CCNP Official Exam Certification Library (5th Edition) [Hardcover]

Brent Stewart (Author), David Hucaby (Author), Brian Morgan (Author), Neil Lovering (Author), Amir Ranjbar (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 158720178X | ISBN-13: 978-1587201783 | Publication Date: August 11, 2007 | Edition: 5th

CCNP Official Exam Certification Library

Fifth Edition

 

CCNP Certification Library is a comprehensive review and practice package for the four Cisco® CCNP® exams: BSCI, BCMSN, ISCW, and ONT. The four books contained in this package, CCNP BSCI Official Exam Certification Guide, Fourth Edition, CCNP BCMSN Official Exam Certification Guide, Fourth Edition, CCNP ISCW Official Exam Certification Guide, and CCNP ONT Official Exam Certification Guide, present complete reviews and ample opportunities to test your knowledge of CCNP exam topics. These authorized Cisco CCNP study guides are written by CCIE® certified individuals and certified Cisco instructors, bringing years of teaching and consulting experience together in an ideal test preparation format.

 

CCNP BSCI Official Exam Certification Guide, Fourth Edition, helps you evaluate your ability to use advanced IP addressing and routing in implementing scalability for Cisco integrated services routers (ISRs) connected to LANs and WANs. This book covers all the topics on the CCNP BSCI exam 642-901. CCNP BCMSN Official Exam Certification Guide, Fourth Edition, covers all the topics on the CCNP BCMSN exam 642-812 and helps you understand how to implement scalable multilayer switched networks. CCNP ISCW Official Exam Certification Guide covers all the topics on the CCNP ISCW exam 642-825 and tests your ability to secure and expand the reach of an enterprise network to teleworkers and remote sites with a focus on securing remote access and VPN client configuration. CCNP ONT Official Exam Certification Guide covers all the topics on the CCNP ONT exam 642-845 and examines your ability to optimize and apply effective quality of service (QoS) techniques for converged networks.

 

Every chapter in each Cisco Press Official Exam Certification Guide focuses your study and tests your knowledge of the subject through specially designed assessment features. “Do I Know This Already?” quizzes assess your knowledge and help you decide how much time you need to spend on each section. The detailed Foundation Topics sections review the exam topics you will need to master. Each chapter includes a Foundation Summary section full of tables and concise reviews for quick reference. Challenging chapter-ending review questions and scenario-based exercises test your knowledge of the subject matter, reinforce key concepts, and ensure that you understand how all the technologies work together in a real-world environment. Finally, each book’s companion CD-ROM has a robust, customizable test engine that allows you to take practice exams that mimic the real testing environment. You can take a full sample exam, focus on particular topic areas, randomize answers for reusability, track your progress, examine your strengths and weaknesses, and refer to an electronic version of the book to review concepts.

 

CCNP Certification Library, Fifth Edition, is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco that can include simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners, please visit http://www.cisco.com/go/authorizedtraining.

 

Coverage of all four CCNP exams enables you to identify and fill your knowledge gap before the exam date.

• Prepare for the BSCI 642-901, BCMSN 642-812, ISCW 642-825, and ONT 642-845
• CCNP BCSI Official Exam Certification Guide, Fourth Edition, coverage includes essential routing principles for designing and managing scalable network; EIGRP, OSPF, and IS-IS functions and operations; basic BGP configuration; multicast routing; Cisco IOS routing features, including redistribution, route filtering, and DHCP; and IPv6 addressing and the transition from IPv4 to IPv6
• CCNP BCMSN Official Exam Certification Guide, Fourth Edition, coverage includes Spanning Tree Protocol concepts; virtual LAN (VLAN), VLAN trunking, and inter-VLAN routing; gateway redundancy technologies and protocols; wireless LAN topologies, components, connectivity, and standards; implementing a Cisco Unified Wireless Network; wireless client access; access layer voice concepts; and preventing and mitigating attacks against switched network security
• CCNP ISCW Official Exam Certification Guide coverage includes 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; and Cisco IOS Intrusion Prevention System(IPS) features
• CCNP ONT Official Exam Certification Guide coverage includes implementing a voice-over-IP (VoIP) network; implementing QoS on converged networks; specific IP QoS mechanisms for implementing the DiffServ QoS model; AutoQoS; wireless security; and basic wireless management

 

4 Companion CD-ROMs

The four companion CD-ROMs contain test banks with a total of more than 800 practice questions, including simulation-based questions, and the full text in electronic 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 Press–Cisco Certification

Covers: BSCI exam 642-901, BCMSN exam 642-812, ISCW exam 642-825, and ONT exam 642-845

 

$179.99 USA / $224.99 CAN

 

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Brent Stewart, CCNP, CCDP, is a certified Cisco Systems instructor and teaches at Global Knowledge.

 

David Hucaby, CCIE No. 4594, is a Lead Network Engineer for the University of Kentucky.

 

Brian Morgan, CCIE No. 4865, is a Director for Paranet Solutions, a nationwide consulting firm.

