CCNA study material overview.

This is a quick overview of all the material that I used to prepare for and pass the CCENT and CCNA Routing and Switching exams.

Below are images of the physical lab that I built using second hand equipment from Ebay and all the necessary cabling and tools needed to operate it.

Cost breakdown

Routers
1 x 2811 with WIC-1T, 256mb memory, 64mb CF	£35.00
1 x 2621xm 126mb RAM, 32mb flash	£15.00
Switches
2 x 3550 24 Port managed switches	£49.98
1 x 3750 24 port switch	£30.00
Miscellaneous
10-U Server Rack	£26
DCE/DTE DB60 Crossover Cable – 3FT	£4.99
USB to RS232 DB9 converter	£9.99
WIC-1T Serial WAN Interface Card	£6.50
512MB (2x256MB) DDR PC-2700	£0.99
256MB Generic compact flash memory	£3.99
Rollover console cable serial DB9 to RJ45	£3.40
WIC-1T Serial WAN Interface Card	£2.50
Additional set of Rack mount brackets	£7.00
15m of CAT 6 cabling	£5.49
RJ45 straight module adapters	£6.99
19 piece Professional Network repair tool kit	£14.99
Total	£222.81

 

Books

CCNA Routing and Switching Complete Study Guide – Todd Lammle
CCNA Routing and Switching Official Cert Guide Library – Wendell Odom
CCNA Switching Portable Command Guide – Scott Empson
* all the above is currently accessible from safaribooksonline.com

Video series

Cisco CCENT/CCNA ICND1 100-105 – Jeremy Cioara
Cisco CCNA ICND2 200-105 – Jeremy Cioara
CCNA Routing & Switching v3.0 – Keith Bogart
CCNA Routing and Switching 200-125 Complete Course – Kevin Wallace
Various material by Keith Barker on youtube

Software

GNS3
Packet Tracer
Minicom
Wireshark
Ubuntu
Virtualbox
Arch Linux

Other

Boson (source for practice exams)
Cisco Learning Network
/r/CCNA
/r/networking