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How to Use This Book to Pass the Exam 17
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Chapter 4--"Spanning Tree"
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Chapter 6--"Distance Vector Routing Protocols"
Strategy 4: Use the directions at the beginning of Chapter 9 to direct your final study before
the exam. Chapter 9 is designed to review many concepts, and it outlines a good process for
study in the days leading up to your exam.
This book should help you sift through the topics and choose the right areas for study, and it
also should help you to not waste your time. Congratulations on your Networking Academy
work--now add the CCNA certification to take away any doubt in the minds of prospective
employers that you know Cisco!
I'm New to Internetworking with Cisco, and I Will Not Be Taking the
ICND Course--Now What?
You can pass the CCNA exam without taking any courses. Of course, Cisco wants you to take
the recommended courses for all the exams--its motivation is not to make more money,
because Cisco does not actually deliver the training; the training partners do. Instead, Cisco
truly believes that the more people understand its products, ultimately the happier its customers
will be and the more products Cisco will sell. Cisco also believes that the official training is the
right way to teach people about Cisco products, so you're encouraged to take the classes.
If you are not taking any course, however, there is no reason to worry. Truthfully, though, you
will need more than just this book. Cisco Press publishes the Interconnecting Cisco Networking
Devices
book, which is a book version of the ICND course. The figures look exactly like those
in the course book, and the text comes from the course book, expanded and reorganized to work
well in book format. So, if you can't get to the course, for not a lot of money you can buy the
ICND book.
Of course, this book will be helpful, too. Try these suggestions:
Strategy 1: Buy the ICND book and read it. Although CCNA is not a course-based test, the
ICND course is listed as the only leader-led prerequisite course for CCNA.
Strategy 2: After reading ICND, use this book exactly as described in the opening pages of
Chapters 2 through 8. Each of the foundational chapters begins with a quiz that helps you assess
what you need to study. It then directs you to the appropriate sections in the chapter rather than
requiring you to read all of each chapter.
Strategy 3: Make it a point to read the sections of the book that cover topics not found in ICND.
These section titles are as follows:
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Chapter 2--"Syslog and Debug"
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Chapter 3--"The OSI, TCP/IP, and NetWare Protocol Architectures"
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