How to Master CCNP ROUTE, SWITCH & TSHOOT
The Guides That Shows How To Master CCNP The Easy Way. Become A Pro At CISCO Networking Today!

Mastering your Cisco Certified Network Professional exams is one of the most important steps you’ll ever take on the path to becoming a true Cisco professional..

CCNP certification is awarded to candidates in the CISCO professional program when they pass the ROUTE,SWITCH and TSHOOT exams.

With your CCNP certification, you are fully licensed to install, configure and troubleshoot Local and Wide Area Networks (WANs) enterprise networks. If you are CCNP certified you have demonstrated the skills required in enterprise roles like network technician, support engineer, systems engineer of network engineer.

The bottom line?

If you want to become a fully certified Cisco professional, you NEED to master the CCNP ROUTE,SWITCH and TSHOOT syllabus and earn your CCNP certification.

If you just passed CCNA, you might have found the CCNP subject matter tough.

It can take months to learn the entire CCNP syllabus in the classroom, and even then, many students have trouble with the material.

The problem is, most teachers emphasize only the HOW of the computer networking principles covered, not the WHY.

That's why I wrote the "How to Master CCNP" trilogy. Unlike classroom approaches, these book shows you HOW and WHY you're doing what you're doing.

I explain each and every principle to you in clear, concise, easy-to-understand terms, so when you read the guide, it's like you're sitting there getting a personsal 1-to-1 consultation from me.

Much more than just a set of commands you have to memorize, “How To Master CCNP ROUTE, SWITCH and TSHOOT" are complete and comprehensive education in CCNP  theory, practice and implementation. I explain to you exactly HOW everything works, and WHY it works. Starting with CCNP theory, I walk you through the entire CCNP syllabus, until you thoroughly comprehend everything you need to know in order to get pass your CCNP ROUTE & SWITCH exam. In "How to Master CCNP TSHOOT" you'll learn how to troubleshoot everything you learned in CCNP ROUTE & SWITCH. It’s the perfect written supplement to the hands-on training I offer in my free CCNP labs.

What You’ll Learn Inside How To Master CCNP ROUTE:

"How to Master CCNP ROUTE" covers the entire CCNP ROUTE syllabus from start to finish.

In the main text of the book, i'll thoroughly explain and illustrathe the following topics to you. Covering all the subject areas to be tested on the CCNP ROUTE exam, they include:

• Introduction to EIGRP: First I will show you how Cisco's Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) works. You will see how EIGRP selects a successor route, why and when it selects feasible successors and you will learn why EIGRP is so fast.
  
• EIGRP Packets and Metrics: How does EIGRP use metrics like bandwidth, delay, load and reliability to select the best path and I will teach you what the different K-values are, how and why you want to change them.
  
• EIGRP over Frame-Relay: Frame-relay is a NBMA (Non-Broadcast Multi Access) network and you will have to make some changes to make sure EIGRP runs on your frame-relay network. You will see what split horizon is and how to use sub-interfaces to overcome the issues that distance vector routing protocols have with frame-relay networks.
  
• EIGRP Authentication: EIGRP uses an advanced method to configure authentication. I will show you how and why we use key-chains and how to enable MD5 authentiction for EIGRP.
  
• EIGRP Advanced Features: How and why you should use EIGRP Stubs to reduce the number of EIGRP queries and stuck-in-active issues.
  
• Introduction to OSPF: I'll teach you how OSPF operates, what the advantages are of link-state routing protocols, how link-state packets work and how OSPF builds the link state database.
  
• OSPF Packets and Neighbor Discovery: One of the topics you'll learn in CCNP ROUTE is how OSPF forms neighbor relationships over different media like point-to-point, broadcast and non-broadcast networks. You will also learn which packets OSPF uses to achieve this.
  
• OSPF LSA Types: You need to understand the different LSA types that OSPF uses, and i'll explain it to you in the simplest terms possible!
  
• OSPF Summarization: You will learn how to configure your OSPF routers to summarize inter-area and external networks between areas.
  
