Book Description:

At present, no available publication deals with Internet security from a Cisco perspective utilizing the Cisco Secure product family. Cisco Secure Internet Security Solutions covers the basics of Internet security and then concentrates on each member of the Cisco Secure product family, providing a rich explanation with examples of the preferred configurations required for securing Internet connections.Aimed at networking professionals responsible for securing the corporate connection to the Internet, this book starts by explaining the threats posed by the Internet and progresses to a complete working explanation of the Cisco Secure product family. The individual components of the Cisco Secure product family are discussed in detail with advice given on how to configure each individual component to meet system requirements. Cisco Secure PIX Firewall is covered in depth from an architectural point of view to provide a reference of the PIX commands and their use in the real world.

Book Description:

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.

CCNA Security 640-554 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 CCNA Security 640-554 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

CCNA Security 640-554 Official Cert Guide, focuses specifically on the objectives for the Cisco CCNA Security IINS exam. Expert networking professionals Keith Barker and Scott Morris 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.

Book Description:

Designing for Cisco Network Service Architectures (ARCH) Foundation Learning Guide, Fourth Edition

·         Learn about the Cisco modular enterprise architecture

·         Create highly available enterprise network designs

·         Develop optimum Layer 3 designs

·         Examine advanced WAN services design considerations

·         Evaluate data center design considerations

·         Design effective modern WAN and data center designs

·         Develop effective migration approaches to IPv6

·         Design resilient IP multicast networks

·         Create effective network security designs

Designing for Cisco Network Service Architectures (ARCH) Foundation Learning Guide , Fourth Edition, is a Cisco-authorized, self-paced learning tool for CCDP foundation learning. This book provides you with the knowledge needed to perform the conceptual, intermediate, and detailed design of a network infrastructure that supports desired network solutions over intelligent network services to achieve effective performance, scalability, and availability. This book presents concepts and examples necessary to design converged enterprise networks. You learn additional aspects of modular campus design, advanced routing designs, WAN service designs, enterprise data center design, IP multicast design, and security design. Advanced and modern network infrastructure solutions, such as virtual private networks (VPN), Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN), and Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI), are also covered.

Chapter-ending review questions illustrate and help solidify the concepts presented in the book.

Whether you are preparing for CCDP certification or CCDE certification, or simply want to gain a better understanding of designing scalable and reliable network architectures, you will benefit from the foundation information presented in this book.

Book Description:

Secure your CISSP certification!

If you’re a security professional seeking your CISSP certification, this book is a perfect way to prepare for the exam. Covering in detail all eight domains, the expert advice inside gives you the key information you’ll need to pass the exam. Plus, you’ll get tips on setting up a 60-day study plan, tips for exam day, and access to an online test bank of questions.

CISSP For Dummies is fully updated and reorganized to reflect upcoming changes (ISC)2 has made to the Common Body of Knowledge. Complete with access to an online test bank this book is the secret weapon you need to pass the exam and gain certification.

• Get key information for all eight exam domains
• Find test-taking and exam-day tips and tricks
• Benefit from access to free online practice questions and flash cards
• Prepare for the CISSP certification in 2018 and beyond

You’ve put in the time as a security professional—and now you can reach your long-term goal of CISSP certification.

Book Description:

31 Days Before Your CCNA Routing & Switching Exam  offers a friendly, practical way to understand the CCNA Routing & Switching certification process, commit to taking the ICND1 (100-105) and ICND2 (200-105) exams or the CCNA (200-125) exam, and finish your preparation using a variety of Primary and Supplemental study resources.

These fully updated CCNA exams test knowledge and skills needed to successfully deploy LAN switching, IPv4 and IPv6 routing, WANs, and infrastructure services; and to secure and manage modern network infrastructure.

Sign up for your exam(s) and use this book’s day-by-day guide and checklist to organize, prepare, and review. Each day in this guide breaks down an exam topic into a manageable bit of information to review using short summaries. Daily Study Resources sections provide quick references for locating more in-depth treatment within Primary and Supplemental resources.

