MCSE: Windows 2000 Network Security Design Exam Notes(tm) [Paperback]

Gary Govanus Robert King (Author)

Book Description

Series: MCSE Exam Notes | Publication Date: October 4, 2000

This text provides help to prepare for the Exam 70-220, Designing Security for a Mircrosoft Windows 2000 Network, and covers the following: Windows 2000 Network; analyzing business requirements; analyzing technical requirements; analyzing security requirements; designing a Windows 2000 security solution; designing a security solution for access between networks; designing security for communication channels.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Sybex Inc; 1st edition (October 4, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782127665
• ISBN-13: 978-0782127669
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,581,373 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Here's hoping the next ed. has major revisions, October 23, 2000

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Scott Mohr (Fresno, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MCSE: Windows 2000 Network Security Design Exam Notes(tm) (Paperback)

I've been using this book for a couple of months now, teaching from it to my MCSE students. I would not recommend Govanus & King. Their writing style makes it very difficult to understand the material. They often use undefined terms causing one to have many reference texts open on one's desk to even understand them. I find my students getting lost in the chapters as well due to poor chapter structure. The info is there, but it's not very easy to glean the important material from this one. Save your money, this material does not meet Sybex's usually high standards.

I found the book to be a little offensive as well due to the numerous off-color remarks and profanity present in the book. (Although the profanity may be considered light, I see it as wholly unnecessary.)

One such remark was "You would have to be living under a rock for the last five years not to have used a DNS name..." Do the authors realize that only about 5% of the world has even used the internet or a computer? Do we really need to catagorize everyone who hasn't their level of knowledge as "living under a rock"? That's the tone of the book however.

4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable & informative, September 29, 2001

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Mark Edmunds (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MCSE: Windows 2000 Network Security Design Exam Notes(tm) (Paperback)

I found this book not only very informative & funny. The only reason I didn't give the 5th star is that it was written before the exam was released & the practice questions, while helpful to reinforce fundamentals, did not match what the exam authors came up with. In the real world, I'd trust Gary & Bob far more than the exam authors with security of a network. For sitting in a little room facing tough questions, add a good practice exam to run the score up. This book helped me pass on the first try.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Slim to none and slim left town, June 1, 2001

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Michael Andrews "ob1gern" (New Orleans, Louisiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MCSE: Windows 2000 Network Security Design Exam Notes(tm) (Paperback)

I picked up this book to see if Sybex had a different angle on test 220. Due to it being different than all other tests with "choose, move and link " items in the test. By page 12 in the text they use the phase "slim to none, and slim left town" describing your chances of being called infront of shareholders. PLEASE! In addition still in the first section they begin stabs at Bill Gates "(isn't that right Mr. Gates?)"

The authors have a very poor choice of wording throughout the entire book and side jokes that are dumb and inappropriate. I rate this as the worst "tech" book I have ever read.

The last criticism is lack of spell check before going to press. Page 11 begins the errors with the following phrase "This stuff is more of the "for your information" ILK". From this point on either grammer or mispelled words riddle the text.

Save the money and time.