MCSA Windows(r) 2000 Certification All-in-One Exam Guide (Exams 70-210, 70-215, 70-218) [Hardcover]

Damir Bersinic (Author), Stephen Giles (Author), Rob Scrimger (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 26, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0072224215 | ISBN-13: 978-0072224214 | Edition: 1

Covering the three core exams, this volume offers solutions to the MCSA. This administrator-level Microsoft certification covers day-to-day administration tasks and issues.

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From the Back Cover

Prepare to pass all three core exams required for MCSA certification

Get complete coverage of all the material contained on MCSA Windows 2000 certification exams 70-210, 70-215, and 70-218 inside this single, comprehensive volume. You'll find official exam objectives at the beginning of each chapter, helpful exam tips, end-of-chapter practice questions, plus helpful illustrations. This definitive, dual-purpose resource serves as both a complete certification study tool and an on-the-job reference.

Get full details on all exam objectives, including how to:

• Manage Windows 2000 hardware configuration
• Configure network adapters
• Configure, administer, and troubleshoot DHCP on servers and client computers
• Configure Windows 2000 Dial Up Networking clients
• Create and manage Local Users and Groups
• Install, configure, monitor, and troubleshoot Terminal Services
• Manage Windows 2000 security configuration using Group Policy
• Configure Windows 2000 disks for fault tolerance
• Recover system state and user data using Windows Backup

Includes simulated exam with hundreds of practice questions and answers on CD

About the Author

Stephen Giles (Toronto, Canada), MCSE, MCDBA, MCT, CTT, has spent the last 3 years teaching, writing about, and working with Microsoft and Oracle products. Damir Bersinic (Mississauga, Canada), MCSE, MCDBA, MCT, has more than 17 years' of PC industry experience, including more than 7 years' working with Microsoft NT and BackOffice, and 11 years' working with SQL Server, Oracle, and other products.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 992 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (June 26, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072224215
• ISBN-13: 978-0072224214
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.8 x 2.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,091,430 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars 3 1/2 stars - needs more coverage of each exam., September 13, 2002

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Michael J Woznicki "Michael J Woznicki" (Holland, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: MCSA Windows(r) 2000 Certification All-in-One Exam Guide (Exams 70-210, 70-215, 70-218) (Hardcover)

In the process of reviewing books one thing I have found is that when you try to combine several exams in one book you usually have problems trying to cover all the exams. For the most part this book does not come under that rule, however the book could be updated with more information for each exam.

In over 950 pages the 70-210, 70-215 and 70-218 exams are broken down with over 175 exercises. This book is a great self study tool but I found it to be a little difficult to adapt to a classroom environment with some of the exercises.

From installation to upgrading, configurations of both hardware and software, through management of the network and servers and great coverage of TCP/IP, these are but a few of the topics discussed in the pages.

The review questions are right in line with the exams and the book is not broken down by exam but rather it incorporates the exams together making a much better flow of material. The cdrom has the entire e-book, as well as lab simulations and 300 plus practice questions.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Watch out for incorrect information., December 23, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: MCSA Windows(r) 2000 Certification All-in-One Exam Guide (Exams 70-210, 70-215, 70-218) (Hardcover)

At first I was fairly impressed with this book. It has lots of pictures that help you reference exactly where you are in the steps of instruction that they give. There were a couple of obvious errors in the first chapter (800x60,Windows 200) that concerned me a little, but were not too alarming. In tests after the chapter I found one obvious error (Chapter 16 Question 3... do the math). I had had some reservations about some of the other questions and this did not help.
Then while taking the 2000 Professional masterexam on the CD, I ran into a question that talked about the winnt.sif configuration file. The reference material said that this was covered in Chapter 1. WRONG. Search the PDF... they never covered the information in that question.
While taking the 2000 Server masterexam on the CD, I got the question "How can you assign an application to one processor exclusively?" According to the masterexam the answer is to right-click on the "executable, select properties and select assign processor." The correct answer is to use Task Manager to Set Affinity. At least the reference material was correct.
The quantity and nature of the errors makes me question everything I "learned". For anyone who is new to networking, this book possibly has enough errors to guarantee that the person fail the tests. This book is worse that useless in my opinion.

2.0 out of 5 stars Easy to read, but not very useful, April 24, 2006

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Erik Nettekoven (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: MCSA Windows(r) 2000 Certification All-in-One Exam Guide (Exams 70-210, 70-215, 70-218) (Hardcover)

Although the book is easy to read and there is some humor in it, it does not prepare you for the actual exam. The microsoft prepartion guide is actually the best out there to really prepare you for the exam.

This book is way to theoratical and does not go in depth for the actual solution(s) to specific cases.

All the real-life situations the authors been through and also describing them make the authors look a little bit arrogant. In some cases they try to hard to be funny, but let's put that aside because that is not why the book was written.