Customer Reviews

MSCE : NT Server 4 in the Enterprise Study Guide

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I think the bad reviews about this book have been unfair. First of all, NO single book is the panacea for the test. You will always need some complement, be it a cram book or a source of exam simulation questions. I bought this book and also the MCSE Readiness Review from Microsoft Press (ISBN: 0735605394, read my review) and passed the adaptive test without a sweat.

There will be more benefit from this book if you have already taken the NT Server test and you have the material still fresh in your mind.

This book covers adquately all the exam objectives. The highlights of the book were: Trust relationships, Netware Connectivity (Migration tool for Netware), Macintosh Services, multiprotcol routing, DHCP, WINS, DSNS, TCP/IP and troubleshooting.

Only two topics were not covered as expected: Network Monitor and Performance Monitor. They missed other tiny (but important)details regarding how to enable the disk counters for RAID (diskperf -ye) and the name of the Win 95 policy file (CONFIG.POL vs NTCONFIG.POL). Many questions showed up on my test related to these topics, and that's were my "backup" book came in to the rescue.

Overall, this is and adequate book. Don't hesitate to buy it. Make sure to weed out the errors by visiting the errata section on the Sybex web site. Also, don't forget to complement it with with a cram book and/or a source of exam questions (as I did).

Recommended.

I've read a total of 3 NT Server study guides. I couldn't say I passed the exam without help from this book.

This book did help me pass the exam. However, there are a few objectives that are not covered in the detail needed to pass the exam.

Questions at the end of the chapters are a bit too easy.

Would buy it again, but for this exam you need more than one book.

I really enjoyed this book. When I passed the adaptive exam I KNOW I got 14 of the 15 questions right and think I probably got the other, one, too. About overlap in the series, well, the microsoft core exams have a lot of overlap. It's not the authors fault. About errors, the microsoft way is not always right. You have to learn a few 'wrong' ways to pass their exams. But, yes, the cybex books do explain a few (I've found two) things in ways that will lead you to answer a question or two wrong. Something about manditory profiles being cached locally and upgrading from 95 to NT (you can email me if your concered and need the 'right way'). Otherwise, these books are great. My employer thinks I superman since I've passed four exams in two months.

This study guide covers a good half of the material on the exam.

There are a few errors, and you can find better sample tests on the internet than the ones on the CD ROM.

Questions at the end of the chapter are a bit too easy... compared to questions on the actual exam.

I passed the exam by not only studying this book but also TWO other study guides.

I would consider this book an essential study guide for this exam. The problem is that for this exam it seems no one study guide hits the mark with an A+, so you may want to buy several.

This book got me through the exam in 14 days. The coverage of trust relationships is excellent, as are the chapters on Macintosh and Netware compatibility. The book helps dispel the myth that Enterprise is somehow a difficult exam by MCSE standards. But some of the review answers are definitely wrong!

I generally found this book to be informative and accurate. There are a lot of repetition from companion Sybex MCSE books, though. The book's coverage of user roaming profiles, though, is completely wrong. Please pay attention to this.

I've just passed this fourth exam of MCSE and I'm really glad I left a few days before taking it, to go through other tests from other vendors and the MS Readiness Review book. It was then that I discovered that this book covers about HALF the detail you need to know! This was quite a surprise - the Sybex NT Server 4, Workstation 4 and Net Essentials books have been excellent. This book overlaps far too much info with the NT Server 4 book, about 70% I reckon, whereas the test overlaps about 10%. In summary, an excellent book if you haven't read NT Server 4, and you don't need to pass the exam for which it was intended to be a study guide.

I've just passed this fourth exam of MCSE and I'm really glad I left a few days before taking it, to go through other tests from other vendors and the MS Readiness Review book. It was then that I discovered that this book covers about HALF the detail you need to know! This was quite a surprise - the Sybex NT Server 4, Workstation 4 and Net Essentials books have been excellent. This book overlaps far too much info with the NT Server 4 book, about 70% I reckon, whereas the test overlaps about 10%. In summary, an excellent book if you haven't read NT Server 4, and you don't need to pass the exam for which it was intended to be a study guide.

This book is a waste of money. It just repeats information from the NT Server / Workstation Guides by Sybex - which I felt were well done and helped me to pass the exams. It's poorly written, unstructured and does not cover the important 'Enterprise' components for this MCSE certification in any great depth. I'll be using my Osborne guide / New Riders Fast Track for my 4th MCSE exam.

The book lacked important details. When I finished I could identify most of the products but had no in-depth knowledge of any of them. Repeats everything from Server and Workstation (again) and leaves out a lot of the Enterprise stuff. Something as expensive as this should cover the subjects in much more detail.