This book’s features help you fit exam preparation into a busy schedule:

·         Visual tear-card calendar summarizing each day’s study topic

·         Checklist providing advice on preparation activities leading up to the exam

·         Descriptions of ICND1 (100-105), ICND2 (200-105), and CCNA (200-125) exam organization and sign-up processes

·         Strategies to prepare mentally, organizationally, and physically for exam day

·         Conversational tone to make study more enjoyable

Book Description:

CCIE-level Cisco routing and switching guide for every CCNP

Preparing for the CCIE Routing and Switching lab exam typically involves deep and lengthy study. But if you already possess the Cisco CCNP Routing and Switching certification, you already know much of what you’ll need to succeed on CCIE’s labs. This book will help you quickly bridge your remaining knowledge gaps and make the most of everything you already know.

CCIE Routing and Switching v5.1 Foundations addresses every segment of the CCIE R&S Version 5 blueprint, helping you focus your study where it will do the most good: intense hands-on practice to deepen your current knowledge and thorough explanations of theoretical topics you haven’t yet encountered.

Based on the author’s industry-recognized CCIE prep classes, it includes 40+ detailed labs for real gear and platform emulators; structured illustrations of protocol and feature operation; and topic-specific labs to drive the theory home. It includes a full lab walkthrough of a complex configuration reflective of the actual CCIE–ensuring that you thoroughly understand the technologies and interactions you’re reading about.

• Discover the physical topology for any network deployment
• Master Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) foundations and advanced features
• Deploy and optimize PPP and use its full set of capabilities
• Implement Dynamic Multipoint VPNs (DMVPNs) from start to finish
• Use IP Prefix lists in prefix filtration, packet filtering, and other applications
• Handle any RIPv2 deployment scenario n Implement EIGRP, including classical and named operation modes and interoperation
• Use advanced OSPF techniques, including route filtration, LSA operation, stub configurations, and update filtering
• Understand what happens when you perform redistribution, and manage problematic scenarios
• Manage complex BGP capabilities, including Adjacency State Machine
• Operate IPv6 in complex network environments, including DMVPN
• Focus on QoS mechanisms that CCIE still covers, including traffic marking, classification, policing, and shaping
• Deploy IPsec VPN solutions including GRE/IPSec tunnel mode, multi-site VPN technologies, and their encryption
• Implement multicasting in environments requiring end-to-end IPv4 and IPv6 transport
• Address operational and deployment issues involving MPLS VPNv4 tunnels

Book Description:

CCNP Routing and Switching Portable Command Guide

All ROUTE (300-101) and SWITCH (300-115) Commands in One Compact, Portable Resource

Preparing for the CCNP® ROUTE or CCNP SWITCH exam? Working as a network professional? Here are all the CCNP-level commands you’ll need, in one handy resource. The CCNP Routing and Switching Portable Command Guide is filled with valuable, easy-to-access information, and it’s portable enough to use whether you’re in the server room or the equipment closet.

This guide helps you memorize commands and concepts as you prepare to pass the CCNP ROUTE (300-101) or CCNP SWITCH (300-115) exams. It summarizes all CCNP certification-level Cisco IOS® Software commands, keywords, command arguments, and associated prompts, offering tips and examples for applying them in real-world environments. Throughout, configuration examples deepen your understanding of how these commands are used in actual network designs.

Whenever you’re researching routing or switching solutions, you won’t find a quicker, more useful offline resource.

–Logical “how-to” topic groupings inside the front and back covers provide one-stop research

–Compact size makes it easy to carry with you, wherever you go

–Helps you review important commands before taking the CCNP ROUTE or CCNP SWITCH certification exam

–“Create Your Own Journal” appendix with blank, lined pages enables you to personalize the book for your own needs

–“What Do You Want to Do?” chart inside front and back covers helps you to quickly reference specific tasks

Book Description:

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.

