Tips for Cisco Exam 642–832 TSHOOT: Troubleshooting and Maintaining Cisco IP Networks

In January of 2010, Cisco announced they were updating their CCNP curriculum and their certification exams through what they described as “a comprehensive process involving customers and partners from around the globe.” The revisions focused “on the competencies that are needed to plan, implement, and troubleshoot the routed and switched networks of today and are designed to be more predictive of job readiness.”

As a result, the exams became more challenging and focused on core competencies for routing, switching, and troubleshooting an enterprise network. This post is part of a detailed outline to help you understand what information is required to pass the ROUTE, SWITCH, and TSHOOT exams. This is not a substitute for training and/or knowledge required to pass these exams.

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PMP Exam Prep Question of the Week

The quality control team has raised concerns about the quality of the output of a specific machine being used in your pilot test. You ask the team to provide quantitative data to validate their concerns. The quality control team leader reports that on average 9 of 375 articles produced by the specific machine are defective. What is the probability that an article chosen at random will be defective?

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Conquering Big Data Survey

For its 2013 study of analytics needs in the workforce, American Management Association (AMA) and i4cp fielded a survey that garnered responses from 789 businesspeople representing a variety of industries (50+ industries), global locations (40+ countries), and organizational structures and sizes (1–10,000+ employees).

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