Understanding Cisco Networking Technologies, Volume 1: Exam 200-301 (CCNA Certification, 1)

Easy to use

Todd has always been a tremendous help in preparing for my CCNA materials. He's great at explaining concepts aned his videos on his site are amazing.

The book gives more than I expected

Everything is well explained in the book. Very cheep but efficient compared to the official cisco training.

Easy to understand the steps of the book

The content is okay but the explanations and terminology might not be the best for a complete noob. It’s an easy read but I think that this might better serve as a light supplement to an online course rather than a single source for studying.

Got to the end of the book and realized it does not cover any of the automation I have been hearing about with the new 200-301. Disappointed that I have to find the info elsewhere. If I am wrong about this in some way, please let me know and I will remove my review. I have never given anything a bad review but this is kinda simple math. When you are given a list of topics from Cisco, you should ensure that the self help book you write covers all of those topics.6.0 Automation and Programmability6.1 Explain how automation impacts network management6.2 Compare traditional networks with controller-based networking6.3 Describe controller-based and software defined architectures (overlay, underlay, andfabric)6.3.a Separation of control plane and data plane6.3.b North-bound and south-bound APIs6.4 Compare traditional campus device management with Cisco DNA Center enabled devicemanagement6.5 Describe characteristics of REST-based APIs (CRUD, HTTP verbs, and data encoding)6.6 Recognize the capabilities of configuration management mechanisms Puppet, Chef, andAnsible6.7 Interpret JSON encoded data

Great book learned allot. The only thing I didn't like, is no questions for the book? I'm I missing something here?