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Summary: Valuable Resource for the Netadmin test
Review: I just got done aceing the MCSE exam 70-216. This was a nasty exam! This book helped me understand how things I already knew about worked in actual practice. I thought I understood WINS, DNS, DHCP and RAS, but this book brings the information together in a way that helps you use it in answering the exam questions. With this book and the resource kit, I beat this test. On to the next one!
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Summary: Amazing!
Review: I took the Microsoft exam 70-216 for network infrastructure today and all I can say is AMAZING! How did the writers know what was on the exam? There is so much obscure stuff on the exam that no other book I read covered the questons on the exam. But this one did. So much of the test was troubleshooting the network, so I guess a TCP/IP troubleshooting book would be the right one. But the similarity of this book to the test is amazing.This book was good to read too and I am using it at my job and fixing some of the problems we've had with WINS and VPN based on what I learned. Great book and best study guide for the test.
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Summary: TCP/IP is revealed to the clueless
Review: OK, I admit it. I learned my TCP/IP for Windows NT exams from reading Exam Cram. Needless to say, I passed the Windows NT TCP/IP test, but couldn't tell a subnet from a supernet. Now I have a job in the industry and I needed to actually learn TCP/IP, especially since we are moving up to Windows 2000 in our shop. This book is unreal in how good things are explained. Great detail in describing RRAS, WINS, DNS, and the TCP stack. Using the information in the book I am now up to speed on TCP/IP. Enough to pass the 70-216 test! Not bad for a NT MCSE! For Real, this book helped a lot. I owe the author's a beer on this one.
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Summary: I passed 70-216!
Review: The Network Infrastucture exam went live this week and I took it the first day. I read the MS Press book for the 70-216 exam, and if I only read that, I would have failed it for sure. This book put me over the top! I wonder if the authors wrote the exam questions? Thanks for putting together a great book and helping me pass my first windows 2000 test!
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Summary: Excellent Coverage of Win2k Net Services
Review: This book is fresh air to someone like myself who has read at least a dozen Windows 2000 books. I get the impression that a lot of the Windows 2000 books were written by people who write books and don't work with the technology. This book doesn't fall into that class. It was great to read this book, because it renewed my faith that a tech book could be written in a way that doesn't put me to sleep. They cover Windows 2000 TCP/IP from top to bottom. WINS, DNS, DHCP, RRAS, IIS, routing and network devices. Its all there, and its filled with little known factoids that makes me want to keep reading and have another "aha!" experience. This book also was the major reason I passed the Microsoft 216 exam so easily. Although I didn't buy it to pass the exam, they seem to cover all the material that the exam covered. A nice bonus. I wish they made the book longer, because I'm sure they could have said a lot more that I would like to read about. This book isn't for beginners, but neither is Windows 2000. I think once the reader is ready to manage Windows 2000, they'll be ready to get the most out of this exceptional book.
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Summary: Excellent Coverage of Win2k Net Services
Review: This book is fresh air to someone like myself who has read at least a dozen Windows 2000 books. I get the impression that a lot of the Windows 2000 books were written by people who write books and don't work with the technology. This book doesn't fall into that class. It was great to read this book, because it renewed my faith that a tech book could be written in a way that doesn't put me to sleep. They cover Windows 2000 TCP/IP from top to bottom. WINS, DNS, DHCP, RRAS, IIS, routing and network devices. Its all there, and its filled with little known factoids that makes me want to keep reading and have another "aha!" experience. This book also was the major reason I passed the Microsoft 216 exam so easily. Although I didn't buy it to pass the exam, they seem to cover all the material that the exam covered. A nice bonus. I wish they made the book longer, because I'm sure they could have said a lot more that I would like to read about. This book isn't for beginners, but neither is Windows 2000. I think once the reader is ready to manage Windows 2000, they'll be ready to get the most out of this exceptional book.
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Summary: Good to learn how to design Windows 2000 network solutions
Review: This book is good. I am studying for the 70-216 and 70-221 Microsoft Exam to update my MCSE to Windows 2000 MCSE. There is no Microsoft Book now for these tests so I got this one. Not only did I really learn TCP/IP for the first time (I thought I understood TCP/IP and how it worked before), but I know now how so different Windows 2000 TCP/IP is from Windows NT TCP/IP. They are not the same! Only book I ever read that showed me how to design WINS and DNS solutions in real world. MSPRESS books did not show me that for Windows NT! This is a good book and I liked it a lot.
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Summary: Good book
Review: This book is heads and tails above any other TCP/IP book I've read or own. Finally understand how DNS works, the RAS section helped me put together my Win2k VPN. Get this is you wnat to understand some of the weird stuff in Win2k TCP/IP.
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Summary: Good Intermediate Level Book for Win2k Admins
Review: This is a great book for understanding the things they gloss over in the MS Press book for the Network Infrastucture exam. I was looking for more material, since I've read on the cramsession site that the MS Press book was too weak to pass the exam. That book is great for getting a good and deep understanding of the subjects. Just what I needed to pass the MS test!
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Summary: Good Win2k Networking Book
Review: This is a nice book. Clear and understandable explanations of complex topics, and helpful diagrams of things they usually just talk about in my other TCP/IP books. I learned a lot from this book and its a good reference that I keep in the office.
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