CCNA Routing and Switching ICND2 200-105 Official Cert Guide

by Odom Wendell

Trust the best-selling Official Cert Guide series from Cisco Press to help you learn, prepare, and practice for exam success. They are built with the objective of providing assessment, review, and practice to help ensure you are fully prepared for your certification exam.CCNA Routing and Switching ICND2 200-105 Official Cert Guide presents you with an organized test preparation routine through the use of proven series elements and techniques. “Do I Know This Already?” quizzes open each chapter and enable you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section. Exam topic lists make referencing easy. Chapter-ending Exam Preparation Tasks help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly. · Master Cisco CCNA ICND2 200-105 exam topics · Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes · Review key concepts with exam preparation tasks · Practice with realistic exam questions on the CD-ROMCCNA Routing and Switching ICND2 200-105 Official Cert Guide from Cisco Press enables you to succeed on the exam the first time and is the only self-study resource approved by Cisco.Best-selling author and expert instructor Wendell Odom shares preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills.This complete study package includes · A test-preparation routine proven to help you pass the exams · "Do I Know This Already?" quizzes, which enable you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section · Chapter-ending and part-ending exercises, which help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly · Troubleshooting sections, which help you master the complex scenarios you will face on the exam · The powerful Pearson IT Certification Practice Test software, complete with hundreds of well-reviewed, exam-realistic questions, customization options, and detailed performance reports · A free copy of the CCNA ICND2 200-105 Network Simulator Lite software, complete with meaningful lab exercises that help you hone your hands-on skills with the command-line interface for routers and switches · Links to a series of hands-on config labs developed by the author · Online interactive practice exercises that help you hone your knowledge · More than 50 minutes of video mentoring from the author · A final preparation chapter, which guides you through tools and resources to help you craft your review and test-taking strategies · Study plan suggestions and templates to help you organize and optimize your study timeWell regarded for its level of detail, study plans, assessment features, challenging review questions and exercises, video instruction, and hands-on labs, this official study guide helps you master the concepts and techniques that ensure your exam success.This official study guide helps you master all the topics on the CCNA ICND2 exam, including · Ethernet LANs · IPv4 routing protocols · Wide area networks · IPv4 ACLs and QoS · IPv4 routing and troubleshooting · IPv6 · Network management, SDN, and cloud computingCompanion DVD The DVD contains more than 300 unique practice exam questions, ICND2 Network Simulator Lite software, online practice exercises, and 55 minutes of video training.Includes Exclusive Offers for up to 70% Off Practice Tests, Video Training, and Network Simulation SoftwareThis volume is part of the Official Cert Guide series from Cisco Press. Books in this series provide officially developed exam-preparation materials that offer assessment, review, and practice to help Cisco Career Certification candidates identify weaknesses, concentrate their study efforts, and enhance their confidence as exam day nears.Also available from Cisco Press for CCNA study is the CCNA Routing and Switching ICND2 200-105 Official Cert Guide Premium Edition eBook and Practice Test . This digital-only certification preparation product combines an eBook with enhanced Pearson IT Certification Practice Test.This integrated learning package · Enables you to focus on individual topic areas or take complete, timed exams · Includes direct links from each question to detailed tutorials to help you understand the concepts behind the questions · Provides unique sets of exam-realistic practice questions · Tracks your performance and provides feedback on a module-by-module basis, laying out a complete assessment of your knowledge to help you focus your study where it is needed mostPearson IT Certification Practice Test minimum system Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7, or Vista (SP2), Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Client; Pentium-class 1 GHz processor (or equivalent); 512 MB RAM; 650 MB disk space plus 50 MB for each downloaded practice exam; access to the Internet to register and download exam databases

Genres: Reference, Nonfiction

2472 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 29, 2016

Reviews

[Hooman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Informative, but now it is better to consider 200-301, the new one, if you are new to the Cisco and networking

[Daniel Eckhoff · Rating 5 out of 5]

Solid text, yet not a one stop shop. People will say it's dry but ultimately it's best not to sideline the reader with too much raff, otherwise they'll be inundated with useless information - kind of like watching a Jeremy Cioara video. This book is best accompanied with official Cisco documentation and RFCs as it is not the end all be all, but it is definitely as close as you are going to get for the ICND2.

[John Kirk · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a "solid" book, in more ways than one! I.e. it's long, with a lot of information, but that information is accurate. I read this in parallel with the CCENT/CCNA ICND1 100-105 Official Cert Guide, e.g. I read the IPv4 chapters from both books, then the IPv6 chapters from both books. Each book has over 900 pages, and it took me months to slog through them. Some chapters from the 100-105 book are repeated verbatim in the 200-105 book; in other circumstances, I'd complain about padding and paying for the same thing twice, but in this case it was a relief to be able to skip forward a chapter!

