A primary text for intermediate level courses in Cisco certification and network support.CCNP Routing Exam Certification Guide offers a comprehensive coverage of the Cisco Routing Exam #640-503. The ONLY Cisco Systems-endorsed study guide, it covers all major topic areas found on the exam. The book will test students on their knowledge of advanced routing concepts and tasks through review and challenging self-assessment. Foundation Summary sections concisely outline major concepts for quick reference. Scenario-based exercises and chapter-ending review questions reinforce retention and recall of exam topics. Finally, unique practice questions on the companion CD enable candidates to build and take random sample tests, including selective testing by topic area. Progress tracking helps the reader identify his or her weak areas by displaying the incorrectly answered questions and providing a link to the chapter for additional study.
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The official study guide for the Cisco(r) CCNP and CCDP(r) Routing exam
Coverage of the CCNP and CCDP Routing exam topics enables you to identify and fill your knowledge gaps before the exam date. You'll learn about:
* Key routing information including classful and classless routing protocols, distance vector and link-state protocol operation, and the fields of the routing table
* Extending IP addresses using VLSMs and route summarization and configuring IP helper address to manage broadcasts
* Configuring OSPF in a single area and interconnecting multiple OSPF areas
* Configuring EIGRP, how EIGRP supports the use of VLSM and route summarization, and how EIGRP operates in an NBMA environment
* Configuring and implementing BGP in a scalable network, including how BGP policy-based routing works within an autonomous system, configuring route reflectors, BGP synchronization, BGP scalability, and prefix lists
* Optimizing routing update operation by controlling routing update traffic, configuring route redistribution, and configuring policy-based routing
CCNP Routing Exam Certification Guide is a comprehensive study tool for the CCNP/CCDP(r) Routing exam. This exam evaluates your ability to build scalable, routed Cisco internetworks. This book covers all the major topics on the Routing exam, enabling you to master the concepts and technologies upon which you will be tested, including extending IP addresses, routing principles, scalable routing protocols, managing traffic and access, and optimizing scalable internetworks.
Each chapter of CCNP Routing Exam Certification Guide focuses your study and tests your knowledge of the subjects through specially designed assessment and study features. "Do I Know This Already?" quizzes assess your knowledge and help you decide how much time you need to spend on each section within a chapter. The well-organized Foundation Topics sections detail all the exam topics you need to master. Each chapter includes a Foundation Summary section that highlights essential concepts for quick reference and study. Challenging chapter-ending review questions and exercises test your knowledge of the subject matter, reinforce key concepts, and provide you with the opportunity to apply what you've learned in the chapter. In addition, a final chapter of scenarios pulls together concepts from all the chapters to ensure you can apply your knowledge in a real-world environment. Finally, the companion CD-ROM's robust testing engine enables you to take practice exams that mimic the real testing environment, focus on particular topic areas, randomize answers for reusability, track your progress, and refer to electronic text for review.
CCNP Routing Exam Certification Guide is part of a recommended study program from Cisco Systems(r) that can include simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco(r) Learning Partners, hands-on experience, and self-study and exam preparation guides from Cisco Press. In order to find out more about instructor-led, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners, please visit cisco/go/training.
Companion CD-ROMThis companion CD-ROM contains a test bank with over 200 practice questions.
