Cisco Certified DevNet Associate DEVASC 200-901 Official Cert Guide 1st Edition

More theory than hands on.

Had everything I needed to know

Good

I read this book cover to cover, and was very unimpressed. Especially when compared to the other official cert guides (e.g., the CCNA guide), this book seemed hastily cobbled together without very much attention given to cohesiveness or, in some instances, accuracy!I would recommend any one of a dozen other resources for studying for this exam rather than wasting your money on this book (Google Nick Russo's study guides!). It was as if an editor was never consulted before rushing it out the door. The bulk of the text seems to have been written by someone whose first language was not English, and makes for very awkward reading.The worst part about this book, by far, is that it woefully fails to prepare you for the DevAsc exam--including and especially the bonus content! The practice exams that come with this book are about 60% as difficult as the actual exam, and give you a very false sense of what you will encounter on test day.Given the subject matter of this book (half of it is not Cisco-specific, and the other half can mostly be found online for free on Cisco's own websites!), even taking into consideration the updates and errata published online, it just doesn't really make sense to buy this book.

This is by far the worst cert guide I’ve ever used OR the exam is the worst written. There is a huge amount of material tested that is not even remotely covered in this guide. As well as clear disconnects from the exam. When referring to Bash scripting the guide literally say “This is outside the scope of the exam” but the blueprint has numerous bash script read as well as the examination has bash script questions. If you subscribe to safari don’t bother with this dude video course either it’s actually worse than the book.