCNA Routing and Switching 200-125: Official Cert Guide

I can't believe I'm writing a good review for this book. After enjoying reading/studying Lammle's ICND1. Lammle's writing style is active, direct to the point; making the book easy to read. Contrast to Odom's ICND1's writing style which is passive, and some topic's explanations are repetitious. Lammle explains a topic in 1 page while Odom takes 2 to 4 pages (average). However, as for ICND2 books comparison (Lammle vs Odom). Odom's ICND2 book is more superior than Lammle's ICND2 book. I bought Odom's book first. Being spoiled with Lammle's writing style, it was hard for me to read the first chapter of Odom's book. I would get frustrated with Odom's repetitious writing style that I would get a mild headache. So, I decided to buy Lammle's book. Lammle's ICND2 book has the same good writing style, however, it has half less pages than Odom's book. I decided to give Odom's book another try. However, this time around, I started reading last 3 chapters of the book. The last chapters was written more active than the first chapter. After reading the last chapters, I got accustomed to Odom's writing style. So, I flipped the book and started reading the first chapter with no problem. Now, while I'm writing this review I'm on chapter 7. Additionally, Odom's book have more topic explanations than Lammle's.

Great Study Material. I really recommend using packet tracer, Udemy videos , Todd lammle ccna study guide and boson software to practice for the exam!!!! With all these materials I was able to pass the ccna composite with 920. NOO It wasn’t easy!! It took me around 6 months of staying up late night studying and waking up in the mornings to do it again, after I passed the ccna exam I felt very confident about the material and applied for jobs like crazy after about another month or 2 I was finally able to land a contract job as an entry level network admin making $17.50 hr. Next month my contract will be up and I already have another company that wants to hire me full time with great benefits and with almost double the pay from my previous job. Life is great. In less than 2 years I went from dead-end warehouse jobs making minimum to a network admin position making over $20 hr. This has given me the privilege to not only pay my moms house off for Christmas but to also completely pay for my college and buy myself a new Jeep Wrangler. Now I’m just saving to buy a house. If I can do it there shouldn’t be any reason why you can’t. #knowledgeISpower #CEH UP NEXT

Great product works as advertised!

This was an outstanding guide for adding to the information presenting in the CCENT book. I bought both together and being able to swap back and forth between the two books based on Foundation Topics is crucial to understanding how the author writes. Even after using Cisco devices for over 4 years, this book explained the topics and ideas that I have not had to learn, but needed to know for the exam. This author writes in a very logical and well thought out manner that may appear as "dry" to some. That being said, there is not nad information in this guide and can be essential to helping anyone pass the ICND 2 exam, as long as they follow along with the diagrams and really apply themselves to the virtual trainers.

After reading some of these reviews, I got a bit concerned, but the Official Cert Guide (OCG) had gotten me through ICND1 all by itself with no problems. Unfortunately, after using this 200-105 book as the primary source of my study (with about a month's worth of Cisco Learning Network labs thrown in), I did not pass the ICND2 (got 790). As usual, I had studied so much that was not on the test, and there were plenty of tricky questions. The more important point is that there was definitely stuff on the test I had never seen before -- was not covered in the OCG. With the test still very fresh in my mind, I picked up a copy of the Lammle CCNA INCD2 Study Guide, and I clearly saw material covered that was on my test but not covered in the OCG. I went through over 500 of the OCG practice test questions -- spent hours and hours worrying about root bridge STP concepts and had zero of those questions on the test. Bottom line -- this book is not enough by itself. I recommend the Lammle book. It is much, much more concise, and somehow it seems to know better what is important for the test. Hopefully with both of these sources under my belt, I will pass the second time around. Update: Well, I did barely manage to pass the second time around (took test as soon as possible after 1st failure). I spent a week using the Lammle study guide, and it really helped. Unfortunately, there is just too much material on these tests. There were still things on the test not covered by either book. Good luck to you all.

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Great book! Very well written. The books are large but they way that they've devided chapters into parts makes this easy to digest. You can "do i know this already quizzes" at the beginning of each chapter to determine the amount of time you need to spend reading the chapter or skipping over it if need be. This allows you learn what you don't know and sharpen what you already know? i've already been able to either test out of chapters or skim over them. The books are literally designed to help ensure good study habits and build crucial skills needed to pass the exams and apply skills learned to real life. I can't put this book down it's that good! However....I feel like this product over hypes the labs...they are about worthless. The book set deserves 5 stars. The labs are less than stellar. I would suggest looking of CCNA work book and getting a free version of packet tracer. Combined with those you'll be able to get more from the book than just the lite versions of the labs I suspect.

Excelente (guia de referência e de estudos) tanto para quem já trabalha na área quanto (e principalmente) para quem busca certificação CCNA. A AMAZON também superou todas as minhas expectativas em tudo! Preços dos itens que comprei bem abaixo do valor que "as outras livrarias" cobram, rapidez e praticidade para a realização da compra online, embalagem do produto impecável (sério mesmo! uma caixa com a logomarca da Amazon muito bem embalada e os livros super protegidos em seu interior). O único ponto que não aprovei foi a NF com os meus dados expostos (Nome, CPF, Telefone e endereço à mostra, que aliás, gostaria de sugerir que a NF fosse entregue no interior da embalagem, ou disposta de forma discreta para evitar transtornos com os nomes dos Clientes, afinal, isso aqui é "Brasil"...). Mas, de verdade, o que me surpreendeu foi a RAPIDEZ na entrega. Realizei a compra no dia 03/06 à tarde, e a entrega foi realizada no dia 05/06. Realmente muito rápido para os padrões brasileiros, se é que vocês me entendem... Com toda certeza voltarei a comprar pela Amazon! A equipe realmente está de parabéns!

Es perfecto para preparase la certificacion

A useful study book for CCNA certification, explanation was very clear and easy to understand, comes with simulator and practice test that boost your knowledge

Con la nueva versión de la certificación que entró en vigor este año, es una muy buena forma de estudiar por si solo. Si estás intentando conseguir la certificación CCNA R&S ya sea por medio de los dos examenes 100-105 y 200-105 o el 200-125 este paquete incluye ambos libros para cubrir los temas necesarios del ICND1 y ICND2 que juntos forman el CCNA R&S. Cisco al actualizar la certificación se modificaron los temas, tanto quitó algunos como agregó otros y por lo mismo los libros tienen más capítulos que los de la versión anterior (200-120). Los capítulos son relativamente cortos, algunos son de unas 20 páginas, otros en los que ves configuración y troubleshooting pueden tener alrededor de 30-40 páginas, pero están buen muy explicados que por lo mismo no se extienden innecesariamente. Junto con este par libros solo queda practicar, practicar y practicar para poder conseguir el 200-125.

Finally it arrived!! Started reading a dew days ago and I am already starting to understand networking. Soon that CCNA exam will as easy as eating a pie :) A big book but worth reading specially if you are doing a self study