About the Author
Clare Gough, CCIE(r) certified No. 2893, CCSI(tm), has worked with the developers of the BSCN and ACRC courses and taught the first commercial offering of the ACRC course. Clare holds master's degrees in education and information systems. Over the past 14 years, she has developed and taught a variety of networking and internetworking courses throughout the world. Clare is the author of the Cisco Press title ACRC Exam Certification Guide.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Typos and poor examples make this hard to recommend,
By Erik Simonsen (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: CCNP Routing Exam Certification Guide (Hardcover)
I usually like Cisco Press books--they often seem to go into a lot of detail, much deeper than what the exam covers, and I like that. I think the details builds a more solid base for the workplace than just exam cramming to pass a test. As soon as I started reading this book, however, I realized that I had made a mistake. Nearly every example has an error in it. Even the few "working configuration" examples have so many errors that you will spend more time trying to figure out what the book is talking about than you will actually learning. Nearly 30% of all commands that have hyphens (access-list, passive-interface, etc) are written incorrectly in the book. Not only are they written incorrectly, but they are written inconsistently. I finished the book this morning and I have no idea which the command spellings are correct because they waiver back and forth. Granted, the CCNP exam probably won't ask questions on how to spell a command, but the CCIE lab exam will, and I won't want to have to start studying again from scratch for CCIE. The quizes are almost useless for the same reason. There are quiz answers that directly contradict the content of the book. There are also many quiz answers that just don't make any sense. For example:Q2-1.2 You noticed the access list commands have been changed: How do you remedy the situation: Router(config-if)#access list 110 permit 10.10.10.10 255.255.255.255 eq smtp Answer: the problem is that the source and destination have been transposed. The list should read as follows: Router(config-if)#access list 110 permit 10.10.10.10 255.255.255.255 eq smtp First you notice that access-list is missing a hyphen. Next, you see that the question and the answer have the exact same text. Finally, the description is bunk: The first list didn't specify a destination at all.. there was no transposition. Even more ridiculous is that if you could see the example diagram, you would see that there are no ip addresses on the diagram. Even if there were a source and destiation address, you couldn't know that they were transposed because you wouldn't know which was which. The book isn't great even aside from the typos. Compared to the other books out there, there are fewer configuration examples and figures are poorly written, making it hard to determine what you are supposed to learn from them. Furthermore, most of the command examples have no context. Every other book out there will show each command with the appropriate router prompt(config), (config-if), etc. Not only does this book not show them, it will show several commands--each belonging to a different config mode--one right after each other. If you were typing as written into a router, you'd get nowhere. I've had other computer books with typos . . . these books are so thick and so time-sensitive, that it would be impossible to not make any mistakes. But the errors in this book extend far beyond the example I've pointed out, and the book is nearly unreadable. The errors will leave you confused and distracted, and even if you make it to the end, you won't know what was right and what wasn't. I spent hours online figuring out which commands were correct and which weren't. Do not buy this book. It just isn't worth the pain.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
An Okay Book.,
By "globetrotter349" (california) - See all my reviews
This review is from: CCNP Routing Exam Certification Guide (Hardcover)
I rated it three stars because it did not live up to my expectations. I just took the routing exam and passed using this book as my sole study guide. The writing lacks humor unlike some of the american-authored technical books. I had to read some of the paragraphs several times just to understand it. Okay, I'll list down all the things I hate about this book: 1. There are quite a few mistakes. 2. The diagrams are not very accurate. 3. The commands in the example doesn't include the prompt. 4. It's too long.Given that it is long, the contents are still not enough for you to be able to answer all the questions in the exam. I guess you really have to have a hands-on experience of the routing protocols to get a higher score. But I think this book is still better than the Sybex book because it has more and better coverage of the exam topics. Also, Gough said in the book that Route Maps are not included in the exam, DON'T BELIEVE HER, it's there! I almost had a heart attack when i saw one question about it. I didn't pay much attention to Route maps because I believed in what the author said.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not worth the purchase.,
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This review is from: CCNP Routing Exam Certification Guide (Hardcover)
I'm quite disappointed with this book. I have been diligently reading it for the last week. At first, I noticed an abundance of typos. I just finished reading the OSPF chapters. Too much effort is wasted trying to figure out what the author is trying to say. The typos are now showing up in very critical areas. Information isn't consistent. After spending a very long time trying to understand the material, I realized that it was the authors presentation and typos that I was trying to work through not the actual material. Rather than waste anymore of my time, I'm going to purchase another book and start again.
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