Implementing Cisco Collaboration Applications (CAPPS) Foundation Learning Guide (CCNP Collaboration Exam 300-085 CAPPS) (Foundation Learning Guides) 1st Edition

I am a big fan of Cisco Press books as they typically are of high quality. I am a CCNP certified engineer that has been dealing with this technology for 15+ years and bought this book purely as a quick reference towards the new exams as most of the other new exams don't have any books released yet. This book however is very poor. This book relates to a CCNP level exam and is not nearly technical enough to even get an understanding of the topics. It is very poorly organized. The sections are very broken up and short. The grammar and spelling are poor. It is a very difficult book to read, not because of the topics, but because of the way they approach them and the lack of editing. It actually looks more like an outline that a writer might build before filling in content. A lot of the lists aren't cascaded in a logical way and make absolutely no sense. I will stop here as I dont want to write a book on how poor this book is but it is definitely a black eye to the Cisco Press name.

Beware the usual Cisco cert issues... this book does not provide all the info needed to pass the exam. Cisco's certification program needs an overhaul.

excellent and worth the purchase.

Most of the chapters are not well written and illustrated

If you plan on writing after using only this book, even after years of experience with Cisco voice, you will fail. Poorly written, barely relevant, and sorely lacking in the material you'll actually see during the test.So, basically, a typical Cisco Press book.