Cisco CID Exam Certification Guide

The only Cisco-approved study guide for the CCDP CID Exam.

• The only Cisco-endorsed study guide for the Cisco Internetwork Design Exam.
• Includes review of all concepts covered on the exam for designing complex routed and switched networks
• Accompanying CD-ROM containing unique questions and sample tests to help readers identify and master areas of weakness
• Extensive use of chapter quizzes and end-of-chapter questions

The only Cisco-endorsed study guide for the Cisco Internetwork Design Exam #640-025, Cisco CID Exam Certification Guide covers all of the major topic areas and objectives for the exam. Organized to help you make the most of your study time, this book focuses on review of the concepts involved in advanced network design, principles of network-layer including addressing, traffic management, and performance considerations.

Foundation Summary sections concisely outline major concepts for quick reference while chapter-opening quizzes enable you to evaluate your knowledge of chapter topics. Scenario-based exercises and chapter-ending review questions reinforce retention and recall of exam topics. Finally, practice questions on the companion CD-ROM enable you to build and take random sample tests.

Daniel Lafraia
CCNP,CCDP


CID is easy to understand as a design exam   November 17, 2002
 0 out of 1 found this review helpful

To understand this book you must have a good working understand of the CCNP foundation. Which is Switching Routing and remote access. In those books they cover the design parts that you need for the good design work. It is import to realize that there are many way to design a network that works succesfully. Cisco has it's own design ideas. I have taken the design exam and everthing you need to know is in the CID book. It may jump out and bit you but you have to look for it. I have everthing exept my IE and I will be doing that next year. So all I can say is if you think that this is easy and the exam will be easy you better go back and read the book and also go to Cisco web site and down load ATM design. It is a little more in depth than the book. I enjoyed this book and it was challanging in a few way but the points were delivered.


Sub-standard and shameful!   October 21, 2002
Having passed 6 Cisco exams (na, da, np)I must say this is the poorest excuse for Cisco study material I've yet encountered. That includes Cisco Press, Sybex/Lammle, and NetCerts. Gross conceptual innacuracies (not just typos!) frequently highlight the writers' fundamental misunderstanding of the topics. To think that one of the writers is a CCIE shakes my confidence in the program altogether.

I have only read up to Chapter 11 so far, and I find myself continually checking CCO just to confirm the veractity of statements made in the text. This should not be necessary!

I believe I will pass the CID exam due to my previous CCNP studies, but no thanks are offered to this book. Boooooooo.


Sub-standard and shameful!   October 21, 2002
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Having passed 6 Cisco exams (na, da, np)I must say this is the poorest excuse for Cisco study material I've yet encountered. That includes Cisco Press, Sybex/Lammle, and NetCerts. Gross conceptual innacuracies (not just typos!) frequently highlight the writers' fundamental misunderstanding of the topics. To think that one of the writers is a CCIE shakes my confidence in the program altogether.

I have only read up to Chapter 11 so far, and I find myself continually checking CCO just to confirm the veractity of statements made in the text. This should not be necessary!

I believe I will pass the CID exam due to my previous CCNP studies, but no thanks are offered to this book. Boooooooo.


No better than it needs to be.   March 31, 2002
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This book is about median on the Cisco Press quality see-saw. The chapters on SNA fill out a CCDP requirement that's hard to research elsewhere. The Voice over Data networking chapter is a nice summary, too. Otherwise, the writing of this book poorly rehashes what you should already know from the previous 5 exams you had to take before this one. I recommend getting this book, but reading it selectively, without intent to go cover to cover. I used this method, and passed the exam with a fat safety margin.