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CCNA ICND2 Official Exam Certification Guide (CCNA Exams 640-816 and 640-802) (2nd Edition) (Exam Certification Guide)

Wendell Odom

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CCNA ICND2 Official Exam Certification Guide

Second Edition

• Master ICND2 640-816 and CCNA 640-802 exam topics with the official study guide
• Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes
• Review key concepts with Exam Preparation Tasks
• Practice with hundreds of exam questions on the CD-ROM

Wendell Odom, CCIE® No. 1624

CCNA ICND2 Official Exam Certification Guide, Second Edition, is a best of breed Cisco® exam study guide that focuses specifically on the objectives for the CCNA® ICND2 exam. This fully updated edition presents complete reviews and a more challenging and realistic exam preparation experience.

Senior instructor and best-selling author Wendell Odom shares preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills. The material is presented in a concise manner, focused on increasing your understanding of exam topics and preparing you for the numerous challenges the exams present.

CCNA ICND2 Official Exam Certification Guide, Second Edition, 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 allow you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section. Chapter-ending Exam Preparation Tasks sections help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly and help increase your speed in answering questions, a difficult hurdle many exam candidates face on the new exams. A Final Preparation chapter guides you through tools and resources to help you craft your final study plan. Special troubleshooting sections help you master the complex scenarios you will face on the exam.

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 chapter-by-chapter basis, presenting question-by-question remediation to the text. The bonus DVD contains more than 60 minutes of personal video mentoring from the author focused mainly on bringing difficult subnetting concepts to life.

Well-regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, and challenging practice questions, this book provides you with more detailed information and more realistic practice exercises than any other CCNA study guide, enabling you to succeed on the exam the first time.

CCNA ICND2 Official Exam Certification Guide, Second Edition, 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.

Wendell Odom, CCIE® No. 1624, has been in the networking industry since 1981. He currently teaches QoS, MPLS, and CCNA courses for Skyline Advanced Technology Services (www.skyline-ats.com). Wendell has worked as a network engineer, consultant, systems engineer, and instructor and course developer, and has taught authorized Cisco courses for the majority of the last 14 years.

The official study guide helps you master all the topics on the CCNA ICND2 exam, including

• Virtual LANs and Spanning Tree Protocol
• Static and connected routes
• VLSM and route summarization
• IP access control lists
• OSPF and EIGRP configuration
• Point-to-point WANs
• Frame Relay
• VPNs
• Network address translation
• IPv6
• Troubleshooting

Companion CD-ROM

The CD-ROM contains an electronic copy of the book and 200 practice questions for the ICND2 and full CCNA exams, including simulation and testlet questions, all available in study mode and test mode.

BONUS DVD

The DVD contains more than 60 minutes of personal instruction from the author!

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.

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MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-526): Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Windows-Based Client Development

Matthew A. Stoecker, Steven J. Stein, Tony Northrup

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Announcing an all-new MCTS Training Kit designed to help maximize your performance on Exam 70-526, the exam for the new Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: .NET Framework 2.0 Windows Applications certification. This kit packs the tools and features exam candidates want most—including in-depth, self-paced training based on final exam content; rigorous, objective-by-objective review; exam tips from expert, exam-certified authors; and a robust testing suite. It also provides real-world scenarios, case study examples, and troubleshooting labs for the skills and expertise you can apply to the job.

Focusing on Windows-based client development, this official study guide covers topics such as creating a UI for a Windows Forms application; implementing data-bound controls; managing the print process; enhancing usability; implementing asynchronous programming techniques; developing Windows Forms controls; and configuring and deploying applications.

Ace your exam preparation and ramp up quickly on using the .NET Framework for Windows-based client development by working at your own pace through the lessons, hands-on exercises, and practice tests. The CD features 425 practice questions and a best-of-class test engine with pre-assessment and post-assessment capabilities. Choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests, or focus on discrete objectives or chapters, and get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers?including pointers back to the book for further study. You also get a 90-day evaluation version of Microsoft Visual Studio® 2005 software and a 15 percent exam discount voucher—making this kit an exceptional value and a great career investment.

