MCSE Windows 2000 Core Four Exam Prep Pack (Exam: 70-210, 70-215, 70-216, 70-217) [Hardcover]

Ed Tittel (Author), Kurt Hudson (Author), James Michael Stewart (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 24, 2000 | ISBN-10: 157610771X | ISBN-13: 978-1576107713

The MCSE Windows 2000 Core-Four Exam Prep Pack includes: MCSE Windows 2000 Directory Services Exam Prep, MCSE Windows 2000 Network Exam Prep, MCSE Windows 2000 Professional Exam Prep, and MCSE Windows 2000 Server Exam Prep. Includes four CDs containing 8 practice tests. Features updated content 100% focused on the Core Four Exams, and revised practice tests. Each book includes two complete practice exams with questions designed to assess the reader's readiness to sit for the exam and answers and explanations that reinforce the reasoning behind the correct answers. The MCSE Windows 2000 Core-Four Exam Prep Pack includes: MCSE Windows 2000 Directory Services Exam Prep, MCSE Windows 2000 Network Exam Prep, MCSE Windows 2000 Professional Exam Prep, and MCSE Windows 2000 Server Exam Prep. Covers exams 70-217, 70-216, 70-210, 70-215

Product Details

• Hardcover: 2744 pages
• Publisher: Coriolis Group Books (October 24, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 157610771X
• ISBN-13: 978-1576107713
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8.2 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,508,177 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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35 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EXAM PREP0 IS THE BEST, December 18, 2000

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"jeffchildress" (CENTREVILLE, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MCSE Windows 2000 Core Four Exam Prep Pack (Exam: 70-210, 70-215, 70-216, 70-217) (Hardcover)

You can not go wrong with this product it is best, it tells you
straight up what to study for the tests. Unlike Microsofts versions
which lead seem to lead you astray, and lost. Plus it tells you the
tips and tricks to use when taking the test. It tells you how
Microsoft Exams try to trick you in picking the wrong answer. You get
a understanding of how everything works in plain english without
having to hunt down and research for the answers like the microsoft
version of these books. A number of my friends, also swear by these
products and this book. If you want the BEST then this is it.

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not the best, March 5, 2001

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Lawrence E. Porter (Washington D.C.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MCSE Windows 2000 Core Four Exam Prep Pack (Exam: 70-210, 70-215, 70-216, 70-217) (Hardcover)

These books are adequate for general review, but you must supplement them, both with experience and other books. My four main problems with them are:

1. Badly edited and reviewed for acccuracy. I have been designing and installing networks for five years, and found several outright factual errors in each book, and not ones that could be attributed to changes in the software since publication. Some of these were trivial, but I was left wondering what else was incorrect.

2. Practice tests have problems, the biggest being scoring answers as wrong when in fact you get them right. This happens because the format the testing system puts the answers in is different from the answers it uses to check the test with, especially in the non-multiple choice questions.

3. Is there ever going to be a product that delivers as advertised? The "update" feature on the testing system, which is supposed to download new questions, has no new questions to download, and this after giving them some personal info. I thought that perhaps they had dumped support for it in favor of the online practice testing they have at their website (for which you have to register, again), and then found the "practice" tests were nothing but the exact same written sample tests found in the back of each book.

4. Worst of all, in my opinion, and the most expected problem when I purchased them, was the inconsistency of the text. The books are written by different people, which is fine, but sometimes it seems they fill in sections by giving you step-by-step instructions on how to perform mostly mundane tasks without actually explaining any functionality, thus giving you alot of useless fluff.

I cannot recommend much in the way of an alternative, except perhaps the MS Press Core books, except I have heard that some of those are pretty bad as well, and they don't come with a testing system, however bad, that is an alternative to shelling out another $100 per test in order to take the MS-appproved ones. Again, these books helped me pass my tests, but only because I tempered them well, with my own experience and supplemental reading.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It is not only passing the exam, December 15, 2001

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Fathi Mahdi Al-Jeshi (Qatif, Saudi Arabia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MCSE Windows 2000 Core Four Exam Prep Pack (Exam: 70-210, 70-215, 70-216, 70-217) (Hardcover)

I beleive that these books are not only for passing the exam but also for learning what is need in those subjects. I used these books and I pass the four core already. I plan to buy the other ones for the electives too. In these books they show you screen shots which are not needed in the exam but you need them if you need to work with W2K products.