STOP Buying IT Certification Books - CCNA | CCNP | A+ | Network+

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[Music] [Music] hey guys welcome back to network chuck now why should you stop buying certification books I mean a certification books they're they're pretty expensive right I mean the CCAA book what is that like forty bucks if you watch your CC and pee they're like 40 bucks apiece and then like they're kind of heavy right like they're hard to lug around like if you're like me and you move around a lot you got kids and you're studying different places it's not easy to carry around like a massive book with you right and then to top it all off the book is only as good as long as the exam is active right I mean the exam expires or renew z' then that book I mean yeah it has good information in it but if you want to resell it no one's gonna buy a book for an exam that's expired they're gonna want to sit for the new exam and they're gonna want to get that new exam book so just stop don't buy another certification book now now hold on I know what you're thinking let me pump the brakes for a second Chuck you always tell us to get certification books and yeah you're right you're right so let me let me backtrack a little bit I love certification books I mean I really do I use them for every certification in fact I always tell people there are three things you need to successfully prepare for your certification exam no matter what it is CCNA + security + I need a great video course whether it's CBT Nuggets or a unity course then you need a good lab yeah you gotta be able to practice this stuff whether using packet tracer gns3 or a physical lab you got to have a good lab to reinforce those topics and then you need a good certification book okay so now you're telling us that certification books are awesome but you're telling us not to buy them how does that work okay so I got you here now I found this tool about six months ago I should have found it five years ago it's called Safari Books Online now this thing it's like the Netflix for certification books okay what is Safari Books Online let me show you it's a subscription service let's go to real quick now before I even get into how cool this is let me show you the price just so you got this down 400 for a year I'm not paying that but $39 for my that's about the price of one CCNA book but instead of getting one book you get all the books can I just show you real quick how many CCNA books I have let me let me take you through a few here let me search for CCNA and hold on let me change the books I'll get to the media part in a second no not videos books so the 31 days before your CCNA that's an awesome book highly recommend that comes with it you can use it whenever you want see seen a quick reference if you need the heck oh baby have cyber ops cyber ops is is huge right now buzzword right now look how many pages we got here even my buddy Anthony squares stuff isn't here look at that now I know this is a popular one what about lammle he's the awesome trainer whoo look at that todd lammle is here too okay what if you're not doing your CCNA or what if you just finished you moving on well okay what about CC and P do they have CCP books uh yeah and let me let me jump into one of the books just so you got a feel for what it looks like let's jump into the 31 days of four years CCNA thing here book and just take a look at how it feels start reading now and there you have it I mean I'm in the book I'm a table of contents and there you have it I mean it's right there you can highlight add a note I mean it's it's all there no what if what if you're studying through your A+ we got that what about security plus you got that network plus kappa 2 and then whatever else your heart desires really like you know one of my favorites python i just talked about raspberry pi's look at that they have all kinds of stuff on kali linux now let me jump into the media part so if you saw what I did earlier at searching for CCNA and I specified books but but look they have some video training that comes with it too that's also part of that $40 a month so I always recommend buying a book but if you can just pay $39 a month for all the books and also some pretty good video train to supplement what you already have that's a killer value I didn't hesitate to buy this and not and also the other cool part is that it's an app on your phone too so you can save all of these offline and just jump into them and there it all is see I know it's not that much different from like buying a digital copy like on Kindle or something but but when you have all the books on your phone whenever you need them you can't beat that so have you ever found yourself like wondering what's the best CCNA book or what's the best CCP book like what which one's the best to prepare and you'll do your research you know and you'll have to pick one right because the books are not cheap with Safari Books Online pick all of them if you want you have unlimited books you can grab all the books I so wish I would have found this resource a lot sooner so that's why I'm telling you guys about this I think it's awesome I never want to buy another certification book again because I don't have to worry about you know throwing my books in my backpack I've got it all in my lap or even even my cell phone here you can download them offline and you've got your resources it's it's killer man and I know I know guys like the some people like the feel of a physical book you like to hold it in your hand and you like to smell the pages or something I don't know and you like to use physical highlighters and tabs and things like that okay fine I get it but come on we're in the digital age now guys use an iPad use a user phone use a laptop I love physical books too I'm in the same camp but the convenience and the value of Safari Books Online I'm sorry I can't buy another book I can't I just can't do it so if I peaked your interest link below check it out Safari books online I think they do a 7-day free trial so just try it out and like I said I've been using this for the last six months I'm a paying user of this I haven't bought a certification book since so again check it out link below or you can go to Network Chuck com forward slash books where I list all my favorite books which really is all on this website that's it go there well anyways guys that's about it I wanted to include this quick tip this week about a wonderful tool that I wished I would have known about ages ago and I wanted to put that in your hands because it's it's awesome especially if you're just always going always learning like you should be and always trying to get that next certification this this thing's great and plus if you're like if you're an admin or an engineer at a company odds are you're not only gonna be doing routing and switching things or you're not only going to be doing windows things or a plus or security plus stuff you might have to open a book just to find out information on it on a task you can get it either way for me it's like having a massive library of technical resources in my pocket on my laptop wherever I go I can pop it up and read I like I said I use it all the time I'm not gonna tell you to buy something that hasn't already offered me a ton of value well anyways guys that's about it if you haven't already subscribe why aren't you subscribed come on join the team let's get certified and like this video share it whatever all those things you're supposed to do oh and let me know below what your what you're working on like are you working on a certification did you recently get certified did you get certified this year last year let me know about that that's awesome well that's about it I'll catch you guys later [Music]