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MCSE Windows 2000 Directory Services Administration Study Guide (Exam 70-217)

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As always happen with Osborne books, there is nothing intresting in the CD aside from a single test set, without even a test engine software and even you may find wrong answers. No random question/answer and nothing.

The book is quite good, it covers almost all you need for the exam and also offers good practices for daily tasks. If you completed server and ws. and has the basic experience of Active directory just go through this book and you will be ready for the exam.

I just used this book for preparing for Active Directory exam (70-217), it's really a great book covers everything you will face in the exam. the book is well organized and also the CD has alot of useful practice questions, and one complete practice exam although it doesn't like the real one but it's just good.

The book content is good that it disect topics into great details. One weakness though is that it has too many pages that sometimes you'll get lost from the main topic. Good as reference material for real world application.

This book provides a good introduction to Active Directory for someone who is new to Windows 2000 server. The quality of writing is much better than what's found in most study guides. For the most part, what it covers is covered in a clear and understandable manner, but there are big gaps in what's covered. Also, I found a couple of really big factual errors.

So I'd say, if you are new to Active directory, get this book, and read it quickly once over to get the concepts, but then put it down and find something else to really dig into the details of AD - Something such as the Distributed Systems Guide from the resource kit.

One other thing, the binding on my copy broke and now the book is physically falling apart. And I didn't even use it very heavily.

I bought this book based on the reviews and I found it to be a joke. The exercises are totally vague(Ex-author tell you to go in and play around with groups and GPO's)I mean go-in and play around with something that you've NEVER used!!!! This is one complaint I've had and the CD is AWFUL-If you can hear him performing the exercises. I went with Microsoft on this one, I looked at SYBEX(Almost as bad as this one) and found Microsoft's Text to make sense and the exercises are good. My recommendation from a guy who bought this book-If you want to use it to pass the exam-Forget it-If you want to use it for some household feature(like standing on it) then go for it

I passed 217 with plenty of room to spare using mainly this book, in addition to a test network.

This book, as the rest of this series, explains all the topics clearly and with plenty depth. And it isn't so dry that it will put you to sleep (same with the rest of this series).

I used this series through 8 of my 15 MCP certifications, and was very pleased with them all. (And I've never failed a certification exam). This is truly a great series...

This book contains all that is neccessary for Exam 70-217.
I recomend it any time for anyone looking forward for success

70-217: 63 questions & pass/fail. Best MS exam so far.

I used this book and also the sybex book. If you do not know what AD is read the "Introduction to AD" in the server manual first (technet). This gives you the best intro to AD!!
And then use these 2 books to prepaire yourself for the test.

To finish it up, use The Transcender test: Study the explanations, use the references that Transcender uses in
the test (technet, Resource KIT etc). AND YOU WILL PASS !!

Long exam, but fair.

good luck

I only used this book to pass in the 70-217 exam, but you have to use some additional tools like transcender simulates. The real exam has 63 questions and you have approximately 3 hours to conclude it.

I am currently taking a classroom course to get the MCSE, and the Global Knowledge Certification Press MCSE study guides are the books provided by the school. We have two certs left to go, but my class has already convinced the administration to drop these books. Yes, they are that bad. Explanations that assume you already understand the topic, or worse yet assume the topic is self-explanatory are the norm in these books. Labs leave out critical steps that make doing any part of the exercise impossible. All in all, this entire series of MCSE books is not worth your hard earned money. If you are seriously studying for your MCSE, stay as far away from this series as you can.