CCNA Cloud CLDFND 210-451 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 CCNA CLDFND 210-451exam topics
• Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes
• Review key concepts with exam preparation tasks
• Practice with realistic exam questions from the Companion Website

CCNA Cloud CLDFND 210-451 Official Cert Guide, focuses specifically on the objectives for the Cisco CCNA CLDFND exam. Leading data center network architect Gustavo A.A. Santana shares 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 Website 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 CCNA CLDFND exam, including:

• Cloud characteristics
• Cloud service models (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS)
• Cloud deployment (public, private, community, hybrid)
• Cisco Intercloud Solution
• Cloud Compute (Cisco UCS)
• Cloud Networking (DC network architectures, infrastructure virtualization)
• Cloud Storage basics (provisioning, access, concepts, devices, infrastructures)

Book Description:

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 200-310 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 allow 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 200-310 exam topics
• Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes
• Review key concepts with exam preparation tasks
• Practice with realistic exam questions

CCDA 200-310 Official Cert Guide focuses specifically on the objectives for the newest 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.

Your downloadable Pearson IT Certification Practice Test engine allows 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 allow you to succeed on the exam the first time.

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

• Design methodologies, including PBM, network characterization, and top-down/bottom-up approaches
• Design objectives: modularity, hierarchy, scalability, resilience, fault domains
• Addressing and routing protocols in existing networks
• Enterprise network design: campus, enterprise, and branch
• Expanding existing networks: wireless, security, collaboration, virtualization, programmability, data centers, and more

Book Description:

Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals

For many IT organizations, today’s greatest challenge is to drive more value, efficiency, and utilization from data centers. Virtualization is the best way to meet this challenge. Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals brings together the comprehensive knowledge Cisco professionals need to apply virtualization throughout their data center environments. Leading data center expert Gustavo A. A. Santana thoroughly explores all components  of an end-to-end data center virtualization solution, including networking, storage, servers, operating systems, application optimization, and security. Rather than focusing on a single product or technology, he explores product capabilities as interoperable design tools that can be combined and integrated with other solutions, including VMware vSphere. With the author’s guidance, you’ll learn how to define and implement highly-efficient architectures for new, expanded, or retrofit data center projects. By doing so, you can deliver agile application provisioning without purchasing unnecessary infrastructure, and establish a strong foundation for new cloud computing and IT-as-a-service initiatives. Throughout, Santana illuminates key theoretical concepts through realistic use cases, real-world designs, illustrative configuration examples, and verification outputs. Appendixes provide valuable reference information, including relevant Cisco data center products and CLI principles for IOS and NX-OS. With this approach, Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals will be an indispensable resource for anyone preparing for the CCNA Data Center, CCNP Data Center, or CCIE Data Center
certification exams.

Gustavo A. A. Santana, CCIE® No. 8806, is a Cisco Technical Solutions Architect working in enterprise and service provider data center projects that require deep integration across technology areas such as networking, application optimization, storage, and servers. He has more than 15 years of data center experience, and has led and coordinated a team of specialized Cisco engineers in Brazil. He holds two CCIE certifications (Routing & Switching and Storage Networking), and is a VMware Certified Professional (VCP) and SNIA Certified Storage Networking Expert (SCSN-E). A frequent speaker at Cisco and data center industry events, he blogs on data center virtualization at gustavoaasantana.net.

•  Learn how virtualization can transform and improve traditional data center network topologies
•  Understand the key characteristics and value of each data center virtualization technology
•  Walk through key decisions, and transform choices into architecture
•  Smoothly migrate existing data centers toward greater virtualization
•  Burst silos that have traditionally made data centers inefficient
•  Master foundational technologies such as VLANs, VRF, and virtual contexts
•  Use virtual PortChannel and FabricPath to overcome the limits of STP
•  Optimize cabling and network management with fabric extender (FEX) virtualized chassis
•  Extend Layer 2 domains to distant data center sites using MPLS and Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV)
•  Use VSANs to overcome Fibre Channel fabric challenges
•  Improve SAN data protection, environment isolation, and scalability
•  Consolidate I/O through Data Center Bridging and FCoE
•  Use virtualization to radically simplify server environments
•  Create server profiles that streamline “bare metal” server provisioning
•  “Transcend the rack” through virtualized networking based on Nexus 1000V and VM-FEX
•  Leverage opportunities to deploy virtual network services more efficiently
•  Evolve data center virtualization toward full-fledged private clouds

Book Description:

The complete guide to Cisco^® IWAN: features, benefits, planning, and deployment

Using Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN), businesses can deliver an uncompromised experience, security, and reliability to branch offices over any connection. Cisco IWAN simplifies WAN design, improves network responsiveness, and accelerates deployment of new services. Now, there’s an authoritative single-source guide to Cisco IWAN: all you need to understand it, design it, and deploy it for maximum value.

In Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN), leading Cisco experts cover all key IWAN technologies and components, addressing issues ranging from visibility and provisioning
to troubleshooting and optimization. They offer extensive practical guidance on migrating to IWAN from your existing WAN infrastructure.

This guide will be indispensable for all experienced network professionals who support WANs, are deploying Cisco IWAN solutions, or use related technologies such as DMVPN or PfR.

• Deploy Hybrid WAN connectivity to increase WAN capacity and improve application performance

• Overlay DMVPN on WAN transport to simplify operations, gain transport independence, and improve VPN scalability

• Secure DMVPN tunnels and IWAN routers

• Use Application Recognition to support QoS, Performance Routing (PfR), and application visibility

• Improve application delivery and WAN efficiency via PfR

• Monitor hub, transit, and branch sites, traffic classes, and channels

• Add application-level visibility and per-application monitoring to IWAN routers

• Overcome latency and bandwidth inefficiencies that limit application performance

• Use Cisco WAAS to customize each location’s optimizations, application accelerations, and virtualization

• Smoothly integrate Cisco WAAS into branch office network infrastructure

• Ensure appropriate WAN application responsiveness and experience

• Improve SaaS application performance with Direct Internet Access (DIA)

• Perform pre-migration tasks, and prepare your current WAN for IWAN

• Migrate current point-to-point and multipoint technologies to IWAN

Book Description:

CCNA Data Center DCICT 200-155 Official Cert Guide from Cisco Press allows you to succeed on the exam the first time and is the only self-study resource approved by Cisco. A team of leading Cisco data center experts share preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills.

This complete, official study package includes

• A test-preparation routine proven to help you pass the exam
• “Do I Know This Already`?” quizzes, which allows you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section
• Chapter-endi
• ng and part-ending exercises, which help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly
• The powerful Pearson IT Certification Practice Test software, complete with hundreds of well-reviewed, exam-realistic questions, customization options, and detailed performance reports
• Study plan suggestions and templates to help you organize and optimize your study time
• A final preparation chapter that guides you through tools and resources to help you craft your review and test-taking strategies

Well-regarded for its level of detail, study plans, assessment features, and challenging review questions and exercises, this official study guide helps you master the concepts and techniques that ensure your exam success.

The official study guide helps you master topics on the CCNA Data Center DCICT 200-155 exam, including

• Cisco data center concepts: Portchannel, virtual port-channel (vPC), FabricPath, data plane, control plane, management plane, role based access control, and more
• Data center unified fabric: FCoE, multihop, VIFs, FEX, and setup
• Data center virtualization: servers, devices, and Nexus 1000v, including setup and operations
• Cisco Unified Computing: concepts, discovery, connectivity, setup, and UCSM
• Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure, ACI logical model, and policy framework n Cloud Computing, services models, and the use of application programming interfaces (APIs)
• Cisco UCS Director and troubleshooting UCSD workflows

Book Description:

Cisco Data Center DCICN 200-150 Official Cert Guide from Cisco Press allows you to succeed on the exam the first time and is the only self-study resource approved by Cisco. Cisco Data Center experts Chad Hintz, Cesar Obediente, and Ozden Karakok share preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills.

This complete study package includes

• A test-preparation routine proven to help you pass the exam
• Do I Know This Already? quizzes, which allows you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section
• Chapter-ending exercises, which help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly
• The powerful Pearson IT Certification Practice Test software complete with hundreds of well-reviewed, exam-realistic questions customization options, and detailed performance reports
• A final preparation chapter, which guides you through tools and resources to help you craft your review and test-taking strategies
• Study plan suggestions and templates to help you organize and optimize your study time

Well-regarded for its level of detail, study plans, assessment features, challenging  review questions and exercises, this official study guide helps you master the concepts  and techniques that ensure your exam success.