 

Neil Lovering, CCIE No. 1772, works as a systems engineer for Cisco Systems.

 

Amir Ranjbar, CCIE No. 8669, is an instructor and senior network architect for Global Knowledge, Cisco's largest training partner.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 2400 pages
• Publisher: Cisco Press; 5th edition (August 11, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 158720178X
• ISBN-13: 978-1587201783
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 8 x 7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #745,568 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cisco has the best exam cert. guides., October 24, 2007

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This review is from: CCNP Official Exam Certification Library (5th Edition) (Hardcover)

This is an excellent buy for getting the complete CCNP exam prep books. It would cost significantly more to buy them individually.

The books have been updated for the new tests. The BCMSN covers Wifi theory very well, but it is lacking in the "practical" aspect. I.e. the actual test had questions regarding more specific Cisco wireless products that the BCMSN book did not contain. The BSCI is quite good. I can not comment on the other two (ONT and ISCW because I have not read them yet.) However, the topics covered look really interesting.

What is especially great about these products is that they include some study software. I personally find this invaluable. This is the deciding factor between buying the Authorized Self-Study versus the Exam Prep books.

Some of the examples in the books have errors, which can cause some confusion. This is normal Cisco Press behavior. Also, some of the examples appear to differ from the text. Sadly, Cisco's product line is similar; some features are available in some versions, and not in others. So, this is kind of a real-world example of what Cisco products are like.

All in all, I really like these books. I find them much more useful than the competitors offerings; especially the exam prep software.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed after using Cisco Press CCNA set, March 16, 2009

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Justin Borchardt (Columbus, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: CCNP Official Exam Certification Library (5th Edition) (Hardcover)

A couple of years ago I bought the Cisco books for the CCNA exam, and using them and some spare Cisco equipment that I had collected, self-studied for and passed the CCNA without difficulty. I thought those books were excellent, the material was well presented, and the explanations clear and easy to follow. Having such great success with Cisco Press, I eagerly purchased the CCNP set.

I have been quite disappointed by the CCNP books so far. The main impression that I got was that they would probably be a great reference, if you already knew the material. If you're trying to just learn the material though, good luck. First of all, long parts of them read like they're written in management/marketing-speek. Lots of elaborate sounding twenty-dollar words describing just how fantastic Cisco's vision of the network is. You know, I understand we need to talk about architecture, reliability, and allocation of resources...but when we're droning on for page after page about the "network align[ing] itself with the business priorities of an orgainzation..." you've lost me. I'm a tech guy. I'm sure this is all important, but boil it down to the key points here please instead of drowning me in marketing BS.

The other thing that I've noticed is that the technical explanations in these books seem to be lacking. Often to introduce a new topic they will present a list of terms (defined using other terms in that list or other things that have not been explained), a couple of diagrams, and some textual explanation relying on other topics that they have not explained. Now this may be perfectly adequate to get a CCNP certification, I don't know, I haven't taken the test. But if you want to get a real solid understanding of the topics being discussed, it fails totally. I don't feel this set is going to prepare me for the CCNP, so I'm back on Amazon looking for other guides.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Material with Good Examples, November 26, 2008

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This review is from: CCNP Official Exam Certification Library (5th Edition) (Hardcover)

I received my CCNA last year using the Sybex/Lammle books. I was really worried when I found out there weren't any current Lammle books for the CCNP so I broke down and bought this set hoping it wouldn't bore me to tears with traditional technical manual writing. So far, so good, with the official exam library. The material is clearly written and explained with good examples and diagrams. I have taken 2 of the CCNP classes with the "official" Cisco curriculum and didn't get nearly as much detail as I have with this library. Don't be worried that the books are 4th edition, this is the 5th edition of the library and all the books are the most recent versions. The chapter-opening quizzes were very good at helping me decide what I needed to review when going back through the material a 2nd and 3rd (and 4th time). Don't forget to get your hands-on lab experience with free GNS3/Dynamips labs (routing only), they are a life saver and open-source to boot, check out gns3-labs.com. My only complaints are, first, there is no Kindle edition yet and, second, some of the tables are just page filler. For example, do I really need a 5.5" x 2" table showing that EIGRP is the only vendor proprietary routing protocol?

The CD has the PDF version of the book plus the test engine. It's a decent engine, I was hoping to find the pre-chapter assessments so I wouldn't have to flip to the appendix but I had to go to General - Book Questions then to Select Categories and remove all but the chapter I was interested in, then I had the questions I was looking for. It would have been easier to have a tab of pre-assessment questions with chapter buttons. The Study Saver was kind of fun, it turns your screen saver into an exam review. Not that I use a screen saver in this must-be-green age but handy anyway.

They may not have the humor and one on one style of Lammle books but they get you the information with examples and a friendly reading style.

One last thing to watch out for unrelated to the books themselves. I had them sent USPS media mail to save some cash, it took 11 days from TX to CO. It was a grueling wait.