CCNA Cyber Ops SECOPS 210-255 Official Cert Guide (Certification Guide)

If I write this review, would anyone try to break into my Amazon account to change it? Is anyone out here saying "Challenge Accepted"? I would be really impressed if someone updated my review unbeknownst to me. And I would give a $1000 reward to anyone that can do it.

This is a great supplement to studying for your CCNA Cyber Security Certification. Just make sure you are prepared to test before the Feb 23 deadline before the exam changes!

A must have for anyone that's studying for this cert! Thank you Omar!!! =)

Good reference to learn about cyberattacks, methods and steps followed by the Incident Response Team. It's a good help for the test, but looks for other material online to pass the test.

Good reference book

This book is the second half of the study guide for the CCNA CyberOps certification (and exams). Like the one before it, it is supposed to offer something to learn and apply to your work, to spark your interest in order to study more details on the subject and, most importantly, to help you pass the certification exam. However, this book fails miserably in all aspects (the first one in the series was a bit more helpful in the exam part). Like the one before it, it is full of errors, fragments, scattered and repeating information, even marginal language. Having attended the exam, I can add that it is also a bad study guide, as the Q&A and the exam practices that it includes are much easier than the exam (and also full of errors). The two books could have easily been one book, as the second book is very small, it is largely consumed by tables and it repeats several subjects from the first book. I seems as if they split the books and the exams for monetary reasons. This book is the classic proof that being well educated (or well certified) does not mean that a writer can write a good book. In this book's case though, I doubt that the writer is even an educated engineer. There are many "gems" of "engineering" in this book, but I'll give just one extreme example: in pg. 205 it is stated: "Network throughput is typically measured in bandwidth and delays are identified as latency". I rest my case.

I dislike this book in every aspect. It's poorly structured, feels devoid of meaningful content and is ultimately just badly written. Not only is it short, but I'm sure it could be made even shorter if you got rid of sentences and entire paragraphs and tables that don't convey any useful information. It's as if some student had read a few documents, jotted down a series of bullet points of the kind that plague bad PowerPoint presentations, strung them together into a text, divided them up into short chapters and handed them in. Especially coming from Wendell Odom's CCNA books - WOW, what an unbelievable plunge in quality. I'm VERY unhappy with this book.

I'm a book learner, so I read these and passed the exams when I was going for this certification.

all good

Passed my exam with this book.

Nothing wrong with it.

Ok so firstly, it says on here the book is 500 pages...it's not. Including the glossary, answers to the Q&S's it's only just over 300 pages. Just like what the others have said, the two books could have easily be combined into one. Cisco clearly have done this as a money maker..