Cisco Certified Support Technician CCST Networking 100-150 Official Cert Guide

I work as a helpdesk tech and my boss said I needed the CCST Networking certification to move up. I had no recent school experience with networks and needed a book that explained things from the start. This one is the official Cisco guide, so I picked it. I read two chapters each weeknight for about five weeks and did the “Do I Know This Already” quizzes first to skip parts I already understood. The explanations are clear and use simple drawings that made subnetting click for me faster than YouTube videos ever did. I watched the five hours of video that come with it on weekends when I got stuck on cabling or troubleshooting steps. The practice tests online felt very close to the real exam questions. My only complaint is that some chapters repeat ideas a little, but it helped me remember them. I took the test last week and passed with room to spare. For anyone starting in networking who wants one book that covers everything on the CCST Networking exam, this is the one I would tell them to get. Definitely worth the money.

Good book Very informative and very well written. While It's a bit more than what's required for the exam, I suspect the exam will get a bit harder. I'm glad I read the book before testing. Gives a solid foundation that is easy to assimilate.

I tried to give it a chance for the CCST. Decided to use a different book instead.

I’m only 3 chapters in, and I’ve found quite a few errors… it’s been pretty frustrating to have to stop my study time to fact check this book. For example, on page 75, it says, “ Switches could switch packets nearly as fast as their interface speeds.” It should be couldn’t. Legacy switches couldn’t switch packets for hardware nearly as fast as their interface speeds.

I see some complaining it goes to in depth on some topics, but for the sake of understanding sometimes you need to take a holistic approach and cover additional material, that said I do recommend going to skillsforall and completing that free training as well.

When you are looking for a Cisco certification it is best to use a Cisco book. This has everything you will need to know.

If there's one thing that this book is, it's technical and detailed, way too much so. It also jumps around way too much and makes taking effective notes with brevity in mind very difficult. I bought it thinking that I'd learn plenty but if anything, given how detailed and in depth it is, it defeats the purpose of the CCST being a BEGINNER certification to have an official study guide that goes this in depth. I'd recommend something else if you're looking to just get the cert.

The book is overkill for the test. I took it for fun and found it easier than the CompTIA Network+ (skip that one too unless your company is paying for it).

There is a lot of errors in this book (I verified with qualified people). Many concepts are explained in a very confusing way, and are way better explained by amateurs on youtube. All this makes it way too difficult for beginners to learn from that ressource. Go on skillsforall website and follow the FREE learning path.

I passed the CCST Networking in January. Used this book and the Skillsforall courses. 75% of what is in this book, does not appear on the CCST Networking exam.

Toegang tot de website en info van CISCO zit bij de prijs in.

As others have said, this book is overly detailed for the purpose of passing the CCST exam. This isn't an issue if you value gaining a deeper understanding of the topics, especially if you plan to progress on to certs like CCNA. However if you are just concerned with studying efficiently to pass the CCST exam then this book is overkill. Some sections are well written, but others really need work. I read through the sections on dynamic routing protocols & worked through the examples multiple times, but was still having difficulties. Then I watched a free 12 minute video on YouTube which made it clearer than several hours spent with the book. But the biggest issue & the reason for the 2 stars is the errors. Errors like this in a technical text, especially one from the vendor of the cert itself, are inexcusable. I have a CompSci background so was able to pick up on a lot of these straight away, but for somebody new to the material (which is really the target audience for CCST) these errors will really impede learning. To give you an idea of the sort of errors I’m talking about, here are three choice examples; 1.) In chapter 3 when covering IPv6, the book says that link local addresses are prefixed by fe00 - they are actually prefixed by fe80. 2.) In chapter 8 the book explains that bandwidth is calculated by subtracting the maximum frequency from the minimum frequency - this is the wrong way round & would give you negative bandwidth every time. 3.) In chapter 13 when talking about Clos fabrics, the book says a defining feature is that they have links between ToR switches & between spine routers. It’s actually the complete opposite, Clos fabrics _don’t_ have links between ToR switches or between spine routers. In the following paragraph the book then refers to a Clos fabric as a Cos fabric. And these errors aren’t confined to the book itself, they are also in the accompanying online materials. In one of the practice exams, a question refers to the ‘OSPF network layer’ of the OSI model. While OSPF does (debatably) operate at the network layer, there is simply no such thing as the 'OSPF network layer'. I don’t doubt that the author knows his stuff, however this book seems to have been rushed to publication without sufficient proofreading. I definitely can’t recommend it in the first edition.

Net het boek gelezen en is zeer leerzaam voor een beginnende Netwerk Engineer. Je heb na het lezen lang niet alle kennis maar wel een goed begin.