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Title: MCSE Windows 2000 Accelerated Study Guide (Exam 70-240) (Book/CD-ROM package) by Tom Shinder, Littlejohn Debra Shinder, Thomas W. Shinder, Debra Littlejohn Shinder ISBN: 0-07-212500-4 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 06 October, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.53 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I nailed the Accelerated test!
Comment: Very good book to get you up to speed on the 70-240 exam. The material had the subjects on my exam nailed down. The gazillions of practice questions and movies on the CD helped quite a bit. I spent about a month on this book and looked up stuff I need more information on in TechNet. I already bought the Syngress book for the network design test, and expect to pass that one too!
Rating: 3
Summary: Overall good study guide
Comment: I bought this book a couple of months ago and until recently the book was dust collector on my bookshelf. My decision to buy this book was based on relative good reviews that the book received compared to other study guides for exam 70-240. Now, I'm glad that I picked up this particular study guide. What I needed before I was ready for this book was some kind of overview of all the goodies in Windows 2000, because most of my job related experience was so far limited to W2K member servers in NT 4 domain - no Active Directory, GPO... I recently took five days course, "1560 Updating Support skills from MS Windows NT 4.0 to MS Windows 2000" which helped me to accelerate the whole process of preparation for this exam. Now I can more easily follow the topics in this study guide from Syngress. It covers exam objectives pretty well, I found the writing style somehow 'technical dry' but otherwise clear with no filler paragraphs. Some topics are covered too light however (GPO for example), so you'll probably need some additional source of information (I'm using Books online from Resource Kit, Windows 2000 Active directory from O'Reilly and Inside Windows 2000 Server from New Riders). CD-ROM is surprisingly useful, the only thing I don't like are those barely readable CertCam videos and bonus printable questions with answers immediately following the questions - it would be much better if answers were on a separate page. The organization of the topics is in my opinion the major shortcoming of the book, for example it would be logical to cover DNS before Active Directory and to better resemble real exam structure of four different sections. It's also a shame that after a year publisher didn't care to prepare errata for this book to correct some errors and to further clarify some statements that contradict on the first glance but are correct with proper interpretation, for example; page 41 : Site link bridges have no link cost, because their link cost is a dynamic cost dependent on the links included in the site link bridge. page 145: Like site links, site link bridges have cost and replication schedule attributes. Overall this is a good study guide for exam 70-240 with emphasis on word "guide" - it's not possible to cover all the details in one "tiny" book. You'll need some additional resources and readings. Good luck!
Rating: 2
Summary: Don't count on this book to pass
Comment: The book is less than average, if you count on passing with this big volume...you'd rather think 1000 times before doing so. Their is a lot of missing information especially with the infrastructure and active directory stuff...the easy part is NOT missig. Get a set like sybex.
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Title: Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, Fourth Edition (Hacking Exposed) by Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray, George Kurtz ISBN: 0072227427 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 25 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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