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Summary: A good tutorial but not the test prep tool
Review: Actually I like this book. It has lots of info, a good style with some sense of humor, pretty wide and deep coverage, very logical. You can definitly learn about Win 2000 server from this book. The only problem it doesn't help much in your exam preparation. The test questions are very specific and it helps more to buy some question samples then to read books like this, even if it is a good book.
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Summary: Too much useless information
Review: I bought this book based on the fact that it has a lot of exam-type questions. Unfortunately, the answers are in a section entitled '...questiosn'. A basic diagram in the first chapter or two was clearly incorrect. The authors recommend setting up AD on organizational boundaries - a sure trip to major hassles, as companies reorganize all the time.I'm a beginner in Windows, after a long career deep into the bits and bytes of MVS. I do not know if this is a bad book, but I do know that the errors I've found make me wary of everything in it.
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Summary: Leaves out major material - like the Active Directory
Review: The book started out very good. But then as I moved into Chapter 2 and started trying the hands-on exercises, I found they were out of date. The URL for the Readiness Analyzer had a date of October 2000 and said the R.A. is no longer available. On page 135, it said the R.A. was also available on the Server CD, but I searched it and could not find it. Then in Chapter 3, I successfully updated NT4 Server to W2KServer, but there was no mention of Active Directoy - which was required for hands on in Chapter 4. I sent an email to the email address listed in the book. I got bakc a reply I would have expected from another publisher. They simply suggested I check their errata website. I did and it had ZERO updates and ZERO corrections. So I feel if you pay $50 for this book, if you pay $15 for this book, you are completely wasting your money!
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Summary: Leaves out major material - like the Active Directory
Review: The book started out very good. But then as I moved into Chapter 2 and started trying the hands-on exercises, I found they were out of date. The URL for the Readiness Analyzer had a date of October 2000 and said the R.A. is no longer available. On page 135, it said the R.A. was also available on the Server CD, but I searched it and could not find it. Then in Chapter 3, I successfully updated NT4 Server to W2KServer, but there was no mention of Active Directoy - which was required for hands on in Chapter 4. I sent an email to the email address listed in the book. I got bakc a reply I would have expected from another publisher. They simply suggested I check their errata website. I did and it had ZERO updates and ZERO corrections. So I feel if you pay $50 for this book, if you pay $15 for this book, you are completely wasting your money!
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Summary: Too much useless information
Review: This book would be great if the title of the exam was "every thing you could possibly know about Windows 2000 Server Architecture". The book bogs you down with so much useless information about the design of 2000 Server. Instead of focusing on what you need to pass the test this book drones on endlessly about the most trivial apseects of the operating system.
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