So, what you are saying is that people without a technical background
shouldn't get into the field? Don't people have to start somewhere?
We have a person at my compnay who has worked with numerical control systems
and electronics design for 20 years, decided on a career change, and my
company took a chance on him. Working on his CCNP currently. You know, he
needs stuff like Todds books, becuase he's just learning this stuff. You
have to start somewhere. He's spending 3-4 hours a day on the lab at work,
learning everything forwards and backwards. But you cannot just throw a
high-level tech book at him,. you have to be spoon feed at some point.
BTW, I have a couple Cisco Press "Certification Guide" books here for CCNA
and ACRC tests? Would those count as books designed toward the test? Thats
what Cisco wrote them for, isn't it. Not a bit different then Todd's books,
are they.
"Marc Quibell" <mquibell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Thank you for proving my point that the use of the book is to make it
easier
> for the less-technical people to get the same certs as us more proficient
> and experienced professionals. Because those of us who have experience CAN
> understand the techinical writings Cisco publishes. You even stated you
use
> it in your school..for inexperienced people to be able to at least pass a
> test. This accomplishes nothing more than degradation of the Cisco Titles.
> Nice job!
>
> Marc
>
> Schmendrick Dawes <bobmon99@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:20000502221225.18530.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Let's give Todd a break. My personal experience has
> > been that when I convinced my school to switch from
> > the Cisco Press ICRC book to Lammle's study notes for
> > CCNA, interest in the reading went up enormously.
> > Every comment on the Cisco ICRC book was "boring,
> > unreadable", while the Lammle book seems to be written
> > by a human being. The whole purpose of these tests is
> > not to show mastery of a program or device, but to
> > show that a person is TRAINABLE. This is what
> > companies are looking for. Personally, I could give
> > all my students the answers to the CCNA in the first
> > two weeks of my class, but that would be true
> > dilution. I make them earn it by doing labs that
> > encompass all the concepts on the test, as well as
> > assigned reading from Lammle. The ones who get the
> > certs are the ones who deserve it, not the ones who
> > just try to take the shortest and easiest path.
> > Also, one more thing on Cisco Press: How many pages
> > are there in ICRC on the important test topic of ISDN?
> > Answer: 1 sentence.
> > At least Lammle has four or five pages.....
> >
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