27 12 2011

CCNP_SWITCH_642-813_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 SWITCH exam (Exam 642-813). 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 SWITCH exam are designed to also make you much more
knowledgeable about how to do your job. Although this book and the accompanying CD
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 SWITCH
exam is just one of the foundation topics in the CCNP Routing and Switching certifica-
tion, and the knowledge contained within is vitally important to consider yourself 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 SWITCH exam by using the following methods:
■ Covering all 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 exam preparation tasks and example networks with diagrams and sample
configurations that all enhance your ability to recall and deduce the answers to test
questions
■ Providing practice exercises on the exam topics and the testing process through test
questions on the CD

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