CCNA and CCNET Books (Supplemental Material)
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James,
Our current course doesn't easily align itself with any one book that's out on the market. This is because we didn't have permissions to cover anyone's proprietary material. We generally cover the content by the specified exam objectives as their appear.
That doesn't mean there not plenty of good books out there but just that our current shows do not line up directly with any of them. I've always enjoyed the books by Wendell Odom, Steve McQuarrie and et al from Cisco Press.
There are also some great ones in the Sybex pubs too.
Cordially,
Ronnie Wong
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jgortney,
I don't know of anyone who has used already published material in line with ITProTV. But even, when I was studying for the CCNA back in 2006 - 2007, I took the official course, and I still appreciated Wendell Odom's book then for the great diagrams and lab examples that I would configure equipment to try and the same thing Wendell would do. They cemented concepts that I learned in the class and provided some answers to questions that a 5 day class just doesn't have the time to answer.
I guess today, I would use the ITProTV course to help focus in on preparing for the topics that will be covered on the exam and then Wendell Odom's book or anyone else's to help me find answers that I came across on my own study and use it to do additional labs that as a novice, I didn't know what topology to build, Wendell would lay it out and I would build it.
To tell you the truth, this was some of the best times the equipment itself because I was able to recable the equipment and make sure I had the correct physical configuration before the logical configurations and see some of the differences in old equipment vs newer equipment. At times, I would use GNS3 and find out the limitations and benefits of emulators. So from Wendell Odom, I was able to take his labs and make it complex. Then to also diagram a lab topology to allow me configure just about cisco ccna concept that I needed without having to recable after a while.
Cordially,
Ronnie Wong
Host, ITProTV