CCNP ISCW Official Exam Certification Guide [Hardcover]

Brian Morgan (Author), Neil Lovering (Author)

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ISBN-10: 158720150X | ISBN-13: 978-1587201509 | Publication Date: July 28, 2007

CCNP ISCW Official Exam Certification Guide

 

• Master all 642-825 exam topics with the official study guide
• Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes
• Review key concepts with foundation summaries
• Practice with hundreds of exam questions on the CD-ROM

 

Brian Morgan, CCIE® No. 4865

Neil Lovering, CCIE No. 1772

 

CCNP ISCW Official Exam Certification Guide is a best of breed Cisco® exam study guide that focuses specifically on the objectives for the Implementing Secure Converged Wide Area Networks exam (642-825 ISCW). Successfully passing the ISCW 642-825 exam certifies that you have the knowledge and skills necessary to secure and expand the reach of an enterprise network to teleworkers and remote sites with focus on securing remote access and VPN client configuration.

 

CCNP ISCW Official Exam Certification Guide follows a logical organization of the CCNP® ISCW exam objectives. Material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing your retention and recall of exam topics. You can organize your exam preparation through the use of the consistent features in these chapters. “Do I Know This Already?” quizzes open each chapter and allow you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section. Exam topic lists and concise Foundation Summary information make referencing easy and give you a quick refresher whenever you need it. Challenging chapter-ending review questions help you assess your knowledge and reinforce key concepts.

 

The companion CD-ROM contains a powerful testing engine that allows you to focus on individual topic areas or take complete, timed exams. The assessment engine also tracks your performance and provides feedback on a topic-by-topic basis, presenting question-by-question remediation to the text. Well regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, and challenging review questions and exercises, this book helps you master the concepts and techniques that can enable you to succeed on the exam the first time.

 

Brian Morgan, CCIE® No. 4865, is a consulting systems engineer for Cisco, specializing in Unified Communications technologies. He services a number of Fortune 500 companies in architectural, design, and support roles. With more than 15 years in the networking industry, he served as director of engineering for a large telecommunications company, is a certified Cisco instructor teaching at all levels, from basic routing and switching to CCIE lab preparation, and spent a number of years with IBM Network Services serving many of IBM’s largest clients. He is a former member of the ATM Forum and a long-time member of the IEEE.

 

Neil Lovering, CCIE No. 1772, works as a design consultant for Cisco. Neil has been with Cisco for more than three years and works on large-scale government networking solutions projects. Prior to Cisco, Neil was a network consultant and instructor for more than eight years and worked on various routing, switching, dialup, and security projects for many customers all over North America.

 

This official study guide helps you master all the topics on the CCNP ISCW exam, including

• The Cisco hierarchical network model as it pertains to the WAN

• Teleworker configuration and access with broadband technologies
• Frame mode MPLS
• IPsec VPN implementations
• Cisco device hardening
• Cisco IOS® Firewall features
• Cisco IOS Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) features

 

Companion CD-ROM

The CD-ROM contains an electronic copy of the book and more than 200 practice questions for the ISCW exam, which are all available in study mode, test mode, and flash card format.

 

This volume is part of the Exam Certification Guide Series from Cisco Press®. Books in this series provide officially developed exam preparation materials that offer assessment, review, and practice to help Cisco Career Certification candidates identify weaknesses, concentrate their study efforts, and enhance their confidence as exam day nears.

 

Category: Cisco Certification

Covers: CCNP ISCW Exam 642-825

 

 

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About the Author

Brian Morgan, CCIE No. 4865, is a consulting systems engineer for Cisco, specializing in Unified Communications technologies. He services a number of Fortune 500 companies in architectural, design, and support roles. With more than 15 years in the networking industry, he has served as director of engineering for a large telecommunications company, is a certified Cisco instructor teaching at all levels, from basic routing and switching to CCIE lab preparation, and spent a number of years with IBM Network Services serving many of IBM’s largest clients. He is a former member of the ATM Forum and a long-time member of the IEEE.

