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 considerations held equal, the certified employee/consultant/
job candidate is considered more valuable than one who is not.
Goals and Methods
The most important and somewhat obvious goal of this book is to help you pass the Switching exam
(#640-504). In fact, if the primary objective of this book was different, then the book’s title would be
misleading; however, the methods used in this book to help you pass the CCNP Switching exam are
designed to also make you much more knowledgeable about how to do your job. While this book and
the accompanying CD together have more than enough questions to help you prepare for the actual
exam, the method in which they are used is not to simply make you memorize as many questions and
answers as you possibly can.
The key approach used in this book is to help you discover the exam topics that you need to review in
more depth, to help you fully understand and remember those details, and to help you prove to yourself
that you have retained your knowledge of those topics. So this book does not try to help you pass by
memorization but helps you truly learn and understand the topics. The Switching exam is just one of the
foundation topics in the CCNP certification and the knowledge contained within is vitally important to
consider yourself a truly skilled routing/switching engineer or specialist. This book would do you a disservice
if it didn’t attempt to help you learn the material. To that end, the book will help you pass the
Switching exam by using the following methods:
• Helping you discover which test topics you have not mastered
• Providing explanations and information to fill in your knowledge gaps
• Supplying exercises and scenarios that enhance your ability to recall and deduce the answers to test
questions
• Providing practice exercises on the topics and the testing process via test questions on the CD
will continue to become more important. Many reasons exist for these certifications, but the most popularly
cited reason is that of credibility. All other considerations held equal, the certified employee/consultant/
job candidate is considered more valuable than one who is not.
Goals and Methods
The most important and somewhat obvious goal of this book is to help you pass the Switching exam
(#640-504). In fact, if the primary objective of this book was different, then the book’s title would be
misleading; however, the methods used in this book to help you pass the CCNP Switching exam are
designed to also make you much more knowledgeable about how to do your job. While this book and
the accompanying CD together have more than enough questions to help you prepare for the actual
exam, the method in which they are used is not to simply make you memorize as many questions and
answers as you possibly can.
The key approach used in this book is to help you discover the exam topics that you need to review in
more depth, to help you fully understand and remember those details, and to help you prove to yourself
that you have retained your knowledge of those topics. So this book does not try to help you pass by
memorization but helps you truly learn and understand the topics. The Switching exam is just one of the
foundation topics in the CCNP certification and the knowledge contained within is vitally important to
consider yourself a truly skilled routing/switching engineer or specialist. This book would do you a disservice
if it didn’t attempt to help you learn the material. To that end, the book will help you pass the
Switching exam by using the following methods:
• Helping you discover which test topics you have not mastered
• Providing explanations and information to fill in your knowledge gaps
• Supplying exercises and scenarios that enhance your ability to recall and deduce the answers to test
questions
• Providing practice exercises on the topics and the testing process via test questions on the CD
This book is not designed to be a general networking topics book, although it can be used for that purpose.
This book is intended to tremendously increase your chances of passing the CCNP Switching
exam. Although other objectives can be achieved from using this book, the book is written with one goal
in mind: to help you pass the exam.
So why should you want to pass the CCNP Switching exam? Because it’s one of the milestones towards
getting the CCNP certification; no small feat in itself. What would getting the CCNP mean to you? Araise, a promotion, recognition? How about to enhance your resume? To demonstrate that you are serious
about continuing the learning process and that you’re not content to rest on your laurels. To please your
reseller-employer, who needs more certified employees for a higher discount from Cisco. Or one of many other reasons.
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