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MCSE Windows 2000 Network Administration Study Guide (Exam 70-216) (Book/CD-ROM)

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Excellent Study guide- if you're buying only one book for the 70-216 exam, this should be the one. I spent a week reading the book, and another 3-4 days on the CD . After this time, I was well prpeared for the exam. The book is extremely well done, and accurate. The one surprise I had coming was in regards to the CD. From past Study Guide purchases I was expecting a CD that was in the fair to Ok range. This one was really, really good. It has the entire Study Guide on it, which made it easy for me to carry to work- comes with video, audio tracks for the car, practice exam, etc. I was really happy with this book- my experience with this one made me pick up the Syngress Directory Services book.

This Syngess book was my core study guide and it covered about 90% of the topics on the exam which I passes with an 840. Unfortunatley no one book will cover everything except possibly for the 7000 page Server Resource Kit. I found it to be very accurate compared to the Sybex 70-216 2nd edition book. The core topics are covered very well - dns, wins, dhcp, ip addressing, nat/ics, vpn, ipsec, and rras. Certificate Services could have been more thorough and a more in depth explanation on cidr. The exam tips and two minute drills were very helpul in hammering home the important points and great for final study review. The overall layout of the book was excellent. The end of chapter questions for the most part were nothing like the real exam, so do not count on them to gauge your rediness for the real exam, but to be fair I have not found any book that has realistic exam type questions - the Sybex 70-216 2nd edition is close though. This Syngress book along with LOTS of hands on practice on a home network lab will help prepare you well for the exam. You will NOT be able to pass this exam by ANY book alone. I also recommend extensive use of the onboard help that comes with Windows 2000 - it is a wonderful resource. Also searching the Microsoft website for related articles (dns, dhcp, wins, rras, etc) for further study will serve you well. The Microsoft Readiness Reviews are a good companion practice exams that are similar to the real exam questions. The Syngress 70-216 book is a good choice for your main study guide.

To get a comprehensive understanding of Network activities in windows 2000 environment. It is very good for exam . It is useful for learning. Even good for on the job ref. As an Instructor , I have no doubt that this is a good book. Some topic need more labs and explanations . But it is still one of the best.

I had high hopes for this book based on some of the reviews, but in the end I found myself scratching my head at the unclear explanations of such key areas (e.g. RRAS policies and how they are applied). The book covered all the key subjects (which is more than can be said of even Microsoft's book on 216), but certain topics merit more examples and discussion and this simply wasn't there. (Certificate Services, for example, missed a lot of important details). Even with the labs and hands on, no way is this book alone enough to pass the exam. I used the Microsoft Server Resource Kit to fill in a lot of the holes, as well as some other books, and of course, the Transcender exams.

70-216 is the most difficult exam of the 4 core MCSE 2K exams, I bought this book to prepare for it and never regretted it. I got also Sybex and MS Press books but this one is certainly the best. Buy also "Toubleshooting TCP/IP" book from the same authors/publisher and you will have no problem with the exam and you will be learning more than just how to deal with the questions on the exam (from those 2 books) even if you're new to this subject. Anything less than 4 stars for this book is unfair in my opinion, this is the book you should get if you're deciding between Sybex/MS-Press etc.

With all due respect to the author, this book will come handy this Christmas sitting by the fireplace.
I bought this book to help me in preparing for 70-216, to get more knowledge, informations and so on; thus being confident on the exam.
Instead, what I found that it has so many mistakes, so much redundancy, doesn't get straight to the point and uses to many non-sense words. If I could return it, I definitely would.

This is head and shoulders above the rest of the books in this series.

The book fairly thoroughly covers the material tested on the exam. By itself, it may be enough to get you past this exam, the most demanding (in my opinion) of the four. Overall, I was a little troubled by the lack of editing.

This book covers everithing you will need for the MCSE 70-216 Test, and is very nice orderly built. but what is a bit enoying is all those issues, which a little bit more explenations could have helped complete understanding, but there are only references to other Shinder's books of syngress.This promotion is not what you be expecting from sucha good book !

This book covers many of the most of the basics you need to know in the MCSE exam (DHCP, DNS, WINS).

However, topics on static routing, OSPF, RIP, multicast routing, certificate of authority are definetely not covered enough. You are not given the picture on how OSPF, RIP, multicast and unicast routing, actually works.

If you think you can pass the exam with this book alone, don't bet on it unless you have plenty of experience. My advise on anyone who wishes to take this exam should also purchase the 3 Win2k resource kits (TCP/IP, Internetwork, Distributed System) for a very complete coverage on all the topics covered in this book. With these 4 books, I passed the exam on first try and completed CCNA with ease.

I believe an excellent job was done of often troubling areas of infrastructure and DNS, and while solid studying is required in addition to simply using this book in order to pass 70-216, this book will get you started