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Summary: Misses the Mark
Review: Just yesterday, I passed this test studying from this book alone for about a month. But I didn't pass for the reasons I thought. Having a business background and having done case studies to death in graduate school, I believed (based on this text) that I would find myself on familiar ground with this exam. Not so. Although the test is ALL case studies, it requires an in-depth technical comprehension of how Microsoft products work together that this book spends very little time conveying.That being said, however, I should also mention that although vague on interoperability issues, technical aspects that are covered here are well presented - for the most part; there are too many typos and inconsistency to make it really reliable. I cannot recommend any other books as I haven't seen any, but I know there have to be better texts out there on this subject. But if you DO buy this book: a) forget about chapters 1, 2, and 6; nothing on the test relates to anything there and b) don't bother with the practice tests; these too are completely irrelevant to the actual experience.
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Summary: Novice Book
Review: Not the worst New Riders book I've read, but definitely not the best. The information is there. Ok, not in the best format, but like all exams you should be using 2 or 3 sources of info and obviously get some experiance on the subject. I would have marked it a bit higher if New Riders would publish errata for their books. Since there are always errors that slip through the proofing proccess.
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Summary: O.K., If you know the core material
Review: The book is not great, but it's the only one I used to study for the exam and I passed. I thought it did an adequate job with the project assessment aspects of this exam - identifying and prioritizing problems and goals. It does a poor job of covering CIDR IP addressing, however. For this test though, you must have mastered the material in 216 and 217. My field experience helped me quite a bit, but was not a must for this test. I don't work with international WANs for example, but there are international scenarios in the exam. And there's no substitute for exam prep like one of the many test engines available.
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Summary: O.K., If you know the core material
Review: The book is not great, but it's the only one I used to study for the exam and I passed. I thought it did an adequate job with the project assessment aspects of this exam - identifying and prioritizing problems and goals. It does a poor job of covering CIDR IP addressing, however. For this test though, you must have mastered the material in 216 and 217. My field experience helped me quite a bit, but was not a must for this test. I don't work with international WANs for example, but there are international scenarios in the exam. And there's no substitute for exam prep like one of the many test engines available.
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Summary: Novice Book
Review: This book is for the very begineer. Do not expect to pass the exam with this book alone. I did not find one item on the test that this book actually taught me. Waste of my slim and very valuable reading time.
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