Network Fundamentals, CCNA Exploration Companion Guide (2nd Edition) (Companion Guide)
This book is the official supplemental textbook for the Network Fundamentals course in the Cisco® Networking Academy® CCNA® Exploration curriculum version 4. The course, the first of four in the new curriculum, is based on a top-down approach to networking. The Companion Guide, written and edited by Networking Academy instructors, is designed as a portable desk reference to use anytime, anywhere. The book’s features reinforce the material in the course to help you focus on important concepts and organize your study time for exams.
Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Certification Exam Prep. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.
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Balanced tone · Steady pace
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- ISBN-13
- 978-1-5871-3208-7
- Language
- English
- Edition record
- OL12320651M
A more thoughtful way into this book
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Best when you want to settle into a longer reading experience.
Begin with its place in Certification Exam Prep, then notice where the book resists that label.
Read for connection, not completion.
Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.
Three questions to carry with you
- What does the central character want, and what do they misunderstand about that desire?
- Which detail or relationship changes how you interpret the story?
- What feeling or question does the book leave with you after the plot moves on?
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