Enter to win a Cisco Press book

This month's book giveaway is CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Certification Guide, 3rd Edition by Wendell Odom, Rus Healy, Naren Mehta (a $89.99 value).  We have 15 copies of the book to give away, free. Just answer the easy trivia questions below and enter to win. Deadline for entries: Jul7 31, 2008. 

Question to win: Figure 1.1 of the chapter excerpt of CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Certification Guide features RJ-45 Pinouts with what kind of cabling? (Hint: Answer can be found here, in the text next to Figure 1.1)

How to enter to win: Answer the above trivia question correctly, e-mail your answer to Cisco Subnet ciscosubnet@nww.com, by July 31, 2008, and your entry will be entered into a drawing.In the e-mail, please include the answer to the question above, your name, a U.S. mailing address, job title, and your daytime telephone number. Please write: "CCNA Preparation Library book competition" in the subject of your e-mail. Every participant to the competition will receive a special Network World code for 35% off your purchase at Ciscopress.com.

Full competition rules below.

Extras: 

* Read a free chapter: Chapter 1: Ethernet basics

* Read author Wendell Odom's Cisco Subnet blog. 

* Read Rus Healy special one-month guest blog exclusively for Cisco Subnet.

* See also this month's cool giveaway from a Cisco Learning Partner.

Go to Cisco Subnet for more Cisco news, discussion forums, blogs, security alerts, book giveaways, and more.

Competition rules:

1. No purchase necessary.

2. Network World, Inc., will begin accepting e-mail entries on the day each Author Expert book giveaway question is described on Cisco Subnet. One entry per individual, per book.

3. To enter by e-mail, participants must respond to the Cisco Press book giveaway question by midnight, July 31, 2008. E-mail your answer to this month's trivia question, along with your name, e-mail address, and a U.S. mailing address to Cisco Subnet ciscosubnet@nww.com. In the subject line of your e-mail write "CCIE Routing and Switching book competition". No entries will be acknowledged or returned, and all entries become the property of Network World. Network World is not responsible for lost, late, illegible, incomplete or misdirected entries. All such entries will be disqualified.

4. The Author Expert book giveaway competition closes at midnight, July 31, 2008. Fifteen winners of the "CCIE Routing and Switching book competition" will be picked at random from the entries with the correct answers. Winners will be notified after the close of the competition at a date determined by Network World. All winners notified must RSVP by the date indicated in the e-mail sent by Network World. Failure to do so will result in forfeiture of the Prize(s). Answers to the trivia questions will be published on Cisco Subnet, along with the names of the winners.

5. The odds of winning are determined by the number of eligible entries received.

6. PRIZE 1: Fifteen (15) readers per copy of "CCIE Routing and Switching book competition" by by Wendell Odom, Rus Healy, Naren Mehta  with a list price of $89.99.

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