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Title: Microsoft® Proxy Server 2.0 MCSE Study System by Curt Simmons ISBN: 0-7645-3336-3 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 19 May, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (18 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Wastes space, wrong audience
Comment: I'm working as an assistant IT admin and recently got certified under Proxy (I was already MCSE/A+). I bought this book, as well as a few others, to educate myself on the product as well as prepare for the exam. I was disappointed with this book for two reasons. First, the book spends the first 100 pages or so (almost a third of the book) on things other than Proxy: TCP/IP, IIS, etc. While comprehension of these topics is an absolute necessity for installing, configuring and maintaining a proxy server, the author did not cover them in sufficient detail to make their inclusion worthwhile. When the author does get around to Proxy itself, he gives thin descriptions of the issues. Which leads to my second problem. The book isn't really appropriate for the NT novice, but then again, it's not meaty enough for someone who's not. Most of the needed topics are covered, but only just. Much more could have been said about client installation, performance monitoring and common errors associated with arrays and chains. The step-by-step instructions are well-written and there is a PDF version of the book on the CD that's included, but the end of chapter questions are even worse than most books. Also, don't let the lure of extra test questions on the CD fool you; you'd have to fork over an extra $100 to get enough of them to do you any good. Keep looking.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great book AND reference guide.
Comment: I am an MCSE+Internet, CIW, A+, Network+, and I-net+ professional.
I made an incredible score on this exam, and this book deserves all of the credit. It thoroughly covers every aspect of setup AND each and every aspect of administration. MOST OF ALL, it includes great screen shots and incredible labs.
The earlier version of the book included a large number of mistakes, according to the earlier reviews, but I only came across a small few in this version. He went WAY too much into IIS, but didn't cover Winsock administration any where near enough.
The beachfront quizzer is poor--very poor, so don't even bother installting it. BUT the PDF version of the book along with the evalution version of PROXY came in very handy.
This book is all that you need to certify yourself in proxy.
Rating: 5
Summary: GREAT BOOK
Comment: Don't listen to nay sayers who don't like this book. If you want to learn about firewalls, proxy'ing, and the like this book is for you. This book changed my life insofaras it taugh me advanced TCP/IP. Firewall functionality is all about TCP/IP really and if you want to pass the MCSE exam it's a MUST HAVE. Great job Curt! I just purchased Curt's ISA 2000 book. I can't wait to read it.
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Title: MCSA/MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exams 70-292 and 70-296): Upgrading Your Certification to Microsoft Windows Server 2003 by Microsoft Corporation, Dan Holme, Orin Thomas ISBN: 0735619719 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 10 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $69.99 |
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Title: MCSA/MCSE/MCDBA Self-Paced Training Kit: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 System Administration, 70-228, Second Edition by Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Corporation ISBN: 0735619611 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 14 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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