Customer Reviews

MCSE Test Success(TM): TCP/IP for NT 4

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I am a fan of the Test Success series. They have been good for me. Until this one. Today I got a score of 933 on the TCP/IP exam, mostly because I ingored the direction this book would have taken me. Don't be lulled by the other useful books in this series.

This is a very good book to prepare you for the TCP/IP test. I spend one full month on this book and "TCP/IP for NT SERVER 4 Study Guide third editon" from SYBEX. The result is a testing score of 965. I am very happy about these two books.

You should not solely rely on this book because it does not give you a lot of explanations. The purpose of this book is to help you to learn what kind of questions might appear on the test. You need a study guide to help you also.

By the way, I believe it is very important to have at least two computers to practice networking. It is not an good idea to just read books cover to cover.

This book is bad. I used cybex books to pass the NT core exams (networking essentials, NT server, NT Enterprise, and NT workstation) and loved them. This one is awful, I think Cybex should refund my money.

This book got it all wrong . It has not got any idea of what's on the exam and does not test the application part of any topic ,which is excatly what is needed .Some of the topics are unnecessarily stressed upon.

I red this book to pass the exam I found some very useful questions but a lot of questions where off track you need definitely some other books to really pass the exam, save your money

I have used all of the Test Sucess series books (Not Exclusively - hint) To assist me in becoming an MCSE. This book was off track in a lot of ways, the low ratings are justified in this case. Fast Track and the Exam notes for TCP/IP were more helpful in the prep work.

If you're looking for a book with questions that will prepare you for the TCP/IP for NT 4.0 MCSE exam, I suggest that you buy a different book. I used this book to prepare for the exam, and found that the format and actual content of the questions were much different from those presented in the book. Specifically, the book is very lacking in the areas of internetwork browsing and Unix integration, areas which I found the actual exam to focus on extensively. If you're taking the exam, make sure to find a book that covers these topics adequately.

Having used 4 other test success books this one is quite bad. The first chapter on subnetting is awful and has some very simple mistakes. I suggest looking elsewhere. I'm using the MCSE Study Guide from Sybex which is good (some mistakes still), the NTServer 4.0 Networking Resource kit manual and the Transcender exams.

I'm very dissapointed with this book. I have read others Test Success books and this is the worst. This book is not test oriented. In some chapters it just give you some general information of TCP/IP on NT. In others it goes into many NT details that I thought I was studing for NT Server test again.

This book is of the "Procure a Pressure Hull; Install the Reactor" school of instruction. (From "How to Build a Nuclear Submarine-the radio commercial") The authors seem to be masters at intuitive leaps into limbo. If you don't know anything about TCP/IP this is a good one to avoid. If you do, don't read this book until you know enough not to be confused by waffling.