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Test Yourself MCSE Windows 2000 Server (Exam 70-215)

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This is a superb book for preparing for the MCSE exam test 70-215. It contains wonderful coverage of all of the exam objectives, as well as hundreds of practice questions. The questions are well worded, complex, and challenging, exactly the way I expect the test to be.

This book will make a wonderful study guide for anyone trying to become 2000 certified, and for MCSE NT folks who are trying to maintain their certification. I highly recommend it!

Fortunately, I had taken a Win2k Server certification class and read a couple of other books before buying this book. Because of that solid background, I identified one blatant error after another in this book, up to about page 50, at which point I literally tossed the book into the trashcan. It was more than just a waste of time. These errors could cause a person to miss test questions on the real test.

It's really a shame that Syngress/Osborne finds it too much of a bother to verify the technical accuracy of all their books. Once you've paid for it, they have your money but you don't have a viable product for the exchange.

Using Mark Minasi's readable and technically accurate Windows 2000 Server book and lots of time with TestOut and Transcender test questions, I recently passed the Server exam and 2 more with flying colors. But, this book wasted precious study time before I finally tossed it. Please learn from my mistake and pass on it.

This book along with the rest of the Syngress series is all you need to pass the Win 2k MCSE exams. Just pick up the Syngress hard cover guide, the exam cram for each test, and this set of questions...and you will be ready for the test END

if you want an easy reviewer buy this and suffer the consequence... if you want realistic exam go look for other.

This is classic. I found it in the first 15 pages. I wonder what awaits in the rest of the book.

here are answers to one very basic question asked in two different places about upgrading a mirrored NT server:

answer to question 2:

"Leave the disk mirroring unchanged..you do not need to break the mirror to successfully upgrade windows nt 4. breaking the mirror only is necessary if you want to perform a clean install."

answer to question 15:

"you must first break the mirror sets in all existing servers that have windows nt 4 mirroring...this is not required however, when you are performing a clean install."

question 15 doesn't even mention any software NT RAID5 on the NT4 machines!

That's Inexcusable. Expecially since this book is basically just a practice test with almost no information. At least get the answers correct.

This book has thousands of questions on the Windows 2000 server exam, but very little background information on where the questions are coming from. This would not be the only book you'd need to take and pass the exam, but answering hundreds of additional questions in the study process has to be good for your review process...

This is classic. I found it in the first 15 pages. I wonder what awaits in the rest of the book.

here are answers to one very basic question asked in two different places about upgrading a mirrored NT server:

answer to question 2:

"Leave the disk mirroring unchanged..you do not need to break the mirror to successfully upgrade windows nt 4. breaking the mirror only is necessary if you want to perform a clean install."

answer to question 15:

"you must first break the mirror sets in all existing servers that have windows nt 4 mirroring...this is not required however, when you are performing a clean install."

The answers contradicted themselves in both places - the place where you can upgrade and when you can't. They say the complete opposite thing. That would be two wrong answers on an exam.

question 15 doesn't even mention any software NT RAID5 on the NT4 machines!

That's Inexcusable. Expecially since this book is basically just a practice test with almost no information. At least get the answers correct.