continue to become more important. Many reasons exist for these certifications, but the most often cited rea-
son is credibility. All other considerations held equal, the certified employee/consultant/job candidate is
considered more valuable than one who is not.
Design exam. However, the methods used in this book to help you pass the exam are also designed to make
you much more knowledgeable about how to do your job. Although this book and the accompanying CD
have more than enough questions to help you prepare for the exam, the intent is not to make you memorize
as many questions and answers as you possibly can.
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. This book does not try to help you pass by memorization.
Instead, it helps you truly learn and understand the topics. The Cisco Internetwork Design exam is just one
of the foundation topics in the CCDP certification. The knowledge contained within is vitally important if
you are to consider yourself a truly skilled routing/switching design engineer or specialist. This book would
do you a disservice if it didn't attempt to help you learn the material. To that end, this book helps you pass
the Cisco Internetwork Design exam by using the following methods:
questions
This book is intended to tremendously increase your chances of passing the Cisco Internetwork Design
exam. Although other objectives can be achieved from using this book, it was written with one goal in mind:
to help you pass the exam.
toward getting the CCDP certification--no small feat in itself. What would getting the CCDP mean to you?
A raise, a promotion, recognition? How about enhancing your resume? Demonstrating that you are serious
about continuing the learning process and that you're not content to rest on your laurels? Pleasing your
reseller-employer, who needs more certified employees for a higher discount from Cisco? Or one of many
other reasons.