CCNP Official Exam Certification Library (5th Edition)

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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.

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

What Customers Say About CCNP Official Exam Certification Library (5th Edition):

Just a good material for self-study,obviously and clear stuff.Great pleasure to read these books.

Having such great success with Cisco Press, I eagerly purchased the CCNP set.I have been quite disappointed by the CCNP books so far. I'm a tech guy. 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. First of all, long parts of them read like they're written in management/marketing-speek. But if you want to get a real solid understanding of the topics being discussed, it fails totally. The main impression that I got was that they would probably be a great reference, if you already knew the material. 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.

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. I thought those books were excellent, the material was well presented, and the explanations clear and easy to follow. 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. If you're trying to just learn the material though, good luck. Lots of elaborate sounding twenty-dollar words describing just how fantastic Cisco's vision of the network is. Now this may be perfectly adequate to get a CCNP certification, I don't know, I haven't taken the test. I don't feel this set is going to prepare me for the CCNP, so I'm back on Amazon looking for other guides.

It's a large part of the examination, per the Cisco exam guidelines. This series was the only publication released soon after the new CCNP exams were implemented. Cisco is renowned for making new versions of examinations without having published any material relating to the exams. The text gives a good review of STP but should certainly go into more depth.The texts on ONT and BSCI were outstanding in coverage of all of the segments of the exam materials. Fortunately, the texts were outstanding.Each book thoroughly covered the relevant materials, with one exception. I thought that the BCMSN text should have covered and placed more importance on STP. Also, the texts were very useful in real-world environments. The material was easy to read and easy to understand even though it discussed highly technical material.

My only complaints are, first, there is no Kindle edition yet and, second, some of the tables are just page filler. 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. 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. It would have been easier to have a tab of pre-assessment questions with chapter buttons.

The material is clearly written and explained with good examples and diagrams. I received my CCNA last year using the Sybex/Lammle books. 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. 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. 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.

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. I had them sent USPS media mail to save some cash, it took 11 days from TX to CO. So far, so good, with the official exam library. The Study Saver was kind of fun, it turns your screen saver into an exam review. 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. Not that I use a screen saver in this must-be-green age but handy anyway. It was a grueling wait.

The BCSI book looks really good. All information well explained with good examples. The summaries and Q&A s are helpful to reinforce the knowledge.