Only a third of all candidates taking the CCIE exam pass the first time. Beat the odds with Cisco CCIE Study Guide, Second Edition. The first edition of this guide from Cisco expert Roosevelt Giles was a record-breaking bestseller.

Now it's updated and revised to keep you on top of new exam requirements in WAN, remote connectivity, voice and data material and more. Covering the entire exam, it's packed with new Cisco implementations and design examples, and hundreds of new questions and answers. You also get an interactive CD-ROM with simulated testing and scenario-based configurations.

Areas covered include:

• Ethernet/IEEE 802.3
• Token Ring
• FDDI
• High Speed Serial
• Point-to-Point Protocol
• ISDN
• Synchronous Data Link Control and derivatives
• X.25
• Frame Relay
• SMDS
• Bridging basics
• Data link layer switching
• The Cisco switch family
• ATM
• Communication technologies
• A digital network architecture overview
• TCP/IP architecture
• OSPF
• BGP
• OSI routing
• SNA
• Cisco IOS
• SNMP
• Performance and configuration management
• Cisco Works Security
• And more