Good *Recent* CCDA study material?

I've read Ciso Press books and I've been CCDP since last monday:)

Use CiscoPress it's good source.

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The Cisco Press book is inaccurate in regards to this particular exam....unfortunately.

cisco press worked for me

CCDA or CCDP? There's no explicit VoIP in CCDA.

[and don't call it VoIP anyway. VoIP is just the way to move the voice packets over an IP network - Cisco calls the whole shebang of call managers and gateways etc "IP Communications" (IPC) or "IP Telephony" (IP Tel)].

I'm CCNP/CCDP and a couple of different sorts of specialists. The CCDP exam (ARCH) was the hardest exam - not because the material is difficult, but because there is so much of it, and (unlike all the other exams) its all technical presales rather than techical support. It was the only exam that took me two attempts (the first a 770, the second a 923. Pass mark was 776).

For DESGN (CCDA) I used the both the Cisco Press Certification and Preparation guides. The latter was more useful, but it was worth having both. I also read the SAFE blueprint. I bought Oppenheimer's "Top down Network Design" but hardly used it.

For ARCH, I used a heap of stuff to get that good pass on the second attempt:

- Knowledgenet ARCH notes, v1.1: I was lucky that a friend of mine had done the course and was able to lend me the class notes. However, they are less than comprehensive.

- Anything with "AVVID" and "Design Guide" off the Cisco web site. Note especially Video and Voice. Also read the AVVID blueprint. None of this stuff is dated too recently, but it seems to be basically current. Also search for "SRND", which is "Solution Reference Network Design" on cisco.com. This is where you'll pick up all the limits for the number of phones and the required BW etc, the different sorts of VPNs.

- Finally, go back through ALL your CCNA/CCNP material and pick out the bits that refer to capacity planning and design. This is especially important for BSCI. Know how all the routing protocols work, what they send to each other, which ones support dial-up, all the jargon for neighbors/peers/etc, and in what sorts of networks you'd choose OSPF, IGRP, EIGRP or IS-IS and why. Also make sure you understand the different sorts of Multicast trees and the protocols that go along with them and the benefits and limitations of each.

Good luck

i had VoIP specific questions on my ccda test, about 13months ago.

Thanks. That'll help.

I took the CCDA last summer and you are right there was quite a bit of VOIP stuff on their. It was actually very difficult VOIP inofrmation considering I had several cisco voice certifications at the time and the questions were new information. I had three sources none of which were complete. I used the Sybex book, global knowledge online course, and Cisco press book and still failed the test on my first attempt. It was the first certification test of any form I failed. It looks like there still isn't good material out there from what I see.