31 Days Before Your CCNA Exam

This is a wonderful step-by-step day-by-day planner to help prepare YOU for the CCNA Exam, I recommend this book to anyone preparing for their CCNA EXAM, I know from personal experience it is not Easily passible, because honestly---Everyone would have their CCNA now wouldnt they, and we dont want that huh...so study, study, study!!! and this book deffinately helped me!!!

OK, so you've taken the four courses required for the CCNA exam. You know you need the piece of paper. You have one more task, Take The Test. Now what. Now what you have to do is go back to all those courses and pull out what you need to review so your memory will be fresh, and of course unfailing. This book is a guide to the review you need to make in the last 31 days before the test. It is broken down by days, with each day having six or seven pages of material you'll need to know. If you read these few pages and have no problems remembering the background and understanding in full what they are saying, you're in good shape. But more important, it it brings up a subject that sounds like a foreign language, you'll know where to go back in the various text books to find the details. Remember this is not the course, this is a review of what you need to have gleaned out of the courses. If you know what's here you'll be well on your way to passing the test.

I bought this for my son to help with his prep for the CCNA exam. He raves about the book and how it clears things up and helps him to understand stuff that his teacher wasn't very clear on. I am so relieved to have found something to help him prepare and give him some confidence in the difficult material. I think the 31 Days idea is a great way to make it seem less overwhelming too. This book is a must buy for anyone getting their CCNA!

31 Days Before Your CCNA Exam is written exclusively for the Cisco Networking Academy student who is preparing for the CCNA exam. It is organized such that the student can break down important concepts into understandable chunks to study for the exam. This book does a very good job of preparing the reader by giving them a timetable to study and then finally take the exam. Each day in this guide breaks down an exam topic into a manageable bit of information to review using short summaries from relevant parts of the four Networking Academy CCNA courses. The author does a great job summarizing the important concepts for the exam, but this should not be the sole book to study in order to take the exam. The book refers the user back to the Networking Academy curriculum for reference and study help. The author includes a section called "Getting to Know the CCNA exam" that explains how the test is laid out, including types of questions that could be asked. He also includes a section titled "Exam day and Post-Exam Information" that gives exam-takers guidelines on what to expect after the exam, as well as what to do if they do not pass on the first attempt. The diagrams and tables in the book are standard Cisco artwork. Coverage of the OSI model is complete, as is the section on IP addressing. Wildcard masking is touched on to some extent; coverage could be more complete in this area. Coverage of LAN switching is also lacking. Overall, 31Days Before Your CCNA Exam is a true gem. It really is for the Cisco student that has some experience and not just coming in "blind". The book really needed to have simulation software bundled with it since that is a major point of the Cisco CCNA exam. Use the day-by-day guide and checklist to organize, prepare, and review. The best motivation for studying is scheduling an actual test date, so sign up and declare, "I am going to take the CCNA exam in 31 days, and this is what I will do to prepare leading up to the exam." Buy the book, it will definitely help you!