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. This is the eBook edition of the CCNP Security FIREWALL 642-618 Official Cert Guide. This eBook does not include the companion CD-ROM with practice exam that comes with the print edition. CCNP Security FIREWALL 642-618 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. CCNP Security FIREWALL 642-618 Official Cert Guide , focuses specifically on the objectives for the Cisco CCNP Security FIREWALL exam. Expert networking consultants Dave Hucaby, Dave Garneau, and Anthony Sequeira 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. 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 CCNP Security FIREWALL exam, CCNP Security FIREWALL 642-618 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.
David Hucaby, CCIE® No. 4594, is a lead network engineer for the University of Kentucky, where he works with healthcare networks based on the Cisco Catalyst, IP Telephony, PIX, and VPN product lines. David was one of the beta reviewers of the PIX version 7 Firewall operating system software.
Like most cisco books this was too very informative. Truth be told. This book is not full of best practices and recommended course of actions. This book is filled with all the possibilities that may or may not happen in real world production networks. However this book had gone into extreme details at places and made me start tear off my hair out of rage. LOL!!!
I wonder if cisco press books could become a little precise and more best practice oriented, just a little bit. If that could be the case than the people who opted for certification would feel more at home and learn the tried and tested way of securing and verifying a network.
A great experience! I had virtual ASA's to play with while studying for this and I really gave it my all! It was a really good time, as this really went over a lot of fundamental ideas and application. 5 out of 5 for a first policy based firewall book to read!
This is a great book for acquiring the 642-618 cert. I was successful in getting my cert and you should have no problems if you can find a way to stay awake and keep grinding through the pages.
Written in a very good way and full of a very good experience. It is not a must for the exam, you know what is needed for the exam, but it is very valuable for firewall experience.