CCIE Security Practice Labs (CCIE Self-Study)

Product Description

Seven comprehensive CCIE security labs to hone configuration and troubleshooting skills

Prepare for the CCIE Security lab exam and hone your security configuration and troubleshooting skills with seven complete practice scenarios that cover:

• Basic device configuration
• Routing configuration
• ISDN configuration
• Cisco PIX Firewall configuration
• VPN configuration, including IPSec, GRE, L2TP, and PPTP
• VPN-3000 Concentrator configuration
• Intrusion Detection System (IDS) 42xx Appliance configuration
• Cisco IOS Firewall configuration
• AAA configuration
• Advanced security issues
• IP services and protocol-independent features
• Security violations

The explosive growth of the Internet economy over the past several years and new IP-based enterprise applications has heightened requirements for continuous availability of mission-critical data. Today's network administrators and managers are under big pressure to satisfy ever-increasing demands from customers, suppliers, and employees for 100 percent network resource availability and access to applications and data. The end result is that the cost of a network security breach has never been higher. Accordingly, the demand for networking professionals with expert-level network security configuration and troubleshooting skills is also great. The Cisco Systems CCIE Security certification is a prestigious program that sets the professional benchmark for internetworking expertise, validating proficiency with advanced technical skills required to design, configure, and maintain a wide range of network security technologies.

CCIE Security Practice Labs provides a series of complete practice labs that mirror the difficult hands-on lab exam. Written by a CCIE Security engineer and Cisco Systems CCIE proctor, this book lays out seven end-to-end scenarios that are both complex and realistic, providing you with the practice needed to prepare for your lab examination and develop critical-thinking skills that are essential for resolving complex, real-world security problems. While many engineers are able to configure single technologies in standalone environments, most will struggle when dealing with integrated technologies in heterogeneous environments.

CCIE Security Practice Labs consists of seven full-blown labs. The book does not waste time covering conceptual knowledge found in other security manuals, but focuses exclusively on these complex scenarios. The structure of each chapter is the same, covering a broad range of security topics. Each chapter starts with an overview, equipment list, and general guidelines and instructions on setting up the lab topology, including cabling instructions, and concludes with verification, hints, and troubleshooting tips, which highlight show and debug commands. The companion CD-ROM contains solutions for all of the labs, including configurations and common show command output from all the devices in the topology.
"Security is one of the fastest-growing areas in the industry. There is an ever-increasing demand for the experts with the knowledge and skills to do it."
-Gert De Laet, Product Manager, CCIE Security, Cisco Systems

CCIE Security Practice Labs is part of a recommended study program from Cisco Systems that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press.

Companion CD-ROM
The CD-ROM contains the solutions to the seven complete lab scenarios in the book including configurations and show command output.

This volume is part of the Cisco Press Practical Studies Series, which offers readers a means to apply their theoretical knowledge through hands-on lab scenarios for key networking technologies. This unique approach enables readers to practice and hone their internetworking skills while preparing for Cisco certification exams.

Tips

Tech Tips and Training feature from Packet® magazine
Insider's Tips on Earning Your CCIE in Security

Customer Reviews

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful full of mistakes, June 6, 2004 By  Uwe (Silicon Valley, USA) - See all my reviews This review is from: CCIE Security Practice Labs (CCIE Self-Study) (Practical Studies) (Hardcover) I am disappointed with this book!! Full of mistakes! Example lab 1: Advertising a route into RIP ver 1 does not work if the major net on the interface has a different subnet mask then the subnet he tries to advertise to R5. What he is trying to accomplish is nonsense! You cant advertise a route if it is in the rip database by just creating a loopback interface on router R1! Then further on OSPF why would he configure authentication on a loopback interface which is printed out on the CD under configuration examples? Quite frankly this book is not a 5* for sure. I bough it to prepare myself for the lab but I am looking forward what else I discover. So perhaps the author should publish some corrections or updates to this book! Thanks! Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you?  Report abuse | Permalink  Comment 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful Great CCIE Lab tool, September 9, 2004 By  Paul Miller (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews This review is from: CCIE Security Practice Labs (CCIE Self-Study) (Practical Studies) (Hardcover) I recently read the book titled "CCIE Security Practice Labs (CCIE Self-Study)", by Yusuf Hussain Bhaiji. ISBN: 1587051346. This is a great book to use for preparing for the CCIE Security Lab. The main benefit that this book has to offer is that it allows the reader to think outside of the box and configure different Cisco network security devices and features in a way that would otherwise be overlooked. The book is made up of 7 practice labs which are fairly equal in complexity. As the author states in the book, the labs are relatively straight forward, however it's the detail that one needs to pay attention to in order to help reinforce skills needed to pass the CCIE Security Lab. Technologies covered in this book include a fairly good portion on general network features such as IP routing protocols (OSPF, EIGRP, BGP and RIP), a few data link layer WAN technologies (ISDN, Frame Relay), Firewall and Intrusion Detection scenarios as well as Authentication,... Read more Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you?  Report abuse | Permalink  Comment 1 of 2 people found the following review helpful Get a feel of CCIE Security Lab, August 14, 2004 By  Muazzam Saeed (Hicksville, NY, USA) - See all my reviews    This review is from: CCIE Security Practice Labs (CCIE Self-Study) (Practical Studies) (Hardcover) I did my CCNP about 2 years ago. Have a big Cisco Lab at home. For long time I was loking for a book that can give me a real feel of actual CCIE labs. I found that in this book. The CD has all the answers for the all 7 labs. Since I have not attempted the exam yet, I don't know how close they are from real exam. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you?  Report abuse | Permalink  Comment

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Table of Contents

Foreword.


Introduction.


1. Practice Lab 1.

Downloadable Sample Chapter

Sample Chapter - 1.2 MB -- Chapter 1: Practice Lab 1

Errata

Errata -- 23.5 KB