Product Description

This text features: FAQ sections to aid troubleshooting problem areas; case studies, scenarios and configurations; Visio graphic package provided on the CD-ROM; and Cisco icon package that allows the reader to draw different router configurations as they practice for the examination.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #809967 in Books
• Published on: 2000-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 560 pages

Book Info
(Osborne) Provides curriculum-based coverage to help study for the CCNP exam. Contents include building and managing campus networks, improvement of IP routing performance with multilayer switching, managing high-bandwidth multimedia application traffic with IP multicasting, and more. Contains more than 200 sample questions.

From the Inside Flap
Complete coverage of the newly revised CCNP Switching test!

The demand for certified networking professionals who have experience with Cisco products and Cisco-based networks has never been higher. Written in conjunction with NetCerts, the premier Cisco certification training Website, BCMSN: Building Cisco Multilayer Switching Networks gives you full, curriculum-based coverage to help you study for the CCNP exam and succeed as a Cisco professional. Contents include:

- Building and managing campus networks

- Improvement of IP routing performance with multilayer switching

- Managing high-bandwidth multimedia application traffic with IP multicasting

- Controlling access in a campus network

- Real-world case studies and actual configurations for practical hands-on experience

- Over 200 sample questions for review

Comprehensive, thorough, and reliable, this is the only book you'll need for both preparing for the CCNP exam, and as a helpful on-the-job desk reference.

FastTrak Express Testing Software Features:

- More than 200 multiple-choice practice questions - Timed standard and adaptive simulated exams - Answer review and detailed score analysis

From the Back Cover
The demand for certified networking professionals who have experience with Ciscob products and Cisco-based networks has never been higher. Written in conjunction with NetCerts, the premier Cisco certification training Website, BCMSN: Building Ciscob Multilayer Switching Networks gives you full, curriculum-based coverage to help you study for the CCNP exam and succeed as a Cisco professional. Contents include:

Building and managing campus networks Improvement of IP routing performance with multilayer switching
Managing high-bandwidth multimedia application traffic with IP multicasting
Controlling access in a campus network
Real-world case studies and actual configurations for practical hands-on experience
Over 200 sample questions for review

Customer Reviews

Good overview but lacking in depth
I'll give this book credit for the fact it is easy to read but that's about it. I had thought the Cisco Press book was lacking until I read this one. It's a decent book on switching but I didn't find it very useful for passing the CCNP switching exam. I would recommend the Cisco Press and the Todd Lammle books. Reading the two of them will surely prepare anybody for the exam. The McGraw Hill book just doesn't have the depth and isn't very accurate. I also noted that the technical editor is a CCNA/DA. I find it hard to believe that a technical editor can provide much insite on a study guide for a certification that is beyond what he has. Spend your money on Todd Lammle's and Karen Webb's books and let this dog lie.

Book has several errors and the test is plagued with errors.
I would be careful when reading this book there are several errors, and if you don't know what you are doing I wouldn't even bother using the self test as it will put incorrect answers in your head. There are at least five questions that are just obviously wrong. If you take the self test I would go over to CCO online, and verify that any answer the software gives you is correct. I am amazed that they allowed so many errors to make it into the final pressing of the CD.

Fraught with errors
I just passed the BCMSN test but not thanks to this book. This book is fraught with errors, fortunately I was using Cisco materials and the Switching Exam Cram to find out the errors. They skipped over important information and not nearly enough on trunking etc. I had approximately 9 questions on the test about trunking and where was the information? Not here that's for sure. Oh and try the practice test on the CD, useless. It asks poorly and obscurely written questions that have nothing to do with the test. Buy something else