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MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-298): Designing Security for a Microsoft® Windows Server(TM) 2003 Network [Hardcover]

Roberta Bragg (Author)
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0735619697 978-0735619692 February 4, 2004

Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCP Exam 70-298—and on the job—with this official Microsoft study guide. Work at your own pace through a system of lessons, practice exercises, and design activities.

The Readiness Review Suite on CD, featuring advanced technology from MeasureUp, provides 300 challenging questions for in-depth self-assessment and practice. You can choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests, or focus on specific objectives. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers—including a customized learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies.

Maximize your performance on the exam by learning how to:

  • Document the impact of business and technical constraints on the security design process

Create a security design for:

  • Logical infrastructure
  • Network infrastructure for physical security
  • Network management and maintenance
  • Basic network functions
  • Wireless networks and Web servers

Readiness Review Suite on CD Powered by MeasureUp

Your kit includes:

  • NEW—Fully reengineered self-paced study guide with expert exam tips.
  • NEW—Readiness Review Suite featuring 300 questions and multiple testing options.
  • NEW—Practice exercises and design activities for real-world expertise.
  • NEW—180-day evaluation version of Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition.
  • NEW—eBook in PDF format.
  • NEW—Microsoft Encyclopedia of Security eBook.
  • Microsoft Encyclopedia of Networking, Second Edition eBook.

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About the Author

Roberta Bragg's computing life started in 1975. She has been employed as an operator, programmer, systems administrator, network administrator, security consultant, trainer, teacher, editor and author. Her many publications include five programming and administration instruction curriculum guides, six certification guides, four technical reference books, hundreds of freelance IT oriented articles and seven years as a columnist on Windows security. Currently she consults and writes on information security.

Roberta lives in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, 12 blocks from the Kansas City Arts Incubator where she produces and sells glass fused and slumped objects, and stained glass mosaics.


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 700 pages
  • Publisher: Microsoft Press (February 4, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0735619697
  • ISBN-13: 978-0735619692
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.6 x 1.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #424,380 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars It seems many reviewers don't understand, April 27, 2005
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This review is from: MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-298): Designing Security for a Microsoft® Windows Server(TM) 2003 Network (Hardcover)
The purpose of this book is not to teach you the technical aspects of security in Active Directory, rather to teach you best security practices in use and deployment of this technology. The 70-298 exam should be one of the last you on the MCSE track. Microsoft assumes that you have already taken your workstation and core 4 exams by the time you get to this one.

That said, the book is helpful but not comprehensive, in helping you prepare for this exam from a CONCEPTUAL, not technical perspective.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Thorough Review, July 14, 2004
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William V. Osullivan "wosully" (Springfield, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-298): Designing Security for a Microsoft® Windows Server(TM) 2003 Network (Hardcover)
Unlike some of the other opinions that have been written regarding this book, I found it highly useful and would certainly recommend it to anyone who does not just want bare memorization material for an exam, but truly desires to learn about Micosoft security.

I have three MCSE's, and I have just obtained my MCSE: Security on Server 2003; and, I will keep this book for continued professional reference.

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13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible Book, February 10, 2005
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This review is from: MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-298): Designing Security for a Microsoft® Windows Server(TM) 2003 Network (Hardcover)
Usually, i really like the training books of MSPress for Windows Server 2003 - But this one is an exeption.

The Problem with this book was, after i read a chapter, i knew exactly as much as before. This is not because i am a security-guru (really i'm not) , it is because of the bad writing style. Sometimes it isn't really clear what the writer wants to say with the lessons and if he takes the reader serious.

Another Problem with this book, it is full of so called "considerations" and "guidelines" instead of a serious, stong security training (most of them are really useless because they are so obvious that you know those even without the book).

I strongly recommend to do not use this Book for 70-298 Training, even if you are a fan of the MSPress series. It's not worth the money.
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Creating the conceptual design for network infrastructure security by gathering and analyzing business and technical requirements. Read the first page
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security update infrastructure, network access quarantine control, baseline security template, include connecting branch offices, client computer management, application pool identity, affect security design, certificate chaining process, review the lesson materials, incremental security templates, review these key points, remote access policy conditions, decryption strategy, designing secure communications, phone book server, segment internal networks, domain trust models, information security design, baseline template, administrative template settings, application pool identities, common business drivers, file recovery agent, selective authentication, connecting corporate networks
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Windows Server, Active Directory, Tailspin Toys, Wingtip Toys, Design Activity, Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, New York, Coho Winery, Page Lesson, Microsoft Web, Exam Tip, Cancel Figure, Internet Information Services, Security Guide, Getting Started, Software Update Services, Page Exercise, Connection Manager, Domain Admins, Enterprise Admins, San Francisco, Secure Sockets Layer, Internet Authentication Service, Interviews Following
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