CEH: Official Certified Ethical Hacker Review Guide: Exam 312-50

Kimberly Graves

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Sybex STAMP of Approval 1 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I recently took my CEH and passed, so from first hand experience with "using" this book as exam prep: I sat around with a group of friends and to help us all study we each read a chapter's practice questions and took turns answering. After the very first chapter, a pattern started to emerge. The incorrectness of these questions and answers were so obvious that we started to preface certain questions with "This question has the Sybex CEH stamp of approval", as we were uncertain at the time who to lay the blame on, Sybex or the CEH in general. After the preface was said, everyone in the group knew to answer with the most absurd answer option, and usually got it correct (according to the book). As stated above in the other 1-star comment, I have filled this book in a bown cardboard grave, hopefully never to hurt anyone else. I may bring it out for laughs once in a while now that I think of it. You have been warned.

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Prepare for the CEH certification exam with this official review guide and learn how to identify security risks to networks and computers. This easy-to-use guide is organized by exam objectives for quick review so you’ll be able to get the serious preparation you need for the challenging Certified Ethical Hacker certification exam 312-50. As the only review guide officially endorsed by EC-Council, this concise book covers all of the exam objectives and includes a CD with a host of additional study tools.

Web Security Testing Cookbook

Paco Hope, Ben Walther

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Among the tests you perform on web applications, security testing is perhaps the most important, yet it's often the most neglected. The recipes in the Web Security Testing Cookbook demonstrate how developers and testers can check for the most common web security issues, while conducting unit tests, regression tests, or exploratory tests. Unlike ad hoc security assessments, these recipes are repeatable, concise, and systematic-perfect for integrating into your regular test suite. Recipes cover the basics from observing messages between clients and servers to multi-phase tests that script the login and execution of web application features. By the end of the book, you'll be able to build tests pinpointed at Ajax functions, as well as large multi-step tests for the usual suspects: cross-site scripting and injection attacks. This book helps you: Obtain, install, and configure useful-and free-security testing tools Understand how your application communicates with users, so you can better simulate attacks in your tests Choose from many different methods that simulate common attacks such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and manipulating hidden form fields Make your tests repeatable by using the scripts and examples in the recipes as starting points for automated tests

Don't live in dread of the midnight phone call telling you that your site has been hacked. With Web Security Testing Cookbook and the free tools used in the book's examples, you can incorporate security coverage into your test suite, and sleep in peace.

Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World.

Bruce Schneier

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In "Beyond Fear," Bruce Schneier invites us to take a critical look at not just the threats to our security, but the ways in which we're encouraged to think about security by law enforcement agencies, businesses of all shapes and sizes, and our national governments and militaries. Schneier believes we all can and should be better security consumers, and that the trade-offs we make in the name of security - in terms of cash outlays, taxes, inconvenience, and diminished freedoms - should be part of an ongoing negotiation in our personal, professional, and civic lives, and the subject of an open and informed national discussion.

With a well-deserved reputation for original and sometimes iconoclastic thought, Schneier has a lot to say that is provocative, counter-intuitive, and just plain good sense. He explains in detail, for example, why we need to design security systems that don't just work well, but fail well, and why secrecy on the part of government often undermines security. A skeptic of much that's promised by highly touted technologies like biometrics, Schneier is also a refreshingly positive, problem-solving force in the often self-dramatizing and fear-mongering world of security pundits.

Schneier helps the reader to understand the issues at stake, and how to best come to one's own conclusions, including the vast infrastructure we already have in place, and the vaster systems--some useful, others useless or worse--that we're being asked to submit to and pay for.

Microsoft Flight Simulator as a Training Aid: A Guide for Pilots, Instructors, and Virtual Aviators

Bruce Williams

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Learn On The Cheap! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I have wanted to get my pilots license since I was 13. I could never get the cash.

The Flight Sim Pilot Training on Flight Sim 2004 and Flight Sim X is OK but not great.

This book is so incredibly awesome when it comes to how you can use Flight Sim to lean how to fly and the things that you shouldn't. (Let's just say the computer program is a little "optimistic")

I have talked to so many trainers who told me dozens of stories about people who got their sport or private pilot license in a much shorter time and cheaper because of this book.

And my local flight school instructor told me the more I can learn in Flight Sim the better pilot I will be because when he goes over the stuff I need to know he will be reminding me of the things I already know and filling in everything else.

He says all his pilots who have used Flight Sim saved from $1000 to $3000.

