After reading this book, you should be able to use these tools to do some testing and even working on penetration projects. You just need to remember not to use these techniques in a production environment without having a formal approval.
Rassoul Ghaznavi-zadeh, the author, has been an IT security engineer since 1999. He started as a Cisco engineer and developed his networking and security knowledge around technologies like Cisco, Checkpoint, Juniper and also processes like ISO 27001, PCI.
He also has some extensive background around Linux systems and services and security tools available on them. Rassoul has helped a lot of enterprise organizations to have a safe and secure environment by testing, auditing and providing recommendations.
Rassoul has multiple international certificates around networking, security and architecting enterprise IT.