(642-641) 642-641 QoS

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Cisco’s exam 642-641, “Quality of Serviceâ€? (QoS) is a core requirement for the Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional (CCIP) certification. It is a mid level exam for IT professionals who have the “knowledge and skills necessary to configure and troubleshoot Cisco IOS routers running Quality of Service protocols in a Service Provider environment.â€? The candidate must hold a valid CCNA certification as a prerequisite to this exam.  

This exam costs $125 USD. It may be taken from Pearson Vue or Thomson Prometric.

Cisco does not publish the pass score for this exam which can include these types of questions: “multiple-choice single answer, multiple-choice multiple answer, drag-and-drop, fill-in-the-blank, and simulations.�

The topics covered by this exam include:

• Introduction to IP Quality of Service
• Classification and Marking Mechanisms
• Queuing Mechanisms
• Traffic Shaping and Policing Mechanisms
• Congestion Avoidance Mechanisms
• Link Efficiency Mechanisms
• Signaling Mechanisms
• Modular QoS Command Line Interface
• QoS and IP over ATM

For more information:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/10/wwtraining/certprog/testing/current_exams/642-641.html