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MCSE : Internet Information Server 3 Study Guide

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MCSE IIS 3.0 book by Strebe and Perkins is the best and the only book you need to study for 70-077. Actually, this exam is one of the easiest to pass. Even though the book has more than necessary information to pass the exam, it is advisable to just go through the whole book once. The long portions on Dfs, Crystal reports and Web creation tools are not need for the exam but it is good to know. The exam mostly deals with NTFS security, virtual sever and directories and ODBC connectivity issues. I passed the exam within 10 days of starting with this book. May be I am just too conservative to give a perfect 10 rating for this book.

This book will describe all useless topics for the exam. Less than 50 page information about INDEX SERVER out of 565 Page book. All other topics are not going to help you to PASS EXAM

I too am an MCSE, and this is by far the worst "tech" book ever. Fluff, fluff, fluff. Save yourself the money and agony this book will cause. The IIS online product documentation is all you need to learn IIS or pass the exam.

This book will not help you to pass this exam. It has several chapters that are irrelevant and several more that do not go into enough detail The good points. It is an easy read and the demo exams from the CD are good. Use On-line documenation, build an IIS server and use one of the test preperation exams from Transcender or CICPrep

This is not necessary the best study guide for the IIS 3.0 exam. There is too much stuff on this book what doesn't need to be there. The whole book could be only couple chapters long, if it would have the material what I find usefull. If you install IIS to your computer and play around with that for awhile, you will have almost the same knowledge about IIS than after reading this book.

I am an MCSE, and I have read at least 20 different exam guides. This book was far and away the worst. It's not good for reference, study preparation or even a primer. Any valuable information at all could be condensed into 1 or 2 chapters. Save your money

I found this study guide little help on the exam. Most of the chapter topics are not covered by the exam and those that are are woefully lacking in crucial details.

This is not a good book for preparing the exam. Critical information is missing expecially for Index Server. It can pass as an informational book on the subject, but definetly very bad choice for exam preparation.

I found the book to be helpful but very general. Especially weak is coverage on database integration with IIS. There is an exensive overview of web artistical design concerns which the authors acknowledge is not a key component of the exam. The authors were right - spend little time with these sections during serious study. I do not recommend using this book by itself for exam preparation. However, as a supplement, it does provide a fair overview of topics the exam covers.

IIS 3.0 Study Guide is techically accurate and well written but if your purchasing strickly for the purpose of passing the exam your money would better spent on the Transcender practice test. I used Transcender, Braindumps and the online manual that ships IIS 3.0 and scored 960/1000 (easy test).