From: Tim (ccie2be@nyc.rr.com)
Date: Thu Jan 19 2006 - 14:34:03 GMT-3
Hi Bala,
For purposes of the lab, either book will do. I would go with the 2nd
edition though just because it probably has fewer typo's.
But, keep in mind, neither book was written to specifically address the QoS
requirements of the lab. These books were written to address the
requirements of the QoS exam.
The result is that there's a great deal of overlap but be sure to know,
practice configuring, and verifying QoS on the 3550's which isn't covered in
that much depth in Odom's book. This includes pretty much everything
covered in the QoS chapter of the 3550 config guide.
For 3550 QoS, I think the best resource is actually the 3550 config guide.
Believe it or not, it's actually readable and fairly well written compare to
most other Cisco documentation.
HTH, Tim
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From: swa n [mailto:swabha2003@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 11:34 AM
To: Tim
Subject: Clarification on QoS book
HI Tim,
How are you? Hope you are fine.
I came across 2 books by Wendall Odom on QoS:
1) Cisco
<http://www.net130.com/book/cisco/jc/sp/Cisco%20Press%20-%20IP%20Telephony%2
0Self-Study%20Cisco%20DQOS%20Exam%20Certification%20Guide(2004).rar> Press
- IP Telephony Self-Study Cisco DQOS Exam Certifi cation Guide(2004) and
2)Cisco Press - IP Telephony Self-Study Cisco QOS Exam Certification
Guide,Second Edition
So I am wondering are you referring to first book that you used for the
preparation?
Your clarification would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Bala
Tim <ccie2be@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
Nick,
Just in case you weren't aware, I thought I'd warn you about how difficult
the QoS portion of lab can be.
I had thoroughly studied all the printed QoS sources of info and I strongly
agree that the Wendall Odom book, DQoS, is the best book on the topic
although a couple other QoS Cisco Press titles are also very good.
However, you shouldn't expect those resources to be sufficient to prepare
you for that part of the lab. I know a Cisco Instructor who teaches QoS,
and, obviously knows QoS really well who still got a very low score for the
QoS portion of the lab. I also knew QoS extremely well but still scored
poorly in the QoS section before I passed the lab. So, trust me, when I
tell you you need to actually get a great deal of hands-on implementing QoS.
For that you can do a couple of things --
a) You can do the QoS portion of the various 3rd party practice labs
workbooks e.g. Internetwork Expert or Netmasters.
b) You can go through the Odom book and others and try every example,
make up your own problems, and make sure you know how to verify your config
is correct.
Also, make sure you don't overlook the legacy techniques such as custom
queueing, priority queueing, etc., as Cisco likes to keep all the ccie
candidates on their toes.
There's one other resource that you should use extensively -- The GS
archives. Over the past year, GS has benefited tremendously from the
participation of a few people that are brilliant in the area of QoS. So,
look for the posts of Simon Hart, Chris Lewis and Brian McGahan. There are
others but these 3 stand out. And, of course, make sure you read every post
from Scott Morris.
HTH, Tim
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