MCSE Networking Essentials Exam Prep (Exam: 70-058) [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Ed Tittel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 1998

Serves as a comprehensive Exam Prep Study Guide for Exam #70-058: Networking Essentials. Features real-world examples, interactive activities, and over 100 hands-on projects that reinforce key concepts and help prepare for the exam. Includes an interactive CD-ROM with practice questions that allow readers to test their skills and knowledge and help build confidence before taking the actual certification exam. Presents a content and study approach officially endorsed by Microsoft. Provides extensive illustrations that help portray complex subject material. Contains troubleshooting tips that provide solutions to common problems.

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Amazon.com Review

In order to become a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), you're required to pass the Networking Essentials exam. If you've spent significant time maintaining or administering local-area networks (LANs), you're halfway there as the exam deals with such common problems as topology selection and protocol comparison. But exams and the real world aren't the same thing. You'll benefit from a guide to the exam that explains where it intersects with and where it diverges from reality.

Exam Prep: Networking Essentials begins with an extremely elementary explanation of what computer networks are and why they're desirable. The book then quickly moves on to topologies, protocols, and the other considerations involved in designing, expanding, or upgrading a LAN. Networking Essentials also covers cabling, network interface cards, and multi-protocol LANs, which are all on the exam.

Each subject's treatment comprises some readable prose, some thoroughly detailed definitions, and some tables, such as those that list various Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standards that pertain to LANs. You'll find quiz questions (the answers appear in the back of the book) and some real-world scenarios in which you must do such things as justify the extra expense of Ethernet over ARCnet. A companion CD-ROM includes excellent test-simulator software.

About the Author

Ed Tittel (Austin, TX) is president of LANWrights, Inc., a training and content development company. His author team specializes in certification training and networking and has authored over 100 best-selling computer books.

Product Details

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Coriolis Group (January 15, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576102378
• ISBN-13: 978-1576102374
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,569,163 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ed Tittel is a full-time freelance writer, trainer, and consultant who specializes in information security, markup languages, and networking technologies. He is a regular contributor to numerous TechTarget websites; teaches online security and technology courses for HP; and writes regularly for Tom's Hardware and ITExpertVoice.

Ed has contributed to over 100 books on various computing subjects, including a dozen different titles in the ...For Dummies series. He is probably best known for creating the Exam Cram series of IT certification prep books in 1997, and for having edited that series from 1997 until 2006. Ed's best-selling titles include "HTML, XHTML and CSS For Dummies" (soon to go into a 7th edition, for a cumulative total of 13 editions of HTML For Dummies titles he's worked on), "The Guide to TCP/IP" (which he co-authored with protocol expert Laura Chappell), "Windows Server 2008 For Dummies," and "Networking Essentials." He's also written numerous titles on security including the "CISSP Study Guide" (4th edition, with co-authors James Michael Stewart and Mike Chapple), "The PC Magazine Guide to Fighting Spyware, Viruses, and Malware," and the "TISCA Training Guide."

For more information on Ed, please visit his personal Website at www.edtittel.com. You can also visit his profile on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/edtittel to get information about various blogs and other activities.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Can be used as a Networking Learning tool as well, December 22, 1999

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Carlos Santiago - See all my reviews

This review is from: MCSE Networking Essentials Exam Prep (Exam: 70-058) (Paperback)

I used this study guide along with Sybex's Test Success (ISBN:0782121462, read my review)and both helped me pass the 70-058 with a 900/1000. My only complaint was that WINS and DNS topic coverage in this book was null, and I was tested on these topics in more than one occasion on the real exam.

This book takes a while to read, but it gives you a wealth of knowledge. You will feel that you have actually learned something, which makes this book an excellent networking-terminology learning tool as well.

The CD tests included are challenging and they provide a good measure of your real exam readiness. I'd recommend taking these tests once each and only after you have mastered the material completely. The reason is that the test questions (and answer order) are not randomly generated and taking these tests more than once might actually hurt more than benefit your learning.

I recommend this study guide for its value as an exam tool and a networking reference. Complement it with a Cram book, the Sybex's Test Success book (mentioned above), or a source of practice exam questions (Measureup or Transcender) to tackle the NetEss test with confidence.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great "first" book for highschool "interested" students, November 4, 1999

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brian ([e-mail]) (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MCSE Networking Essentials Exam Prep (Exam: 70-058) (Paperback)

There are alot of options of MCSE books out there to choose from. Many opinions relating to each book. I chose this book for it's unique organization. I refer to this book many of times. I am still a student, 17 years old, not quite a master of understand networks, but dedicated to passing exam 70-058. This book is not cluttered with "extra" no-use for words. I have no problem mis-agreeing or mis-understand the author of this book. Very well explained, compared to an instructor reading you the material. If your a student like myself and confused on which book to buy, take your time and read the contents, and decide if it is for you. This exceeds what i was "expecting" and permanetly "stated" the information.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book...needs a little touchup though., May 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: MCSE Networking Essentials Exam Prep (Exam: 70-058) (Paperback)

This book helped me to pass the 70-58 exam with a 900 and I don't really have any networking experience. I would highly recommend it. I would however appreciate it if the publisher would reveiw it again for typos which seemed to be present in quite a few places. This could throw someone like myself off.