Book description
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
Table of contents
- Copyright
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgments
- Icons Used in This Book
- Command Syntax Conventions
- Foreword
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Introduction
- Goals and Methods
- Who Should Read This Book?
- Strategies for Exam Preparation
- Pedagogical Approach
- How This Book Can Help You Pass the CCNP ISCW Exam
- How to Use This Book to Pass the Exam
- One Final Word of Advice
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I. Remote Connectivity Best Practices
- 1. Describing Network Requirements
- 2. Topologies for Teleworker Connectivity
- 3. Using Cable to Connect to a Central Site
- 4. Using DSL to Connect to a Central Site
- 5. Configuring DSL Access with PPPoE
- 6. Configuring DSL Access with PPPoA
- 7. Verifying and Troubleshooting ADSL Configurations
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II. Implementing Frame Mode MPLS
- 8. The MPLS Conceptual Model
- 9. MPLS Architecture
- 10. Configuring Frame Mode MPLS
- 11. MPLS VPN Technologies
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III. IPsec VPNs
- 12. IPsec Overview
- 13. Site-to-Site VPN Operations
- 14. GRE Tunneling over IPsec
- 15. IPsec High Availability Options
- 16. Configuring Cisco Easy VPN
- 17. Implementing the Cisco VPN Client
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IV. Device Hardening
- 18. Cisco Device Hardening
- 19. Securing Administrative Access
- 20. Using AAA to Scale Access Control
- 21. Cisco IOS Threat Defense Features
- 22. Implementing Cisco IOS Firewalls
- 23. Implementing Cisco IDS and IPS
- A. Answers to the “Do I Know This Already?” Quizzes and Q&A Sections
Product information
- Title: CCNP ISCW Official Exam Certification Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2007
- Publisher(s): Cisco Press
- ISBN: 9781587201509
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