Our Core Knowledge Simulation product contains More Information links to many of the Web documents that Cisco composes questions from. For those that want to supplement with the bookshelf, here are some recommendations by topic. If you have a favorite not listed below, be sure to comment!
A. Bridging and Switching
1. Frame relay – Chin, Cisco Frame Relay Solutions Guide
2. Catalyst configuration: VLANs, VTP, STP, MSTP, RSTP, Trunk, Etherchannel, management, features, advanced configuration, Layer 3 – Barnes, Cisco LAN Switching Fundamentals
3. Tunneling – DOC-CD
B. IP IGP Routing
1. OSPF – Doyle, Routing TCP/IP Vol 1
2. EIGRP – Doyle, Routing TCP/IP Vol 1
3. RIPv2 – Doyle, Routing TCP/IP Vol 1
4. IPv6: Addressing, RIPng, OSPFv3 – Loshin, IPv6 Theory, Protocol and Practice
5. GRE – DOC-CD
6. ODR – Doyle, Routing TCP/IP Vol 1
7. Filtering, redistribution, summarization and other advanced features – Doyle, Routing TCP/IP Vol 1
C. BGP
1. IBGP – Doyle, Routing TCP/IP Vol 2
2. EBGP – Doyle, Routing TCP/IP Vol 2
3. Filtering, redistribution, summarization, synchronization, attributes and other advanced features – Doyle, Routing TCP/IP Vol 2
D. IP and IOS Features
1. IP addressing – Doyle, Routing TCP/IP Vol 1
2. DHCP – Kozierok, TCP/IP Guide
3. HSRP - DOC-CD
4. IP services – TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols
5. IOS user interfaces – DOC-CD
6. System management – TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols
7. NAT- Doyle, Routing TCP/IP Vol 2
8. NTP – DOC-CD
9. SNMP – TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols
10. RMON – DOC-CD
11. Accounting – DOC-CD
12. SLA – DOC-CD
E. IP Multicast – Williamson, Developing IP Multicast Networks, Volume I and DOC-CD
1. PIM-SM, bi-directional PIM
2. MSDP
3. Multicast tools, source specific multicast
4. DVMRP
5. Anycast
F. QoS Odom, Cisco QOS Exam Certification Guide
1. Quality of service solutions
2. Classification
3. Congestion management, congestion avoidance
4. Policing and shaping
5. Signaling
6. Link efficiency mechanisms
7. Modular QoS command line
G. Security – Deal, Cisco Router Firewall Security
1. AAA
2. Security server protocols
3. Traffic filtering and firewalls
4. Access lists
5. Routing protocols security, catalyst security
6. CBAC
7. Other security features
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Some corrections:
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DHCP – TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols
WRS’s book is outdated a bit (but still the greatest!) and focused mailnly on BOOTP (chapter 16). So there’s only a reference to RFC1541 at the end of the chapter. I’d suggest Kozierok’s “TCP/IP Guide” for DHCP:
http://tcpipguide.com/free/t_TCPIPDynamicHostConfigurationProtocolDHCP.htm
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NAT- Doyle, Routing TCP/IP Vol 1
It’s volume 2.
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Thanks Anthony…………
It will help me out as pointers for all topics.
Now I can easily find the topics at the best place.
Looks like I really need to get “TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols”!
Uri – thanks – I will update right now.
Thanks for this list Anthony…
i really feel sorry, not knowing this post before. Thanks again.
I think addition for MPLS and some other new topics need to be added.