CCNP ONT Official Exam Certification Guide

• Master all 642-845 exam topics with the official study guide
• Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes
• Review key concepts with foundation summaries
• Practice with hundreds of exam questions on the CD-ROM

Amir Ranjbar, CCIE® No. 8669

CCNP ONT Official Exam Certification Guide is a best of breed Cisco® exam study guide that focuses specifically on the objectives for the Optimizing Converged Cisco Networks exam (642-845 ONT). Successfully passing the ONT 642-845 exam certifies that you have the knowledge and skills necessary to optimize and apply effective QoS techniques for converged networks.

CCNP ONT Official Exam Certification Guide follows a logical organization of the CCNP® ONT exam objectives. Material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing your retention and recall of exam topics. You can organize your exam preparation through the use of the consistent features in these chapters. “Do I Know This Already?” quizzes open each chapter and allow you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section. Exam topic lists and concise Foundation Summary information make referencing easy and give you a quick refresher whenever you need it. Challenging chapter-ending review questions help you assess your knowledge and reinforce key concepts.

The companion CD-ROM contains a powerful testing engine that allows you to focus on individual topic areas or take complete, timed exams. The assessment engine also tracks your performance and provides feedback on a topic-by-topic basis, presenting question-by-question remediation to the text. Well regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, and challenging review questions and exercises, this book helps you master the concepts and techniques that can enable you to succeed on the exam the first time.

Amir Ranjbar, CCIE® No. 8669, is a certified Cisco instructor and an internetworking consultant. He conducts Cisco official courses such as BCMSN, BSCI, ONT, CVOICE, BGP, and MPLS for Global Knowledge, the largest Cisco training partner. Amir has a bachelor’s degree in computing and information science and a master’s degree in knowledge-based systems from the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.

The official study guide helps you master all the topics on the CCNP ONT exam, including

• Implementing a voice-over-IP (VoIP) network
• Implementing QoS on converged networks
• Specific IP QoS mechanisms for implementing the DiffServ QoS model

• AutoQoS
• Wireless security
• Basic wireless management

Companion CD-ROM

The CD-ROM contains an electronic copy of the book and more than 200 practice questions for the ONT exam, which are all available in study mode, test mode, and flash card format.

This volume is part of the Exam Certification Guide Series from Cisco Press®. Books in this series provide officially developed exam preparation materials that offer assessment, review, and practice to help Cisco Career Certification candidates identify weaknesses, concentrate their study efforts, and enhance their confidence as exam day nears.

Category: Cisco Certification

Covers: ONT Exam 642-845

Amir S. Ranjbar

, CCIE No. 8669, is an internetworking trainer and consultant. Born in Tehran,

Iran, he moved to Canada in 1983. He received his bachelor’s degree in computer science (1989)

and master of science degree in knowledge-based systems (1991) from the University of Guelph

in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. After graduation, Amir worked as a programmer/analyst for Statistics

Canada until 1995 when he was hired by Digital Equipment Corporation as a certified Microsoft

trainer. After performing training on Microsoft Backoffice products such as Windows NT,

Exchange Server, and Systems Management Server for three years, he shifted his focus to Cisco

Systems. In 1998, he joined GEOTRAIN Corporation, which was later acquired by Global

Knowledge Network, and worked for them as a full-time Certified Cisco Systems Instructor until

2005. In October 2005, Amir started his own business (AMIRACAN Inc.) in the field of

internetwork consulting, but his major activity is still conducting training for Global Knowledge

Network on a contractual basis. His areas of specialty are MPLS, BGP, QoS, VoIP, and advanced

routing and switching.