CCNA books?

[kalvindeane]

I'm currently enrolled on a CCNA course in a local college, using the Cisco Netacad to do it over 2 years. I'd like to have a book or two to help me with the course, I prefer them than reading off of a monitor. Recommendations are most welcome, there are so many different CCNA books around that I don't know which to choose!

 

[kalvindeane]

Two years? You can crack in two weeks if you work hard and are IT savvy, exams included. If not then a Month or so shouldn't be too hard for someone with basic IT knowledge.

There's plenty of books/CDs to chose from. Depends on your style of learning I guess?

I took the 2 year course as it's only 1 night a week, for 3.5 hours. I'm also doing a full time course in the day and have a part-time job working 15-25 hours a week. I thought I'd struggle with it but am I'm finding all of them pretty easy.

Thank you for the link Dist. I'm not sure what to make of the CCNA. The only people I know who have it/have heard of it work in the college, so I cant get an unbiased opinion of it from anyone. The course itself is very interesting, and I think that I'd love to be in networking. Though I can't imagine the CCNA holding a whole lot of value when looking for my first job in IT when it consists of only two books. Opinions anybody?

 

[kalvindeane]

It's around 70 weeks total, the lessons are meant to be 3.5 hours a week, but sometimes they're more like 2hours. We do indeed use packet tracer and are enrolled on the netacad. I've asked about a lab as we were meant to be having one set up in one of the unused rooms, but nothing has been done so far.