For Whom Is This Book?

This book is for you if

• You are an IT professional who already holds a current Cisco Certified Network Associate certification and are preparing for the Cisco BSCI 642-801 examination.

• Your job or work involves working in and around the Internet or internetworks, offering you experience and a basic working knowledge of scalable routing technologies.

• Your job or work carries some specific networking considerations with it, be it configuration, policy, or network design.

• You are interested in pursuing the CCNP, CCIP, and/or CCDP certification from Cisco.

This book is not for you if

• You are just getting started in networking and have little or no experience with the Cisco IOS, networking concepts, and IP addressing.

• You are working in IT but have no systems or network administration experience or explicitly router- related job duties or responsibilities.

• You seek a learning tool to teach you all the background, terms, and concepts necessary to understand basic networking.

• You are curious about these suddenly popular Cisco certifications and want to explore a potential career change.

If you fall into the category that indicates this book is not for you, you should start your Cisco certification path somewhere else. You should consider preparing for the current Cisco CCNA exam.