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4.0 out of 5 stars
Use this as intended and you'll pass, January 4, 2001
By A Customer
This review is from: MCSE Windows 2000 Network Exam Cram (Exam: 70-216) (Paperback)
I passed 216 today on the first try with this exam cram, the MS Press study guide, and the Resource Kit. The basics are all covered well. IPSEC was covered well, at least as well as you need to know for the exam. This is worth the money, although admittedly it could have been a little stronger in one or two areas (Certificate Server being one of those). Before you buy it, though, make sure you understand one thing - All of the exam crams have one goal: to be used as your study guide AFTER you've spent about a month using other materials. They were never intended to be sole study guides. For instance, this one doesn't go into subnetting because you're SUPPOSED TO ALREADY KNOW HOW TO DO IT! Instead, it tells you how to use the subnetted addresses...get the picture?
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing - Not Detailed Enough for Exam, September 6, 2001
This review is from: MCSE Windows 2000 Network Exam Cram (Exam: 70-216) (Paperback)
While this series of books was excellant for the A-plus and Net-plus exams, and an invaluable aid for the Cisco CCNA exam, they have completely missed the mark for the W2K MSCE. I can only assume from the positive reviews I see here that those reviews were for the NT 4.0 version of this book or that MS had changed the W2K exam structure since this book was published. The book gives an excellant high level understanding of the subject and is a great desk reference, but the MS exam requires detailed knowledge to the command-option-switch level, and that sort of detail is sadly missing. The practice and sample exams within also concentrate in straight "how-to" or "why-do" type questions and answers and do not at all prepare one for the "mini-scenerio" question format MS has migrated to on all their exams. The only W2K MCSE prep books I have seen so far (and I have looked at several) that actully contain all of the technical detail necessary for doing well on the exam is the MS press W2k MCSE prep guide (its boring and hard to stay awake using it, but all the info that might come up on the exam is definately in there). Unfortunately, this Exam Cram book falls far short of having the info needed.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Don't listen to the bad reviews !!!, February 22, 2002
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This review is from: MCSE Windows 2000 Network Exam Cram (Exam: 70-216) (Paperback)
If you are completely new to networking, then this book may leave you with the feeling that it was too "skimpy". If however you have an understanding of networking you will probably love it. [....] Overall, I think this is a great book. If you ARE new to networking, I suggest reading their tcp/ip book first. And if you are taking the exam you may want to read troytec (or whatever they call themselves now) in conjuction with this book. But I think this is a great nook!
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