Experienced Admin requires Cisco help - where do I start please?

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Hi
Its been a while. Hiya all!

I'm 6yrs into my IT career, in which I regularly study Microsoft and have also started looking at my second vmware exams. However I urgently need to learn cisco. I have broad networking knowledge from my positions in the past, and from college.

What study guides and books can anyone recommend as a first place to get pretty much everything I need to pass the routing and switching exam. Self study is for me, and I like to jump in at the deep end!

thanks everyone!
matt