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Thank you very much for your insight into the CCNA. This will prove to be helpful for those challenging the exam.
As for my own two cents, the two Cisco Press books from Stephen McQuerry (you can get INTRO and ICND in a single self-study "box") are excellent. If I were to have any gripe about it, it would be the fact that it does not come with a CD (as many certification books do). However with that said, at this very moment I'm using them myself, and have found them complimenting instruction by a Cisco Academy course to be invaluable. You may find portions of the INTRO book familiar if you have your Network+, however it goes into more depth.
While all of the topics stated above are very important and must all be studied thoroughly, I will mention a small tidbit. Master Your Subnetting. When you do subnetting in the exam you will not be given access to a calculator, and will have to do it all by hand. Don't touch a subnet calculator, not even once, during the course of your studies. You will be given scrap to write on during the exam, so do yourself a favour and lay out the binary with weighted columns marked. This way when you do the Base2 math, you'll save yourself a headache.