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Title: BCSN: Building Scalable Cisco Networks (Book/CD-ROM package) by Thomas M., Ii Thomas, Arjan Aelmans, Floris Houniet, Tan Nam-Kee ISBN: 0-07-212477-6 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 25 September, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $60.00

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Average Customer Rating: 2.81 (21 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Great study aid to use with official BSCN course material!!
Comment: I bought this book three weeks before I took the course, and it helped me a lot in understanding the complex topics of the BSCN exam (multi-area OSPF, BGP). I feel these actually should belong to their own specific course as the instructor kind of rushed over them in 2,5 day. This book was really helpful in getting the grasp of the essentials and the concepts are explained in a very clear matter. I find the Cisco manual to be really over-worded (page filling!) and therefore dig the down-to-earth approach of this book. It's true that there are typo's but that's clearly the reviewers responsibility (or lack of it..) and flaming the authors here seems inappropriate to me. I downloaded the errata from ccprep.com and added them to the text. What's left are some minor errors, but nothing that keeps me from sleeping well!! :-) Good work -> 5 starts from me! Diane. (ps: exam scheduled in december :-o )

Rating: 2
Summary: Only worthwhile because it's the first
Comment: I was excited to finally receive this book since it just came out and I wanted some material specifically focused on the BSCN, but now I'm disappointed. It was clearly rushed from the publisher as it contains typographical errors, wrong answers to review questions, and just plain incorrect information. If you have the book, check out section 3.3.1 where the author mentions that without using 0 and 255 as addresses, there are 253 available hosts. Hellloooo. My advice is to get ahold of the Cisco Press ACRC book (from CCNP v1.0) and use that in conjunction with this if you must. Hopefully, the publisher will come out with an errata soon (it will be lengthy) so people don't learn wrong information. The bottom line is this: if you have other materials, even if they are older, use those until better books come out. Follow Cisco's exam outline and use public documents and specifications. Follows newsgroups (alt.certification.cisco, comp.dcom.sys.cisco).

My one good comment about this book is that the FAQs at the end of chapters are intelligently crafted with some good thoughts and information.

Rating: 4
Summary: Doesn't make you an expert, but more than enough to pass.
Comment: I only gave this book 4 stars because of the numerous typos. Bottom line is, it's an easy read--a much easier read than the Sybex book or the Cisco Press. If your goal is to pass the BSCN, and if you want a book that's straight forward, with the authors not trying to impress you with unnecessary technical mumbo jumbo, then this is your book. With this book, and the study questions from cheet-sheets.com, you're sure to pass. I passed with an 816 only reading this book once, reading two chapters a week. Just remember, you only need 690 to pass. Good luck.