I personally found this more interesting than the 100-105 book, because more of the content was new to me. However, that's subjective, so it will depend on your own past experience. As with the other book, the author is limited by the exam syllabus. For instance, chapter 6 describes the concepts of DHCP snooping (exam objective 1.7.b) but doesn't cover the implementation. When this book was published in 2017, the 210-260 CCNA Security exam would cover configuration (objective 4.5.a), but as of 2020 that's been incorporated into the 200-301 version of CCNA (objective 5.7). Similarly, this book doesn't even mention RA guard, i.e. the IPv6 equivalent. However, there are other places to learn about that. So, just be aware that this book (and the certification itself) won't necessarily teach you everything you need to know to actually do your job as a network administrator.

Likewise, the book has to match how Cisco devices actually work, rather than the wider world. For instance, chapter 10 (p255) refers to "a default delay setting of 100 microseconds (usec)". The SI prefix for micro is μ (the Greek letter Mu), so in a Physics paper that should say "μsec". However, I assume that Cisco devices don't support Unicode, and it makes sense for the book to be consistent with that.

I submitted some errata for this book in Feb 2020, but the Cisco press webpage was last updated in Nov 2019. It's disappointing that they ignored my submissions, and there are a few bits that are flat out wrong, i.e. they change the meaning of the text. In particular:

* Chapter 6, p150, figure 6-6. "aaa authentication line default" should be "aaa authentication login default"

* Chapter 20, p564, table 20-7, second row. The HSRP priority is listed as "0..255" but that's only true for v1. It could be 0..4095 for v2.

* Chapter 24, p654, example 24-6 (caption). Change "OSPFv3" to "EIGRP for IPv6".

* Chapter 26, p709, 2nd paragraph. If example 26-9 matches 26-7, it shouldn't have an ACL for BookGroup1. (Alternately, example 26-7 should specify that ACL.)

(Those errata all refer to the 5th printing of the book.)

Ultimately, if I decide to take the 200-301 exam then I'll buy Wendell Odom's books for that. Based on this one, I'm confident that he'll fill in any gaps in my knowledge, even if it's a slog to get through them.

[Josh Baker · Rating 5 out of 5]

“CCNA Routing and Switching ICND2 200-105” moves both forward and backward in time from the events in “CCNA Routing and Switching ICND1 100-105,” in an attempt to resolve our feelings about the Corleones. In doing so, it provides for itself a structural weakness from which the book never recovers, but it does something even more disappointing: It reveals a certain simplicity in Wendell Odom’s notions of motivation and characterization that wasn’t there in the elegant masterpiece of his earlier book.

Odom handles a lot of this material very well. As in the earlier book, he reveals himself as a master of mood, atmosphere, and period. And his exposition is inventive and subtle. The book requires the intelligent participation of the reader; as Michael attempts to discover who betrayed him and attempted his assassination, he tells different stories to different people, keeping his own counsel, and we have to think as he does so we can tell the truth from the lies.

Thanks, Wendell Odom, for helping me pass my CCNA this year!

[Aaron Case · Rating 4 out of 5]

Boring but informative

[Matthew Rollins · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Study Guide and Reference

I think this book is essential for studying for the CCNA. Well until Feb 23rd, then I would imagine there will be another set.

[Hugo Darino · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow, I have learned a new found respect for my peers in Network Operations and Network Engineering. There is so much work, thought, and outright hard work to properly design, implement, and support a good network. When done right, users are 100% unaware of all the work required to achieve it, and naturally will not ever have a reason to think or need to engage the network groups responsible for making it happen.

As an infrastructure professional who spent most of his career understanding the role of properly configured and managed servers, services, and clients, I also recognize that it takes the same kind of philosophy and meticulous attention to detail for end users to have no reason to complain.

I take my hat off for all you network professionals, I salute you on mastering all these skills taught in this course, I can only imagine all the additional work and study for you CCNPs, CCIEs, etc.

[River · Rating 4 out of 5]

A common criticism of Odom's texts is that they're too dry, but I don't feel this way at all. For one, I have found that the textbooks that try to make things a bit more fun tend to have more errors in them! See my review of another CCNA textbook, by Todd Lammle, to get more insight on what I'm talking about.

For another, I would much prefer to get the straight facts, unsullied by vain attempts at humor. I'm reading these books for educational and career purposes, not to try and get a laugh!

Anyhow, the two of Odom's textbooks I have read - for the ICND1 and ICND2 - were the highest quality, with only two spelling errors that I can recall. The CD supplement really helps to dig into why one answer to a question is correct and why the other answers are incorrect is a GIGANTIC help. The only reason I don't give this book a full five stars is that the book claims that it comes with free practice tests, but my brand new copy of the textbook offers no clear way of actually obtaining said tests. Of course, I believe this is most likely an error on my part, though I do feel it should be more clear how to redeem said tests.

Note: Finished reading this on May 4, 2019 but I do not wish for this to show in any of my reading challenges, so it has no date.