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Summary: Good for people who are new to microsoft Clustering
Review: It's a good book, but don't get me wrong, you need a lot of real word of experience in deploying and maintaining MS clusters. Know the hardware components, specially Fibre Channel and Scsi,also installing and configuring physical componentsand groups. So I suggest first to be familiar with this concepts, as well as the cluster.exe parameters commands and the GUI of Cluster administrator.
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Summary: Not the best.
Review: The Exam Cram series is always a gamble. Most of them are winners; this one is a sure loser.The Exam Cram strength has always been to cover the material MS requires on test. The first few chapters provide a good introduction to clustering and then the book covers the appropriate topics. Just not in the proper depth or clarity needed to pass the test. Add to this shortcoming the constant misspellings and worthless pratices tests and you lose. Maybe this book will work if you have experience with MS Clustering and you just need to fill one or two gaps.
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Summary: Light.
Review: This Exam Cram does not delve deep enough into the subject matter to get you through the Windows 2000 Clustering Exam (70-223). Make no mistake, the exam this book attempts to prepare the reader for is *hard* -- you need to score a 777 to pass it, you don't get nearly as much time as you typically do on an MS exam, and the questions are primarily related to troubleshooting scenarios that one would have had to encounter in practice to understand. Some hands-on experience in a support environment and/or thorough review of all Microsoft Knowledge Base articles on clustering may be more helpful than buzzing through this study guide which I found to be loaded with honest errors (they had some really obvious ones in the practice exams) and utter bogusness (most of the optimization techniques described in Chapter 11 is inapplicable in both the real world and on the test). The only reason I am rating this book 2 stars instead of 1 is that I think it could be combined with some in-depth material from Microsoft support site for a successful study strategy. I know what some of you are thinking -- "Exam Cram is usually right on, anyone who can't pass the test with an Exam Cram doesn't have a lot of experience or didn't really read the book". To that, I've passed plenty of Microsoft exams the first time with Exam Crams only (and some real-world experience); this is the first one I've ever failed, and I've been highly-engaged with clustering on W2K with Advanced Server for over a year! Please be advised that this book will not be enough to pass 70-223.
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Summary: Surprise
Review: What do you get when you rush a book to press?? A poorly written book for a very difficult test. I took the test and used this book for my first test on the MS 70-223 and I got burned. I then took the test after purchasing the Microsoft Training Kit and had no problems. I had a discussion with the author of the book by e-mail about my first failure. I then asked him two of the questions on the test that I did not understand. I got an answer back that pretty much said that he did not know the answer. Exam Crams are usually great. Do your self a favor and save the money for the Microsoft Training Kit. You will be better prepared for the test if you do.
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