• OSPF Special Area Types: Part of being a CCNP certified professional is understanding the different area types like the stub area, not so stubby, totally stub and totally NSSA. I will show you the different areas, why we use them and how to configure them.
  
• OSPF Authentication: I will show you how to protect OSPF by enabling plaintext or MD5 authentication.
  
• OSPF Virtual Links: You will see how OSPF can use virtual links to connect areas to other areas without being directly connected to area 0 (backbone area) or how to fix a discontigous backbone area.
  
• Routing Manipulation: Part of being a routing professional means you understand how to influence routing protocols using route-maps, distribute-lists and prefix-lists. You will learn how to change traffic flows and/or filter networks.
  
• Redistribution: Prefixes can be imported and exported from one routing protocol to another using redistribution. I will explain to how you we do this, the problems you might face and how to overcome them.
  
• BGP: CCNP professionals have to know how BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) works because this is the routing protocol we use on the Internet. You will learn the difference between BGP and other routing protocols like OSPF/EIGRP and how to configure it.
  
• BGP Attributes and Path Selection: The power of BGP is being able to influence traffic flows, you will master all the different BGP attributes to achieve this.
  
• IPv6: We are running out of IPv4 addresses and once you understand IPv6 you will be ready for the future. I will explain to you the differences between IPv4 and IPv6, the migration techniques and also how to configure IPv6 routing protocols.
  

What You’ll Learn Inside How To Master CCNP SWITCH:

"How to Master CCNP SWITCH" covers the entire CCNP SWITCH syllabus from start to finish.

In the main text of the book, i'll thoroughly explain and illustrathe the following topics to you. Covering all the subject areas to be tested on the CCNP SWITCH exam, they include:

• VLANs and Trunking: Why do we use VLANs, Why and how do we configure trunks, what is the difference between 802.1Q and ISL.
  
• Private VLANs: How and why do use Private VLANs to further segment our VLANs into secondary VLANs.
  
• Spanning-Tree: The basics of spanning-tree, how we elect a root bridge and you will learn how our switches select which interfaces will be forwarding or blocking traffic.
• Rapid Spanning-Tree: The difference between classic and Rapid Spanning-Tree, you will learn why Rapid Spanning-Tree is so much faster.
  
• MST (Multiple Spanning-Tree): How and why you should use Multiple Spanning Tree to reduce the number of Spanning-Tree calculations.
  
• Spanning-Tree Toolkit: I'll teach you how to speed up Spanning-Tree and how to protect it against hackers, loops and configuration errors.
  
• Routing between VLANs: One of the topics you'll learn in CCNP SWITCH is how to route between VLANS on your multilayer switches.
• Gateway Redundancy (VRRP, GLBP and HSRP): You need to understand how to configure a virtual gateway and the difference between VRRP, GLBP and HSRP, and i'll explain it to you in the simplest terms possible!
  
• Switch Security: You will learn how to configure your switches against hackers attacking your DHCP servers, performing ARP poisoning and how to use access-lists within VLANs.
  
• How to run VoIP and Video on your switched network: Part of being a CCNP certified professional is understanding how to configure your switches so voice and video traffic will run without any issues.
  
• Wireless Networking: I will show you how the Cisco wireless infrastructure works, how wireless controllers and light-weight access points work and how you should configure your switches to support wireless.

What You’ll Learn Inside How To Master CCNP TSHOOT:

"How to Master CCNP TSHOOT" covers the entire CCNP TSHOOT syllabus from start to finish.

In the main text of the book, i'll thoroughly explain and illustrate the following topics to you. Covering all the subject areas to be tested on the CCNP TSHOOT exam, they include:

• Network Maintenance: How we should deal with structured and interrupt-driven tasks and the different maintenance models like FCAPS, ITIL, TMN and the Cisco Lifecycle Services.
  
• Troubleshooting Methodologies: How should we troubleshoot and what is the difference between the top-down, bottom-up, "shoot from the hip" and other troubleshooting techniques.
  
