CCDA 640-864: Official Cert Guide - Hardcover

Bruno, Anthony; Jordan, Steve

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1587142570 ISBN 13: 9781587142574

Publisher: Cisco Systems, 2011

Synopsis

Trust the best selling Official Cert Guide series from Cisco Press to help you learn, prepare, and practice for exam success. They are built with the objective of providing assessment, review, and practice to help ensure you are fully prepared for your certification exam.

 

CCDA 640-864 Official Cert Guide presents you with an organized test preparation routine through the use of proven series elements and techniques. “Do I Know This Already?” quizzes open each chapter and enable you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section. Exam topic lists make referencing easy. Chapter-ending Exam Preparation Tasks help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly.

• Master Cisco CCDA 640-864 exam topics
• Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes
• Review key concepts with exam preparation tasks
• Practice with realistic exam questions on the CD-ROM

CCDA 640-864 Official Cert Guide, focuses specifically on the objectives for the Cisco CCDA DESGN exam. Expert networking consultants Anthony Bruno and Steve Jordan share preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills. Material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing your understanding and retention of exam topics.

 

The companion CD-ROM contains a powerful Pearson IT Certification Practice Test engine that enables you to focus on individual topic areas or take a complete, timed exam. The assessment engine also tracks your performance and provides feedback on a module-by-module basis, laying out a complete assessment of your knowledge to help you focus your study where it is needed most.

 

Well-regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, comprehensive design scenarios, and challenging review questions and exercises, this official study guide helps you master the concepts and techniques that will enable you to succeed on the exam the first time.

 

The official study guide helps you master all the topics on the CCDA DESGN exam, including:

• Network design methodology
• Network structure models
• Enterprise LAN and data center design
• Enterprise network virtualization
• Wireless LAN design
• WAN technologies and design
• IPv4 and IPv6
• RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP
• Route summarization and route filtering
• Security solutions
• Voice and video design
• Network management protocols

 

CCDA 640-864 Official Cert Guide is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit www.cisco.com/go/authorizedtraining.

 

The print edition of the CCDA 640-864 Official Cert Guide contains a free, complete practice exam.

 

Pearson IT Certification Practice Test minimum system requirements:

Windows XP (SP3), Windows Vista (SP2), or Windows 7;

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 Client;

Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0;

Pentium class 1GHz processor (or equivalent);

512 MB RAM;

650 MB disc space plus 50 MB for each downloaded practice exam

 

Also available from Cisco Press for Cisco CCDA study is the CCDA 640-864 Official Cert Guide Premium Edition eBook and Practice Test. This digital-only certification preparation product combines an eBook with enhanced Pearson IT Certification Practice Test.

 

This integrated learning package:

• Allows you to focus on individual topic areas or take complete, timed exams
• Includes direct links from each question to detailed tutorials to help you understand the concepts behind the questions
• Provides unique sets of exam-realistic practice questions
• Tracks your performance and provides feedback on a module-by-module basis, laying out a complete assessment of your knowledge to help you focus your study where it is needed most

 

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About the Author

Anthony Bruno, CCIE No. 2738, is a senior principal consultant with BT with more than 20 years of experience in the internetworking field. Previously, he worked for International Network Services, Lucent Technologies, and as a captain in the U.S. Air Force. His other network certifications include CCDP, CCVP, CCSP, Cisco Data Center Network Infrastructure Specialist, Cisco Security Solutions & Design Specialist, JNCIS-ER, Project+, ITILv3 Foundation, and CWNA. He has consulted for many enterprise and service provider customers in the design, implementation, and optimization of large-scale data and IP telephony networks. Anthony leads architecture and design teams in building nextgeneration networks for his customers. He completed his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering at the University of Missouri–Rolla in 1994 and his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico–Mayaguez in 1990. He is also a part-time instructor for the University of Phoenix–Online, teaching networking courses.

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Steve Jordan, CCIEx3 #11293, has nearly two decades of experience in the field of networking and currently specializes in Data Center technologies. For the last 10 years, Steve has worked with many Enterprise and Service Provider customers in both pre-sales and post-sales engineering and architecture roles along with working at several Cisco Gold Partners. Steve is a 10-Year triple CCIE in the tracks of Routing & Switching (2003), Storage Networking (2013) and Data Center (2013) and is currently working towards achieving the CCDE certification. Steve lives in Houston, TX with his wife and 3 sons. When he is not teaching CCIE DC bootcamps, Steve can be found traveling to new places, finding great food, and listening to live music. You can contact Steve Jordan at sjordan@ine.com, follow him on Twitter @ccie11293, or find him helping others in the INE’s IEOC Community Forum.

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Steve was also the coauthor for the previous edition of the CCDA Exam Certification Guide, Third Edition.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cisco Systems
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1587142570
• ISBN 13: 9781587142574
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 721