The official study guide helps you master topics on the CCNA 200-150 exam, including the following:

• Nexus data center infrastructure and architecture
• Networking models, Ethernet LANs, and IPv4/IPv6 addressing/routing
• Data center Nexus switching and routing fundamentals
• Nexus switch installation and operation
• VLANs, trunking, STP, and Ethernet switching
• IPv4 and IPv6 subnetting
• IPv4 routing concepts, protocols, configuration, and access control
• Data center storage networking technologies and configurations

Book Description:

Learn, prepare, and practice for CCNA Cloud CLDADM 210-455 exam success with this Official Cert Guide from Pearson IT Certification, a leader in IT certification.

• Master CCNA Cloud (CLDADM) exam 210-455 exam topics
• Assess your knowledge with chapter-ending quizzes
• Review key concepts with exam preparation tasks
• Practice with realistic exam questions

CCNA Cloud CLDADM 210-455 Official Cert Guide is a best-of-breed exam study guide. Cisco cloud experts Chris Jackson, Hank Preston, and Steve Wasko 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 book presents you with an organized test-preparation routine through the use of proven series elements and techniques. Exam topic lists make referencing easy. Chapter-ending Exam Preparation Tasks help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly. Review questions help you assess your knowledge, and a final preparation chapter guides you through tools and resources to help you craft your final study plan.

The companion website contains the powerful Pearson IT Certification Practice Test engine, complete with hundreds of exam-realistic questions. The assessment engine offers you a wealth of customization options and reporting features, 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 study guide helps you master the concepts and techniques that will enable you to succeed on the exam the first time.

The study guide helps you master all the topics on the CLDADM exam, including

• Cloud operating models, journeys, and roadmaps
• Cisco cloud automation and orchestration suites
• Cloud administration and operations: managing users, groups, and virtual machines
• Automating cloud infrastructure with UCS Director
• Building service catalogs and user portals
• Deploying virtual application containers
• Chargeback, billing, and reporting
• Performance and capacity management
• Cloud health monitoring and maintenance
• Cloud troubleshooting

Book Description:

Here are all the CCNA-level Routing and Switching commands you need in one condensed, portable resource. CCNA Routing and Switching Portable Command Guide is filled with valuable, easy-to-access information–and it’s portable enough to use whether you’re in the server room or the equipment closet.

The guide summarizes all CCNA certification-level Cisco IOS Software commands, keywords, command arguments, and associated prompts, providing you with tips and examples of how to apply the commands to real-world scenarios. Throughout, configuration examples give you a better understanding of how these commands are used in simple network designs.

This book has been completely updated to cover all topics in the new ICND1 100-105, ICND2 200-105, and CCNA 200-125 exams. Use this quick reference resource to help you memorize commands and concepts as you work to pass the CCNA Routing and Switching certification exam. Coverage includes

Network Fundamentals: Subnetting, VLSM, route summarization, cables/connections, CLI

LAN Switching: Switch configuration, VLANs, VLAN trunking protocol, inter-VLAN communication, STP, EtherChannel

Routing (IPv4/IPv6): Router configuration, static routing, RIPng, EIGRP/EIGRPv6, OSPFv2/OSPFv3

WAN: Point-to-point protocols, eBGP, GRE tunnels, QoS

Infrastructure Services: DHCP, FHRP, HSRP, NAT

Infrastructure Security: Switch port security, ACL traffic management, device hardening

Infrastructure Management: Backup/restore, password recovery, CDP, LLDP, IOS tools, device monitoring, IOS licensing, troubleshooting

Quick, offline access to all CCNA Routing and Switching commands for research and solutions

–Logical how-to topic groupings for a one-stop resource

–Great for review before CCNA Routing and Switching certification exams

–Compact size makes it easy to carry with you wherever you go

–“Create Your Own Journal” section with blank, lined pages enables you to personalize the book for your needs

–“What Do You Want to Do?” chart inside the back cover helps you to quickly reference specific tasks

This book is part of the Cisco Press Certification Self-Study Product Family, which offers readers a self-paced study routine for Cisco® certification exams. Titles in the Cisco Press Certification Self-Study Product Family are part of a recommended learning program from Cisco that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press.

