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Books are usually reviewed separately, however both of these publications are inexorably linked as study and lab texts for Cisco's Netacademy WAN Technologies course (part 4 of the CCNA Network Academy curriculum). Of course, they are meant to be used in concert with the online content but can also be independent of it and thus can be said to "stand alone". Still, there are two different authors involved and information is presented differently. What if one book is excellent but the other...well...isnt? Here's where we find out.
After overcoming a wave of nostalgia from my own Networking Academy experiences, I recalled that it's just about impossible to evaluate these books separately...at least it is if you want to preserve the purpose for which they were written. Whenever you are in the Companion Guide and come across a note such as Lab 1-2 Configuring PAT (1.1.4b), you are compelled (well, I am anyway) to pick up the Lab Guide and look up the reference. I felt rather "incomplete" not being logged into a router so had to be satisfied with reconstructing the experience from memory.
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