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Summary: The Best 70-216 - focused Book
Review: 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.
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Summary: Be careful of other reviews...
Review: Depending on who you ask, this book will help you pass the 70-216 exam. The author is very good at explaining most of the topics. The print is nice and big so you won't go blind reading it. For those who wish to pass the exam, this book will help. However, the book does little more than give someone a very basic understanding of the major topics for the exam. Perhaps the biggest fault with this book is that it is very disorganized. Many topics which are related are spread out over several chapters which makes learning the material very confusing. Some of the major topics like RRAS (Routing and Remote Access Server) are very poorly written as well. Do you hate it when you read a book and the author makes reference to a later chapter without fully explaining the point that he/she is trying to teach? There are many such instances of this throughout the entire book. The diagrams do very little to help show the reader what the author is trying to teach. Unfortunately, the CD is just as bad. The exam questions are good practice though and I like the fact that they are not similar to the real exam. However, many people will not like this fact since the exam is the main reason they would consider purchasing the book. If you're serious about buying a book that will help you learn and pass the 70-216 exam than look elsewhere. If you are a professional with experience who wishes to prepare for the exam, you will find this book lacks detail. If you don't care about long term learning and just wish to pass the exam this book may help you.
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Summary: Be careful of other reviews...
Review: Depending on who you ask, this book will help you pass the 70-216 exam. The author is very good at explaining most of the topics. The print is nice and big so you won't go blind reading it. For those who wish to pass the exam, this book will help. However, the book does little more than give someone a very basic understanding of the major topics for the exam. Perhaps the biggest fault with this book is that it is very disorganized. Many topics which are related are spread out over several chapters which makes learning the material very confusing. Some of the major topics like RRAS (Routing and Remote Access Server) are very poorly written as well. Do you hate it when you read a book and the author makes reference to a later chapter without fully explaining the point that he/she is trying to teach? There are many such instances of this throughout the entire book. The diagrams do very little to help show the reader what the author is trying to teach. Unfortunately, the CD is just as bad. The exam questions are good practice though and I like the fact that they are not similar to the real exam. However, many people will not like this fact since the exam is the main reason they would consider purchasing the book. If you're serious about buying a book that will help you learn and pass the 70-216 exam than look elsewhere. If you are a professional with experience who wishes to prepare for the exam, you will find this book lacks detail. If you don't care about long term learning and just wish to pass the exam this book may help you.
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Summary: The worst
Review: Do not get this book unless you are new to computers and new to networking, even then it's bad. If you have been in the buisness for a few years this book will either make you laugh or cry it is so bad. So many mistakes, so much redundancy, 100 pages of information in 800 pages of [nonsense].
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Summary: This is the one!
Review: 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.
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Summary: Good beginning
Review: 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
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: 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.
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Summary: Not Enough
Review: I have passed several of the Exams using the books in the series and "TestOut" software. But It wasnt enough to pass this exam on the first try. I just purchased Microsofts Training kit for the exam and I found better explanations of the exam questions than in this book.
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Summary: Not Enough
Review: I have passed several of the Exams using the books in the series and "TestOut" software. But It wasnt enough to pass this exam on the first try. I just purchased Microsofts Training kit for the exam and I found better explanations of the exam questions than in this book.
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Summary: The best book for this topic
Review: I read 3 different books for this topic and this is by far the absolute best book for this topic. It is clear concise writing with practical examples which make the new topics easy to understand.
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