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Oct 18 2009   6:09AM GMT

CCIE Routing and Switching Official Certification Guide to be released in November 2009



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
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I was just accessing the rough cuts for the Cisco CCIE Routing and Switching Official Certification Guide, 4th Edition. I had a great first impression. I had a chance to read “LAN Switching” part. It was a great firsthand experience. This segment is organized well and the approach is similar to CCNA, CCNP books, starts with a brief introduction and then the most useful section of Cisco Press Books “Do I Know This Already?” Quiz followed by “Foundation topics and “Foundation Summary”.

 

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The Cisco Press authors Wendell Odom, Rus Healy and Denise Donohue did a credible job; I liked the way they presented the topics, since I spent most of my time on Switching I really enjoyed the “LAN Switching” part. Though I am familiar with most of the things they were talking but it was great experience to refresh my info.

 

The CCIE Routing and Switching Official Certification Guide 4th Edition is to be released on 19th of November 2009 by Cisco Press, they are offering great discount do check Cisco Press web site for more details, but make sure you registered yourself to Cisco Press website to get more discount. Once the book released I will try to write a review on this book.

 

Sep 14 2009   9:16PM GMT

Review for the CCNP BSCI Official Exam Certification Guide, Fourth Edition



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
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I am always inspired by the Cisco Press books which are my only source for my career success. When it comes to certification study guides, Cisco Press leads from the front.  In this article I will try to review the CCNP BSCI Official Exam Certification Guide, Fourth Edition, this study guide is a first and final step towards your CCNP success.

 

As promised by Cisco Press the CCNP BSCI Official Exam Certification Guide, Fourth Edition, is indeed a best breed of Cisco® exam study guide which specifically focuses on the objective of CCNP BSCI 642-901 exam. The study guide comprises of over 600 pages divided into 21 chapters.  Which covers essential routing principles, EIGRP, OSPF and IS-IS in dept as well as basic BGP configuration.

 

The study guide has concentrated a bit more on Multicasting and multicast routing and the IPv6 is explained well but not in too dept.  The best part I liked about the CCNP BSCI Official Exam Certification Guide, Fourth Edition, is the Cisco IOS® routing features.

 

The CCNP BSCI Official Exam Certification Guide, Fourth Edition, comes with a companion CD from boson which consists of an electronics books and more than 200 practice questions which also included simulation-bases questions available in study mode, practice mode and flash card format.

 

Some of the features which I liked most in the CCNP BSCI Official Exam Certification Guide, Fourth Edition,   “Do I know this already?” quizzes and “Foundation Summaries” that start off each chapter. These allow the reader to assess what they already know about an upcoming section and what they need to focus on. The end-of-chapter “Q&A” will solidify any knowledge you have gained or need to review. Also the scenarios provided at the end of the chapters are worth from exam point of view.

 

Overall a good supplement for the exam, but the CCNP BSCI Official Exam Certification Guide, Fourth Edition, cannot be a sole resource for the exam. It’s always good to use the resources available at the Cisco learning websites.  Finally I would rate 4 out of 5 for this study guide. Better luck folks and hope to see you all passing the CCNP BSCI 642-901 exam at first attempt. 

 


Sep 5 2009   8:32PM GMT

Review for Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
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Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS is a book which aims at providing solutions that provide a high speed, low latency network and spanning tree protocol (STP) isolation between data centers based on Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS).

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The book makes interesting reading, especially as it covers in detail about the architecture design and configuration required to interconnect data centers as well as case studies to interconnect Data Centers.  This book is targeted to Systems professionals and System engineers who are into designing solutions for interconnecting data centers which ensures high availability Layer 2 connectivity and STP isolation.

The authors Nash Darukhanawalla and Patrice Bellagamba started the book with explaining the need for high availability of the Data Centers, explaining the concept of the high availability clusters, introduction to Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS), MPLS traffic engineering.

The authors’ present different flavors of data center interconnect solution using different combination of Spanning Tree modes, VLAN mapping as well other criteria’s along with complete configuration required at the  aggregation switches and provider edge routers.

The book is divided into 13 chapters, and it also deals with issues related to layer 2 bridging domains and provides guidance to extend VLANs using Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS). This book contains lot of reference network diagrams which can help the readers to understand the presented solutions in normal mode as well as in failover mode.

I found this book extremely readable and enjoyable and I would recommend this book to the folks who are interested in knowing more about the Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS). The book comes with lot of useful information which will definitely help the readers to get familiar with the Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) concepts and configuration steps required for interconnecting data centers.


