CCIE Routing and Switching v5.0 Official Cert Guide Library 5th Edition

This is the set to have, even if you don't take the test. Almost everything important in Cisco networking is explained in detail. Great reference.

Enjoyed reading the book.

I noticed that the books focus mainly in the blueprint from the CCIE R&S. By reading this book you will not become a CCIE or even get close to be able to pass the test. this book is meant to be a guide to CCIE candidates.Update Post:After reading the books cover to cover; I have found some great topics and some very weak and almost pointless chapters. The book VOL 1 starts with some very basic topics about IP addressing and frankly that was a waste of time as for CCIE you must know those topics by heart. it also flights through some topics by just giving definitions and letting you completely lost of what the technology do and why the topic was addressed there.The books VOL1 has a very nice explanations of IGP (EIGRP, OSPF and falls short in IS-IS). IS-IS is so important that was removed in the pass version and brought back to this exam.The book VOL2 falls short on BGP ( the books points mostly to theory than to configuration) but the second books that's a great job explaining Multicast. it is nicely and easily explained through the chapters (again theory wise) for configuration and troubleshooting you have to go with Doyle and the TCP IP Volumen II. The second books falls short on the rest of the chapters for most of its topics. I gives you a nice intro to MPLS; but it is very superficial.Security is also touched but mostly for the basic things as you will on the CCNA. Tunneling technologies were mostly conceptual. it gives you a good idea of shapping and QOS but does not deep into any of the topics.over all the books is good; but as mentioned in other post. you got to guess sometimes what the writer wanted to say as the typos are horrible all through the book. notice that some graphics are also incomplete. the book references the graphics and when you go back to the graphic there is not information about what the book says. some routers were label twice so the book mentions router 5 but there are two routers 4. you have to try and figure out which one is 5.please do read this books after you finish reading the Routing TCP/IP VOL 1 and 2. because of how technical those books are; I found it great to have slowly explained to me some of the concepts on the those books by the CCIE V5 Library.I hope you find this post helpful.

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Expansive and detailed. Good information platform to fill in key knowledge gaps that will be covered on the written and lab tests.

Great book for studying.

Sections of these books are very good, and Narbik has an excellent reputation as an instructor -- but this a disappointment as an "Official Cert Guide."When I took the CCIE v5.0 exam after using this book in my preparation, it felt as if I had studied for a very different test. Be aware that there are topics in the exam blueprint that are not covered in this book (or not covered in sufficient depth) and that there are topics covered in the book that are irrelevant to the test.You are better off starting with the exam blueprint and Googling each topic, or going through the CCIEorDie website. If you need a book to build your base knowledge of IP routing, try Doyle's book.

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