| The primary goal of this book is to help you prepare to pass either the 9E0-121 or 642-511 Cisco Secure
VPN (CSVPN) exams as you strive to attain the CCSP certification or a focused VPN certification. Adhering
to the premise that, as individuals, we each retain information better through different media, this book provides
a variety of formats to help you succeed in passing this exam. Questions make up a significant portion of
this book, because they are what you are confronted with on the exam and because they are a useful way
to gauge your understanding of the material. The accompanying CD-ROM provides additional questions to
help you with your exam preparation.
Along with the extensive and comprehensive questions within this book and on the CD, this book also covers
all the published topics for the exam in detail, using charts, diagrams, and screenshots as appropriate to
help you understand the concepts. The book assumes that you have a moderate understanding of networking
(Cisco’s prerequisite for CCSP certification is that you possess the CCNA certification and pass five additional
exams), and does not attempt to bore you with material that you should already know. Some published
topics are stated with the assumption that you possess certain knowledge that the CCNA certification
did not bestow upon you. In those cases, this book attempts to fill in the missing material to catch you up to
the material covered by the exam topic. Because this is an exam certification guide, the goal is to provide
you with enough information to understand the published topics and to pass the exam, in effect right-sizing
the material to the topics of the exam.
This book can help you pass the Cisco Secure VPN exam using the following methods:
• Self-assessment questions at the beginning of each chapter help you discover what you need to study.
• Detailed topic material is provided to clarify points that you might not already understand.
• End-of-chapter exercises and scenarios help you determine what you learned from the chapter’s material.
• Additional questions on the CD give you a chance to look at the material from different perspectives. |