Jul 8 2009   10:02AM GMT

Cisco Press releases “Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS”



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
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Cisco Press just released the book “Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS (Ensure Business Continuance on Virtualized Networks by Implementing Layer 2 Connectivity Across Layer 3)” . This book deals with the interconnection of Data Centers using VPLS . Virtualization techniques were developed to solve many problems with business continuance; however these solutions now pose severe network challenges and business continuance issues of their own. This book describes Cisco’s break-through solutions that evolve your network toward support of server virtualization techniques ensuring a highly-resilient network solution by implementing Layer 2 connectivity across Layer 3 network infrastructure using VPLS.

 

·         Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS (Ensure Business Continuance on Virtualized Networks by Implementing Layer 2 Connectivity Across Layer 3)
By Nash Darukhanawalla, Patrice Bellagamba.

·         Published by Cisco Press.

·         Series: Networking Technology.


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Jun 21 2009   6:11AM GMT

Following study materials will definitely help you to pass Cisco CCNA 640-802 Exams – Part 3



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
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Once you are done with the CCNA 640-802 Network Simulators , it’s a good idea to have more preparation and practice, if you are confident then don’t wait for anything just register yourself for the Cisco CCNA 640-802 exams and best of luck , yes you can do it.

If you think you need some more practice and brush up it’s always a good idea to follow your folks at the Cisco Learning Network , which is full of resources, with some practice exams, presentations and videos.

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For a General Overview of CCNA, View the Syllabus.

 

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Also CCNA 640-802 Cert Flash Cards Online can provide you some value added experience and confidence. The CCNA 640-802 Cert Flash Cards Online  is a online exam preparation tool consist of a custom flash card application loaded with over 300 total questions that test your skills and enhance retention of exam topics.

With this kind of vigorous practice and study nothing can stop you from achieving the Cisco CCNA 640-802 exams. More over you are preparing with the number one CCNA selling titles. Wish you the best and hopefully this will help you to pass the Cisco CCNA 640-802 exams


Jun 13 2009   5:38AM GMT

Following study materials will definitely help you to pass Cisco CCNA 640-802 Exams – Part 2



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
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In my first post  I was talking about the books required to pass Cisco CCNA 640-802 exams, once you are done with The CCNA Official Exam Certification Library (CCNA Exam 640-802), and with the boson Exsim practice exams which are always very helpful to understand the concepts as well as an idea about the questions you might face in the real Cisco CCNA 640-802 exams.

 

The best idea would be to practice the labs , in order to ease this Cisco Press came up with an excellent product CCENT 640-822 Network Simulator, which is good for the gentlemen who has no exposure to real routers and switches, it’s good for hands on experience.  Also I have reviewed the CCENT 640-822 Network Simulator which explains the details of labs included with screen shots as well.

Cisco Press will release the next part of the CCNA 640-802 Network Simulator on 24th of June 09. SO that you can practice well for the labs covered in the Cisco CCNA 640-802 exams.


Jun 5 2009   8:11AM GMT

Chance to win Cisco CCNA Portable Command Guide, 2e



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May 30 2009   9:30AM GMT

Following study materials will definitely help you to pass Cisco CCNA 640-802 Exams – Part 1



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
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You might be wondering what books or materials will be help full to pass the Cisco CCNA 640-802 exams. Cisco Network Academy is great but every one might be not able to attend the course and of course saving money especially during this economic slowdown is a great idea.

So I would suggest some books and materials which will help you to successfully pass the Cisco CCNA 640-802 exams. The only thing required is your determination and sincere efforts. The suggested materials are good for self study with simple networking background who knows the basics well.

The objective is just not only to pass the Cisco CCNA 640-802 exams but also to have a clear understanding of handling Cisco networking devices. Cisco Press always comes to my mind first ,as the books produced by Cisco Press are  good and always meets with objectives of the exams.

When it comes to the Cisco CCNA 640-802 exams following books are good and worth reading and practicing the exams.

The CCNA Official Exam Certification Library (CCNA Exam 640-802), 3rd Edition published by Cisco Press is worth reading and it does comes with the practice exams from Boson Exsim which are really great and very useful once you are done with the reading of  The CCNA Official Exam Certification Library (CCNA Exam 640-802), the author Wendell Odom has successfully authored books which are easily understandable even a newbie can understand the concepts easily.

By Wendell Odom.

Published by Cisco Press.

Series: Exam Certification Guide.

ISBN-10: 1-58720-183-6; ISBN-13: 978-1-58720-183-7; Published: Sep 4, 2007; Copyright 2008; Dimensions 7-3/8×9-1/8; Pages: 1475; Edition: 3rd.

 

You can purchase this book directly from Cisco Press as well from Amazon for 59.99 $ if you are a Cisco Press member you are entitled to get 30% discount wow. Do register yourself as a member of Cisco Press and enjoy the discounts.

These products not only help you learn the topics, but also include tools for knowledge review and exam preparation.

In up coming posts I will discuss other books and materials useful to pass Cisco CCNA 640-802 exams.