• Tools for Troubleshooting: The must know tools that every master troubleshooter has to understand. I will show you things like logging, SNMP, configuration archives, port mirroring and much more!
  
• Troubleshooting EIGRP: What prevents EIGRP from becoming neighbors and learning networks and how to fix it.
  
• Troubleshooting OSPF: How to fix broken OSPF neighbor adjacencies and what to do when LSAs are missing.
  
• Troubleshooting BGP: I'll teach you how to troubleshoot BGP and why some prefixes show up in the BGP table but not in the routing table.
  
• Troubleshooting Network Services: One of the things you'll need to troubleshoot for CCNP TSHOOT is NAT, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP and DHCP.
  
• Troubleshooting IPv6 : You need to understand how to troubleshoot RIPNG, OSPFv3, EIGRP for IPv6 and all the different IPv6 tunneling techniques, and i'll explain it to you in the simplest terms possible!
  
• Troubleshooting Full Labs: You will learn how to troubleshoot "full labs" which represent a real production network. In this chapter I will walk you through troubleshooting the official Cisco CCNP TSHOOT topology.

There's no question about it.

Any subject that you need to know for your CCNP exams, is covered in these books, in more detail and in easier-to-understand form than any other guides currently on the market.

If you've already studied with me in my CCNP labs, these books will serve as a perfect complement to your lab instructions, giving you a perfect reference to review as you study.

If you're planning on self-studying for your CCNP exams, these books are the guides that will help you memorize, internalize and apply all the information you need to master.

In it, you'll find...

…all the theory and high-end information you can’t learn in labs.

 
This is high-end material you can’t do with your hands, but will nonetheless need to master for your exams.

This is the theoretical foundation on which all CISCO networking practices rest.

It includes things like:

• The OSPF LSA Types, the difference between them and how they work.
• The different OSPF area types like stub area, not so stubby, totally stub and totally NSSA and why you want to use them.
  
• Why EIGRP chooses a certain path, how it selects backup paths and why it is so fast.
  
• Differences between different wireless topologies like autonomous and light-weight.
  
• How the Internet is connected through BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) and the difference between IBGP and EBGP.
  
• A thorough explanation of IPv6, tunneling techniques, migration strategies and IPv6 routing protocols.
  
• How spanning-tree uses BPDUs to create a loop-free layer 2 topology.The difference between 802.1Q and ISL for trunk links.Why
• you need the hello, forward and max age timers for spanning-tree.
• Differences between different wireless topologies like autonomous and light-weight.
• Why you should use a SVI (Switch Virtual Interface) and when to turn a switchport into a Layer 3 interface.
• thorough explanation of GLBP, VRRP and HSRP and how to do load-balancing for different VLANs.
  
• How to troubleshoot a real production network based on the official Cisco CCNP TSHOOT topology.

And much, much more.

It’s 750+ pages of pure, no-nonsense information, packaged in a way that’s easy to read and easy to understand.

Put simply, these are the most straightforward yet comprehensive CCNP guides on the face of the planet.

I'm confident that once you've had the chance to read just a couple of chapters you'll agree these are the best guides out there to prepare for and pass your CCNP exams to become CCNP certified.

So, just to put my money where my mouth is, I'm going to give you a chance to check out some sample chapters today:

Sample Chapters "How to Master CCNP ROUTE"

Sample Chapters "How to Master CCNP SWITCH"

Sample Chapters "How to Master CCNP TSHOOT"

"Alright Ren é...I'm ready to master CCNP and pass my CCNP exams... send me your handbooks now!"

Whether you’re a CISCO student and are preparing for your exams, or are just an independent learner interested in learning about computer networking, you’ll find “How To Master CCNP ROUTE” and "How to Master CCNP SWITCH" the clearest, best-written and most informative guides you’ve ever read on the topic.

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I believe in my teachings, and I care about my customers' satisfaction above all else.

So go ahead and invest in your education today.

 I guarantee you’ll learn everything you need to know to become a certified CCNP expert, and excel on your CCNP exams.

That's a promise, from me to you.

Sincerely,

René