Book Description:

The Firewall Services Module (FWSM) is a high-performance stateful-inspection firewall that integrates into the Cisco® 6500 switch and 7600 router chassis. The FWSM monitors traffic flows using application inspection engines to provide a strong level of network security. The FWSM defines the security parameter and enables the enforcement of security policies through authentication, access control lists, and protocol inspection. The FWSM is a key component to anyone deploying network security.

Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module (FWSM) covers all aspects of the FWSM. The book provides a detailed look at how the FWSM processes information, as well as installation advice, configuration details, recommendations for network integration, and reviews of operation and management. This book provides you with a single source that comprehensively answers how and why the FWSM functions as it does. This information enables you to successfully deploy the FWSM and gain the greatest functional benefit from your deployment. Practical examples throughout show you how other customers have successfully deployed the FWSM.

By reading this book, you will learn how the FWSM functions, the differences between the FWSM and the ASA Security Appliance, how to implement and maintain the FWSM, the latest features of the FWSM, and how to configure common installations.

Ray Blair, CCIE® No. 7050, is a consulting systems architect who has been with Cisco for more than 8 years, working primarily on security and large network designs. He has 20 years of experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining networks that have included nearly all networking technologies. Mr. Blair maintains three CCIE certifications in Routing and Switching, Security, and Service Provider. He is also a CNE and a CISSP.

Arvind Durai, CCIE No. 7016, is an advanced services technical leader for Cisco. His primary responsibility has been in supporting major Cisco customers in the enterprise sector. One of his focuses has been on security, and he has authored several white papers and design guides in various technologies. Mr. Durai maintains two CCIE certifications, in Routing and Switching and Security.

• Understand modes of operation, security levels, and contexts for the FWSM
• Configure routing protocols and the host-chassis to support the FWSM
• Deploy ACLs and Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA)
• Apply class and policy maps
• Configure multiple FWSMs for failover support
• Configure application and protocol inspection
• Filter traffic using filter servers, ActiveX, and Java filtering functions
• Learn how IP multicast and the FWSM interact
• Increase performance with firewall load balancing
• Configure IPv6 and asymmetric routing
• Mitigate network attacks using shunning, anti-spoofing, connection limits, and timeouts
• Examine network design, management, and troubleshooting best practices

This security book is part of the Cisco Press® Networking Technology series. Security titles from Cisco Press help networking professionals secure critical data and resources, prevent and mitigate network attacks, and build end-to-end self-defending networks.

Book Description:

Test your knowledge and prepare for the OCA/OCP exams

OCA/OCP Java SE 8 Programmer Practice Tests complements the Sybex OCA: Oracle Certified Associate Java SE 8 Programmer I Certification Study Guide and the OCP: Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 8 Programmer II Study Guide for exams 1Z0-808 and 1ZO-809 by providing last minute review of 100% of exam objectives. Get the advantage of over 1,000 expert crafted questions that not only provide the answer, but also give detailed explanations. You will have access to unique practice questions that cover all 21 objective domains in the OCA/OCP exams in the format you desire–test questions can also be accessed via the Sybex interactive learning environment. Two additional practice exams will ensure that you are ready for exam day. Whether you have studied with Sybex study guides for your OCA/OCP or have used another brand, this is your chance to test your skills.

• Access to all practice questions online with the Sybex interactive learning environment
• Over 1,000 unique practice questions and 2 practice exams include expert explanations
• Covers 100% of all 21 OCA/OCP objective domains for Exams 1Z0-809 and 1Z0-809

Studying the objectives are one thing, but diving deeper and uncovering areas where further attention is needed can increase your chance of exam day success. Full coverage of all domains shows you what to expect on exam day, and accompanying explanations help you pinpoint which objectives deserve another look.

Book Description:

The bestselling Project+ preparation guide, updated for the latest exam

The CompTIA Project+ Study Guide, Second Edition is your comprehensive resource for taking Exam PK0-004. With 100% coverage of all exam objectives, bolstered by real-world scenarios and the Sybex interactive learning environment, this book gives you everything you need to approach the exam with confidence. Detailed explanations and superior study tools cover and reinforce setup, initiation, planning, execution, delivery, change, control, communication, and closure, and the author Kim Heldman’s twenty-five years of project management experience provide deep insight into real-world applications. Study tools include access to two bonus practice exams, allowing you to focus on areas you need further review, and electronic flashcards provide last minute review on key concepts.

