CCNP Security Secure 642-637 Official Cert Guide

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.

CCNP Security SECURE 642-637 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 CCNP Security SECURE 642-637 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

CCNP Security SECURE 642-637 Official Cert Guide focuses specifically on the objectives for the CCNP Security SECURE exam. Senior networking consultants Sean Wilkins and Trey Smith 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, 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 CCNP Security SECURE exam, including:

Network security threats and foundation protection
Switched data plane security
802.1X and identity-based networking services
Cisco IOS routed data plane security
Cisco IOS control plane security
Cisco IOS management plane security
NAT
Zone-based firewalls
IOS intrusion prevention system
Cisco IOS site-to-site security solutions
IPsec VPNs, dynamic multipoint VPNs, and GET VPNs
SSL VPNs and EZVPN

CCNP Security SECURE 642-637 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 CCNP Security SECURE 642-637 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 CCNP Security study is the CCNP Security SECURE 642-637 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

Customer Reviews:

Where to begin?

By David Thompson - January 5, 2012

I knew this was going to be a rough read when the very first sentence of Chapter 1 was a grammatical nightmare, but since it's technical material I set aside my reservations about the quality of the writing and focussed on the technical merits. Sadly, only disappointment lay in that direction as well. Serious and obvious technical errors abound - as an example, the most recent one I read showed a sample configuration which included an access list where the author mistakenly entered a subnet mask rather than a wildcard mask. While the statement is still technically syntactically valid, it would have a very different effect than was described - a clear indication that neither of the authors nor either of the technical reviewers bothered doing anything as basic as actually *testing* the configurations they wrote up prior to publishing. This one is merely an example - additional technical errors can be found in multiple places.

Overall, the book reads as if written by... read more

Should be much better

By Simon - December 1, 2011

Like for first reviewer, I am currently using this book towards by certification exam and find it poorly written and mistake-prone. To properly understand the subject matter and be certain of the accuracy of the information being read, you will have to constantly research other information on the internet. I find myself regularly scouring the Cisco.com support pages for additional information, to explain topics better or deal with mistakes in the book. Should be of a much higher standard.

*** I have since finished this book and while I was hopeful that it would improve as I continued sadly it did not. Without even attempting to find mistakes in the book I was constantly presented with them. While most were typos there were still many technical errors. The amount of typos, though in themselves relatively easy to correct, only made me less confident in the quality of technical material I was reading. One of the most embarrassing errors I found was when doing the "Do I Know... read more

A Poor Work

By Koko - November 20, 2011

I am currently using this book to prepare for the 642-637 exam. I think this book was poorly written. There are so many errors, both technical an non-technical. There are flaws that should not pass through a technical review and remain uncorrected. Yet they did. This makes one to wonder as to what the technical review is all about then. I'll advise anyone who is using this book as an exam prep tool to also use Cisco's documentation on its website. The authors and technical reviewer need to revisit this material.