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Summary: Awesome!
Review: This book is a tremendous aid in preparing for the 70-216 Network Infrastructure MCSE exam. Each chapter provides you with the conceptual information you need to understand the subject. This is by far the best and most complete 70-216 book I have found.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This book not only prepares you to take the 70-216, which I passed the first time with an 820, but also gives sound advice and enough background information to more than prepare you. Kudos to Syngress Media and it authors/editors they have done a fine job with this title.
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Summary: The ONLY BOOK you need to pass this test!
Review: This entire series of books is great. I passed this test on the first try using just this book, and some hands on practice on a test network. This book is easy reading, but still teaches you everything you need to know for the exam and plenty to get you going in the real world.
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Summary: The best of the series but not perfect
Review: 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.
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Summary: Good core study guide!
Review: 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.
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Summary: An thorough overview of Network
Review: 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.
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Summary: No really what I expected!
Review: 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.
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