The Project+ exam is a first step into the complex world of project management, and serves as a springboard to the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) PMP certification. This study guide helps you build the knowledge you need to be confident on exam day.

• Review 100 percent of the Project+ exam objectives
• Understand the real-world applications of each concept
• Gain expert insight drawn from real-world experience
• Access online practice exams, electronic flashcards, and more

Every industry needs people who know how to deliver successful project outcomes. The Project+ exam parallels the PMI’s A Guide to Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK© Guide), so this smart study guide gives you a solid foundation for additional project management training and certification. The CompTIA Project+ Study Guide, Second Edition combines industry-leading expertise with Sybex resources to help you successfully begin your project management journey.

Book Description:

Preview exam day with 1500 questions tailored to the exam domains

CCNA Routing and Switching Practice Tests is your ultimate tool for exam success and compliments the Sybex Deluxe Study Guides and Study Guides for the CCENT and CCNA. Whether you’re taking the 200-15 Composite Exam or the two-part 100-105 and 200-105 exams, this book gives you the practice you need to study smarter. Seven completely unique 200-question practice tests cover the seven CCNA Routing and Switching objective domains, and two additional unique 50-question practice exams provide even more opportunity to find areas where further review is needed. These 1500 questions cover everything you’ll see on the exam—network fundamentals; LAN switching technologies; routing technologies; WAN technologies; and infrastructure services, security, and management—so you can avoid any exam-day surprises. Fully aligned with the latest versions of the exams, this book helps you focus your study time and remove uncertainties so you can face the exam with confidence.

The CCNA Routing and Switching exams test your working knowledge of IP data networks, addressing, routing, and services; network device security; troubleshooting, and more. These practice tests cover it all to help you discover what you already know, what you still need to learn, and what to expect on exam day.

• Get a preview of the types of questions you’ll see on the exam
• Pinpoint areas in need of review
• Focus your study time for better results
• Gauge your readiness for any CCNA exam

The CCNA exams cover a broad range of routing and switching topics, and the questions can get fairly in-depth. Practice makes perfect, and practice tests tailored to each of the seven exam domains provide an ideal opportunity to ensure your own top-notch performance. When you’re ready to get serious about CCNA certification, CCNA Routing and Switching Practice Tests are your solution for ultimate exam-day confidence.

Book Description:

As the cellular world and the Internet converge, mobile networks are transitioning from circuit to packet and the Internet Protocol (IP) is now recognized as the fundamental building block for all next-generation communication networks. The all-IP vision provides the flexibility to deliver cost-effective services and applications that meet the evolving needs of mobile users. RF engineers, mobile network designers, and system architects will be expected to have an understanding of IP fundamentals and how their role in delivering the end-to-end system is crucial for delivering the all-IP vision that makes the Internet accessible anytime, anywhere.

IP Design for Mobile Networks discusses proper IP design theory to effectively plan and implement your next-generation mobile network so that IP integrates all aspects of the network. The book outlines, from both a standards and a design theory perspective, both the current and target state of mobile networks, and the technology enablers that will assist the migration. This IP transition begins with function-specific migrations of specific network domains and ends with an end-to-end IP network for radio, transport, and service delivery. The book introduces many concepts to give you exposure to the key technology trends and decision points affecting today’s mobile operators.

The book is divided into three parts:

• Part I provides an overview of how IP is being integrated into mobile systems, including radio systems and cellular networks.
• Part II provides an overview of IP, the technologies used for transport and connectivity of today’s cellular networks, and how the mobile core is evolving to encompass IP technologies.
• Part III provides an overview of the end-to-end services network based on IP, including context awareness and services.
• Presents an overview of what mobile networks look like today–including protocols used, transport technologies, and how IP is being used for specific functions in mobile networks
• Provides an all-inclusive reference manual for IP design theory as related to the broader application of IP for mobile networks
• Imparts a view of upcoming trends in mobility standards to better prepare a network evolution plan for IP-based mobile networks

This book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Press®, which offers networking professionals valuable information for constructing efficient networks, understanding new technologies, and building successful careers.