CCNP and CCIE Enterprise Core ENCOR 350-401 Official Cert Guide / Edition 1

by Brad Edgeworth, David Hucaby, Ramiro Garza Rios, Jason Gooley

Overview

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.

CCNP and CCIE Enterprise Core ENCOR 350-401 Official Cert Guide presents you with an organized test preparation routine using 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 CCNP/CCIE ENCOR 350-401 exam topics
• Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes
• Review key concepts with exam preparation tasks
• Practice with realistic exam questions in the practice test software

CCNP and CCIE Enterprise Core ENCOR 350-401 Official Cert Guide from Cisco Press enables you to succeed on the exam the first time and is the only self-study resource approved by Cisco. Expert authors Brad Edgeworth, Ramiro Garza Rios, Dave Hucaby, and Jason Gooley 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 exams
• Do I Know This Already? quizzes, which enable 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 Test Prep Practice Test software, complete with hundreds of well-reviewed, exam-realistic questions, customization options, and detailed performance reports
• Practice exercises that help you enhance your knowledge
• More than 90 minutes of video mentoring from the author
• 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, and challenging review questions and exercises, this official study guide helps you master the concepts and techniques that ensure your exam success.

This official study guide helps you master all the topics on the CCNP/CCIE Enterprise Core ENCOR exam, including

• Enterprise network architecture
• Virtualization
• Network assurance
• Security
• Automation

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Pearson Test Prep online system requirements:
Browsers: Chrome version 73 and above, Safari version 12 and above, Microsoft Edge 44 and above.
Devices: Desktop and laptop computers, tablets running on Android v8.0 and iOS v13, smartphones with a minimum screen size of 4.7”. Internet access required.

Pearson Test Prep offline system requirements:
Windows 10, Windows 8.1; Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Client; Pentium-class 1 GHz processor (or equivalent); 512 MB RAM; 650 MB disk space plus 50 MB for each downloaded practice exam; access to the Internet to register and download exam databases.

Also available from Cisco Press for CCNP/CCIE Enterprise Core study is the CCNP/CCIE Enterprise Core ENCOR 350-401 Official Cert Guide Premium Edition eBook and Practice Test. This digital-only certification preparation product combines an eBook with enhanced Pearson Pearson Test Prep Practice Test.

This integrated learning package

• Enables you to focus on individual topic areas or take complete, timed exams
• Includes direct links from each question to detailed tutorials to help you understand the concepts behind the questions
• Provides unique sets of exam-realistic practice questions
• 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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781587145230
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	12/24/2019
Series:	Official Cert Guide
Pages:	1024
Sales rank:	516,799
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 2.10(d)

About the Author

Brad Edgeworth, CCIE No. 31574 (R&S and SP), is a systems architect at Cisco Systems. Brad is a distinguished speaker at Cisco Live, where he has presented on various topics. Before joining Cisco, Brad worked as a network architect and consultant for various Fortune 500 companies. Brad’s expertise is based on enterprise and service provider environments, with an emphasis on architectural and operational simplicity. Brad holds a bachelor of arts degree in computer systems management from St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. Brad can be found on Twitter as @BradEdgeworth.

Ramiro Garza Rios, CCIE No. 15469 (R&S, SP, and Security), is a solutions architect in the Cisco Customer Experience (CX) organization. His expertise is on enterprise and service provider network environments, with a focus on evolving architectures and nextgeneration technologies. He is also a Cisco Live distinguished speaker. Ramiro recently concluded a multi-year Cisco ACI project for one of the top three Tier 1 ISPs in the United States.

Before joining Cisco Systems in 2005, he was a network consulting and presales engineer for a Cisco Gold Partner in Mexico, where he planned, designed, and implemented both enterprise and service provider networks.

David Hucaby, CCIE No. 4594 (R&S), CWNE No. 292, is a lead network engineer for the University of Kentucky Healthcare, where he focuses on wireless networks in a large medical environment. David holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Kentucky. He has been authoring Cisco Press titles for 20 years.

Jason Gooley, CCIE No. 38759 (R&S and SP), is a very enthusiastic and spontaneous person who has more than 20 years of experience in the industry. Currently, Jason works as a technical solutions architect for the Worldwide Enterprise Networking Sales team at Cisco Systems. Jason is very passionate about helping others in the industry succeed. In addition to being a Cisco Press author, Jason is a distinguished speaker at Cisco Live, contributes to the development of the Cisco CCIE and DevNet exams, provides training for Learning@Cisco, is an active CCIE mentor, is a committee member for the Cisco Continuing Education Program (CE), and is a program committee member of the Chicago Network Operators Group (CHI-NOG), www.chinog.org. Jason also hosts a show called MetalDevOps. Jason can be found at www.MetalDevOps.com, @MetalDevOps, and @Jason_Gooley on all social media platforms.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 Packet Forwarding
• Chapter 2 Spanning Tree Protocol
• Chapter 3 Advanced STP Tuning
• Chapter 4 Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol
• Chapter 5 VLAN Trunks and EtherChannel Bundles
• Chapter 6 IP Routing Essentials
• Chapter 7 EIGRP
• Chapter 8 OSPF
• Chapter 9 Advanced OSPF
• Chapter 10 OSPFv3
• Chapter 11 BGP
• Chapter 12 Advanced BGP
• Chapter 13 Multicast
• Chapter 14 QoS
• Chapter 15 IP Services
• Chapter 16 Overlay Tunnels
• Chapter 17 Wireless Signals and Modulation
• Chapter 18 Wireless Infrastructure
• Chapter 19 Understanding Wireless Roaming and Location Services
• Chapter 20 Authenticating Wireless Clients Chapter 21 Troubleshooting Wireless Connectivity
• Chapter 22 Enterprise Network Architecture
• Chapter 23 Fabric Technologies
• Chapter 24 Network Assurance
• Chapter 25 Secure Network Access Control
• Chapter 26 Network Device Access Control and Infrastructure Security Chapter 27 Virtualization
• Chapter 28 Foundational Network Programmability Concepts
• Chapter 29 Introduction to Automation Tools
• Chapter 30 Final Preparation
• Glossary