What are Certification Zone Study Guides?

The Study Guides published at this website focus on the topics you'll be tested on when attempting the exams you must pass to earn Cisco's® CCNA™, CCNP™, and CCIE�™certifications. Certification Zone seeks out highly skilled, Cisco certified networking professionals to author each Study Guide.

Each Study Guide generally consists of three parts:

Tutorial - concise, reader friendly overviews that explain the featured topic's key technical concepts. In the Tutorial section of the Study Guide, the Author's objective is to advise readers what they must know about the topic to be able to solve the types of problems addressing it when taking the actual exams.

Sample Questions - the Author prepares at least 25 carefully constructed questions designed to assess the reader's knowledge of the featured topic. These questions are generally a bit more difficult than those you would encounter on the real-life exam. Don't worry though, the Study Guides include the correct answers and complete explanations for each question.

Lab Scenarios - Whenever the Study Guide topic is appropriate, the Author provides challenging lab scenarios that permit the reader to apply her/his knowledge of the featured topic to a real world networking application.

What are Certification Zone Practice Exams?

The current version of Certification Zone offers two different Practice Exams. One is designed to provide an approximate simulation of Cisco's® CCNA™ Certification Exam (#640-507). The second Practice simulates Cisco's® CCIE™ Written Exam (#350-001). It is the ZONE's intention to expand this list of Practice Exams in the future.

These Practice Exams contain the same number of questions and address the same technical topics as their real-life counterparts. They are computer based tests. You download each Practice Exam from Certification Zone's server, complete the test and submit your answers on-line. Within a few seconds of submission, exam-takers receive a scoring summary that informs them of their final score, identifies their incorrect answers, and provides them with the answers and explanations for those questions they answered incorrectly.