MCSE Training Kit (Exam 70-221): Designing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure (MCSE Training Kits) [Hardcover]

Microsoft Corporation (Author)

Book Description

Series: MCSE Training Kits | Publication Date: May 25, 2001

This official "MCSE Training Kit" teaches It professionals how to design a network infrastructure in Windows 2000 -- as they prepare for MCP Exam 70-221, a core elective on the new Windows 2000 MCSE track. The kit balances conceptual information with practical application: students learn through an integrated system of skill-building tutorials, case study examples, and self-assessment tools. Topics map directly to the objectives measured by the MCSE exam, including analyzing business requirements; evaluating technical requirements; designing a network infrastructure in Windows 2000; planning for Internet connectivity; designing a wide area network infrastructure; and creating a strategy for implementing, monitoring, and managing network services. Business scenario examples help students apply the concepts they learn to real-world work situations. An economical alternative to classroom instruction, this "MCSE Training Kit" enables students to set their own pace and learn by doing!

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Windows networks don't exist in a vacuum. If you're planning to connect multiple Windows 2000 computers (as well as machines running older versions of Windows) on a network--and who isn't?--you need to make sure those computers can see and identify each other, and that they can share information speedily and securely. MCSE Training Kit: Designing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure helps you understand how to build Windows networks from the ground up, and how to integrate Windows services into existing local and wide area networks (LANs and WANs). What's more, the book includes review and self-quiz sections that are meant to prepare you for the Microsoft Network Infrastructure exam (#70-221), which you have to pass if you're after the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) certification.

This book derives its organization from Microsoft's published objectives for the Network Infrastructure exam. In taking on each objective, the authors--internal Microsoft documentation writers--explain the engineering question at stake (such as how best to optimize Microsoft Proxy Server for Internet access) before explaining alternative solutions with pros and cons for each. Because this book--and the test it prepares its readers for--is concerned with questions of design, how-to instructions and screen shots are less important than network diagrams and design worksheets. The companion CD-ROM includes a timed evaluation copy of Windows 2000 Advanced Server, as well as a searchable electronic copy of the text and a key to access online review questions. --David Wall

Topics covered: The published objectives of the Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure exam (#70-221), including analysis of customer requirements, design of addressing schemes, multiprotocol routing, and remote-access solutions.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 930 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1st edition (May 25, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735611335
• ISBN-13: 978-0735611337
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,108,334 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Go elsewhere, August 16, 2001

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David Needham (Grantham, Lincs United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MCSE Training Kit (Exam 70-221): Designing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure (MCSE Training Kits) (Hardcover)

I've heard good things about some of the other MSPress guides, but unfortunately this one makes even their 70-216 study guide look like a masterpiece. The book is short on real information and contains massive ammounts of repetition e.g. much of the info in the IP routing section is repeated in the IPX routing. The writing style is dry with very little effort is made to convey understanding and many of the diagrams are utterly meaningless even with prior understanding of the point that is being made. Typical of this is the fact that every single time a diagram includes a connection to the internet the public interface of the router/proxy is shown as having a private address (172.16.x.x.) and a note is included saying that for the purposes of this diagram 172.16.x.x is to be regarded as a public IP address range- why not just make the diagram accurate! Buy ANY other book, nothing could be as bad as this one.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The most boring book I have ever read, August 28, 2001

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David Brennan (Bangkok, Bangkok Thailand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MCSE Training Kit (Exam 70-221): Designing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure (MCSE Training Kits) (Hardcover)

A waste of time and money. The information is in this book is repetitive and badly presented. The writing style is boring to the extreme. Having passed seven exams and this being my last, this book almost put me off continuing.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Almost useless for the exam!, September 5, 2002

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Net Admin / Home Chef (Sterling, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: MCSE Training Kit (Exam 70-221): Designing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure (MCSE Training Kits) (Hardcover)

I took and passed the 70-221 exam yesterday despite buying this book. There is very little technical information here and if you have passed the the core exams on Professional, Server, Network Admin, and Active Directory, then you already know more than they tell you here. Secret to success is a good test prep simulation like Transcender. The forms and information collection methodology presented here could be useful in a real design perhaps but have little or nothing to do with what is on the test.