 

Neil Lovering , CCIE No. 1772, works as a design consultant for Cisco. Neil has been with Cisco for more than three years and works on large-scale government networking solutions projects. Prior to Cisco, Neil was a network consultant and instructor for more than eight years and worked on various routing, switching, remote connectivity, and security projects for many customers all over North America.

 

Product Details

• Hardcover: 696 pages
• Publisher: Cisco Press (July 28, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 158720150X
• ISBN-13: 978-1587201509
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.7 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent but not highly insightful, November 28, 2007

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B. Wilson (Lincoln, NE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: CCNP ISCW Official Exam Certification Guide (Hardcover)

I'm studying to pass the ISCW exam using this book and several other resources. While it's a decent technical overview, I have noticed some things in regards to the chapter on MPLS architecture that seem puzzling.

Page 196 discusses MPLS and presents it basically another routing protocol, with labels assigned to each IP network prefix. While this is one implementation of MPLS, it's not really an accurate way to describe this technology. I'm disappointed that two CCIE authors and their tech reviewer haven't better illustrated the functions of protocols for readers.

There are other, similar minor issues with how the book presents technical material relating to some topics. Mainly the issues revolve around how the authors fail to clearly explain some of the functionality of protocols being dealt with. Generally, though, the config samples are flawless examples of how to get the job done.

This being a Cisco press book I do hold it to a higher standard because they invented networking. They also have several highly qualified people who wrote the book, which leads me to expect a clean, accurate technical explanation.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Read but..., October 25, 2007

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This review is from: CCNP ISCW Official Exam Certification Guide (Hardcover)

This book, on my first read was boring. But as I go on with various chapters, it becomes enjoyable. The VPN chapters are great because it was well explained in detail. Although some chapter questions are too easy to answer, it becomes a preparatory factor in taking the exam. One more thing on this book: If you want to pass the ISCW exam, consider reading other references in complement of this book. The topics on DSL and MPLS are briefly discussed so expect you'll be craving for more detailed explanations. Overall, it's a recommended book.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Better than nothing, but not enough for the exam, August 24, 2009

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Jeremy NeeDLE (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: CCNP ISCW Official Exam Certification Guide (Hardcover)

As I've found to be typical w/ Cisco's Exam Certification series, there simply is not enough information to use this as your only study source. I took the exam last week and passed: 915/1000, however it was only because I used TWO other study sources [the lab book and CBT videos]. Cable and DSL theory was explained well, however the PPPoE configurations given were INCORRECT. I have an 871-K9 running 12.4(9)T4 using ATT DSL and thus requires PPPoE w/ PAP authentication. "pppoe enable" will NOT work, it is an incomplete command. You need "pppoe enable group global" in order for the connection to form. Furthermore you need the command "ppp authentication pap CALLIN." [They neglected the CALLIN portion of the command.] MPLS coverage was well explained HOWEVER they FAIL to discuss VRF and the syntax to configure this. NOTE: I had -three- questions on this subject. I liked the IPSec section, and site-to-site IMO is probably the most important subject on the exam for real-world application; they did a decent job explaining IPSec operations and CLI/SDM configuration. The IPSec GRE section left a little to be desired. As far as the test is concerned I personally had a "scenario" based question. Be sure you can troubleshoot GRE configurations, typically by looking for mismatched source/destination IP's or subnet masks. The section covering the various security features [router hardening, AAA, ACL's, CBAC/IOS Firewall, and IPS] were covered well enough to pass the exam; however in the real world you'll probably need to dig a little deeper. I suggest going to Cisco's website and downloading the 12.4T IOS Security Configuration Guide. Cisco no longer uses the "inspect" syntax for CBAC, but has switched to zone-based firewalls. Futhermore 128mb.sdf and 256mb.sdf are no longer used or updated. They have switched to the v.5 signature format. THE BOTTOM LINE: if you want to pass this test you'll need to also purchase the ISCW Lab Portfolio [excellent book by the way]. Be comfortable looking through IPSec and Firewall configs on SDM, and configuring DSL & AAA access. You should know the config commands cold.