27 12 2011
Cisco Press – CCNP TSHOOT 642-832 Official Certification Guide
Cisco Press – CCNP TSHOOT 642-832 Official Certification Guide
Introduction: Overview of Certification and
How to Succeed
Professional certifications have been an important part of the computing industry for
many years and will continue to become more important. Many reasons exist for these
certifications, but the most popularly cited reason is that of credibility. All other consid-
erations held equal, the certified employee/consultant/job candidate is considered more
valuable than one who is not.
Objectives and Methods
The most important and somewhat obvious objective of this book is to help you pass the
Cisco CCNP TSHOOT exam (Exam 642-832). In fact, if the primary objective of this
book were different, the book’s title would be misleading; however, the methods used in
this book to help you pass the TSHOOT exam are designed to also make you much more
knowledgeable about how to do your job. Although this book and the accompanying
CD-ROM have many exam preparation tasks and example test questions, the method in
which they are used is not to simply make you memorize as many questions and answers
as you possibly can.
The methodology of this book helps you discover the exam topics about which you need
more review, fully understand and remember exam topic details, and prove to yourself
that you have retained your knowledge of those topics. So this book helps you pass not
by memorization, but by helping you truly learn and understand the topics. The
TSHOOT exam is just one of the foundation topics in the CCNP Routing and Switching
certification, and the knowledge contained within is vitally important to consider your-
self a truly skilled routing and switching engineer or specialist. This book would do you a
disservice if it did not attempt to help you learn the material. To that end, the book can
help you pass the TSHOOT exam by using the following methods:
■ Covering all of the exam topics and helping you discover which exam topics you
have not mastered
■ Providing explanations and information to fill in your knowledge gaps
■ Supplying multiple troubleshooting case studies with diagrams and diagnostic out-
put that enhance your ability to resolve trouble tickets presented in the exam envi-
ronment, in addition to real-world troubleshooting issues you might encounter
■ Providing practice exercises on exam topics, presented in each chapter and on the
enclosed CD-ROM
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