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PC-based simulations, though touted by many in the aviation community as excellent flight training aids, are not being used to their full potential. This guide and the accompanying CD illustrate how to get the most out of Microsoft® Flight Simulator with general suggestions, specific advice, and practical tools. Student pilots can use the comprehensive information to review specific concepts and prepare themselves for formal flight instruction, while certified pilots can upgrade their navigation skills, learn about advanced aircraft and procedures, and complement their real-world flying with additional hours in the virtual skies. The materials are equally suitable for flight instructors looking for new tools to use in ground school classes and pre- and post-flight briefings and virtual aviation hobbyists will welcome the in-depth information on flying in the real world.

Microsoft Office Specialist: Excel 2003 Study Guide

Linda F. Johnson

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Validate your expertise and get the attention of employers with Microsoft Office Specialist certification. This comprehensive guide is what you need to prepare for certification in Excel 2003, both the Specialist and Expert levels.

Carefully planned by a seasoned Microsoft Office Specialist instructor, this invaluable study guide uses real-world scenarios to teach the full range of Excel 2003 skills you need-not only to prepare for the certification exams, but also to increase your ability and productivity in the workplace. Covering twenty-four Specialist exam objectives and thirty-three Expert exam objectives, the book progresses through the functions and features of Excel software. Even entry-level Excel users can rapidly build their skills.

Excel 2003 Specialist Certification Skill Sets
* Creating Data and Content
* Analyzing Data
* Formatting Data and Content
* Collaborating
* Managing Workbooks

Excel 2003 Expert Certification Skill Sets
* Organizing and Analyzing Data
* Formatting Data and Content
* Collaborating
* Managing Data and Workbooks
* Customizing Excel

Plus, you'll find additional career preparation tools, including:
* Solutions for real-world scenarios
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* Full glossary of terms

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CompTIA A+ Certification Workbook For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

Faithe Wempen

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Becoming a certified computer technician can take your career to new heights. Unfortunately, sitting down to take the A+ Certification exam can do the same for your blood pressure—but don’t get your cables in a knot!

A+ Certification Workbook for Dummies gives you everything you need to sharpen your skills and boost your confidence as you prepare for the A+ Certification exam. Reflecting the tone and content of the actual test, this friendly workbook includes hundreds of hands-on exercises, scores of quizzes covering the terms and specifications you’ll need to memorize, and tons of troubleshooting “story problems” that require critical thinking and application of theory.

With A+ Certification Workbook for Dummies, you’ll get practical guidance and helpful tips on answering questions and solving problems in all areas covered on the real exam, including:

• Protecting yourself and your PC
• Motherboards and CPUs
• Memory, BIOS, and CMOS
• Disk storage
• Power supplies and portable PCs
• Ports, cables, and connectors
• Monitors and adapters
• Printers
• Multimedia and input devices

Plus, you’ll get hands-on experience with:

• Installing and upgrading Windows
• Files, folders, and command prompts
• Running and configuring applications
• System resources and device drivers
• Optimizing and maintaining Windows
• Understanding the system files and boot sequences
• Troubleshooting hardware, bootstrap, startup, and application problems

Bonus CD-ROM includes example files and a test engine with additional review questions!

A+ Certification Workbook for Dummies gives you everything you need to pass the A+ Certification Exam and prove you have what it takes to work in the competitive computer support industry.

PMP Project Management Professional Study Guide, Second Edition

Joseph Phillips

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Excellent PMP Exam Prep Study Guide 4 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

This book is the best PMP Exam Prep study guide I have found. It is packed with useful information, targeted directly at passing the PMP Certification exam. The practice exam questions are excellent, the explanation of the answers well written, and a reference to the PMBOK is included with each question. The book includes a CD with a full PMP exam (many similar books charge extra for this) and the ability to download a second exam for no additional charge. The book is much less expensive than others that offer not nearly as much. As a PMP certified project manager and instructor of PMP exam prep courses, I recommend it highly.

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A unique classroom-based approach for PMP exam preparation

This proven system for candidates wishing to certify their skills as Project Management Professionals delivers complete coverage of the PMP exam, hundreds of practice questions, and a CD-ROM that includes two electronic practice exams and an electronic copy of the book.

• Reflects the 2005 revision of the exam
• The only study guide to offer a classroom-based approach to exam preparation
• Updated to reflect the new PMBK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) and references all answer explanations directly to the PMBK

CCNA Video Mentor: (CCNA Exam 640-802) (Video Learning) (2nd Edition) (Video Mentor)

Wendell Odom

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CCNA Video Mentor

Second Edition

More than four hours of personal, visual instruction

CCNA 640-802

Wendell Odom, CCIE® No. 1624

CCNA Video Mentor is a unique video product that provides you with more than four hours of personal visual instruction from best-selling author and instructor Wendell Odom. In the 20 videos presented on the DVD, Wendell walks you through common Cisco® router and switch configuration topics. Designed to develop and enhance hands-on skills, each video guides you through essential configuration tasks for both the CCENT and CCNA® certification exams, including router and switch configuration, IP subnetting, RIP, OSPF, and EIGRP configuration, configuring VLANs, IPv6, PAT, PPP and CHAP, and access lists.

Lab Layout:

Each video lab presents suggested reading lists, detailed objectives, lab diagrams, and video captures. Audio instruction throughout offers tips and shortcuts that truly make learning easy.

Network Animation:

Animated network diagrams show you lab setup, device addressing, and how traffic flows through the network.

Command-Line Interface (CLI) Video:

Video screencasts of router and switch CLI demonstrate command entry, configuration techniques, and device response.

System Requirements:

• Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, or Vista
• Apple OS 9 or later
• Linux operating systems that have a web browser with Flash 7 or later plug-in
• Speakers or headphones
• Color display with a minimum 1024x768 resolution
• 1 GHz or faster CPU recommended
• DVD drive

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Covers: CCNA Exam 640-802

“The real-time examples and explanations were right on target with the subjects at hand.”

–Justin Loucks, Senior Network Engineer

“I was quite impressed with the teacher’s presentation and how well the dialog was thought out in advance.”

–John Ainsworth, Network Administrator

“Wendell did a great job…I think you have hit a home run with this one!”

–Bob Conner, Channel Account Manager

Wendell Odom, CCIE® No. 1624, splits time between writing books for Cisco Press and teaching authorized Cisco classes for Skyline ATS (www.skyline-ats.com). He has been involved with the networking industry for more than 25 years and was one of the first certified Cisco instructors. Additionally, Wendell has worked as a network engineer and as both a pre-sales and post-sales technical consultant. His current titles include the best-selling CCNA Official Exam Certification Library (CCNA Exam 640-802), Third Edition, as well as exam certification titles for the QoS and CCIE R/S written exams.

This product is part of the Cisco Press® Video Mentor Series. The video products in this series present expert training from industry-leading instructors and technologists. This dynamic learning environment combines animations, screencasts, and audio instruction to help users bridge the gap between conceptual knowledge and hands-on application.

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ICND1

Lab 1: Navigating a Router/Switch Command-Line Interface (Video Length: 12:50)

Lab 2: Router Configuration and Managing Configuration Files (Video Length: 12:15)

Lab 3: Switch Basics: Learning, Forwarding/Filtering, and Interface Settings(Video Length: 10:32)

Lab 4: Finding the Subnet Number (Video Length: 6:03)

Lab 5: Finding the Broadcast Address and Range of Addresses in a Subnet(Video Length: 8:44)

Lab 6: Finding All Subnets of a Network with Less Than 8 Subnet Bits (Video Length: 7:15)

Lab 7: IP Subnet Design and Implementation (Video Length: 15:13)

Lab 8: Static and Connected Routes (Video Length: 13:15)

Lab 9: RIP Configuration (Video Length: 13:54)

ICND2

Lab 1: Configuring VLANs (Video Length: 10:10)

Lab 2: VTP Servers and Clients (Video Length: 15:44)

Lab 3: RIP with Split Horizon, Route Poisoning, and Poison Reverse (Video Length: 12:22)

Lab 4: Single Area and Multi-area OSPF Configuration (Video Length: 18:02)

Lab 5: EIGRP Configuration and Operation (Video Length: 11:33)

Lab 6: Understanding EIGRP Metric Calculations (Video Length: 12:26)

Lab 7: NAT Overload (PAT) (Video Length: 13:27)

Lab 8: IPv6 Subnetting and Address Configuration (Video Length: 18:16)

Lab 9: PPP and CHAP Configuration (Video Length: 12:25)

Lab 10: Access Lists (Video Length: 9:32)

Lab 11: Access Lists II (Video Length: 10:43)