| | |  | Osborne-McGraw-Hill | Home » » » » MCSE/MCSA Implementing a Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure Study Guide (Exam 70-291) | | | | | | | Description: | | The only classroom-based integrated study system for professional certification has been fully redesigned throughout--find out not only what to study, but how to study. You’ll get 100% complete coverage of all objectives for exam 70-291, hundreds of practice exam questions, and hands-on exercises. The CD-ROM features full practice exam software with interactive tutorials and lab simulations, plus an adaptive test engine. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Rory McCaw | | Paperback:
| 749 pages | | Publisher:
| McGraw-Hill Osborne Media | | Publication Date:
| November 06, 2003 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0072225661 | | Package Length:
| 9.07 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.39 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.68 inches | | Package Weight:
| 2.93 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 3 reviews |
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3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Good Study CompanionMay 29, 2005
By S. Wells
A great, well formatted book. A lot of exercises and well thought out labs. Quite a lot of spelling and grammatical errors but that doesn't distract from the content. A word of warning, don't use this book as your sole study guide as there are areas that are out of date. Especially in the areas of SUS and some of the improved areas surrounding Service Pack 1.
A good book overall. Well worth the money!
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Step-by-Step Exercises InvaluableDec 14, 2005
By Joaquin Menchaca
I am a system administrator, and I have recently taken the 70-291 exam. Now these days there's a lot of practical simulation oriented questions, and I found that this book's step-by-step exercises for various technologies to be immensely useful. And predominantly for this reason, I am rather well disposed towards this book.
There was a lot of emphasis on TCP/IP math, but in actual practice, at least for my exam, I never had any specific math question. There was only one DHCP question that did require one to know how many hosts a given the bit-mask would allow for, and also the corresponding valid IP ranges. So I am grateful that I pushed myself to get into the mindset transforming bit-masks into quantity of sub-nets & hosts and also valid IP ranges, or else I might have missed that question (or maybe I did :)...
Overall, I think reading the text material and doing the exercises with and actual Windows 2003 Server and Windows clients, will prepare you for the exam.
In combining through the first two chapters, I did found some potential mistakes:
(1) In instructing on sub-netting on page 24, they say to "subtract 2 subnets", essentially the first and last subnets. But this conflicts with the self test answer #3 (page 37), which doesn't subtract 2 subnets. From this, I couldn't understand whether the instruction or the self-test was correct, which is disturbing (especially before the exam)
(2) The self test answer to #14 (page 100) states that "you must know the name and MAC address of the DHCP client." However, in real world application, I found this not to be the case. You can use whatever for "Reservation Name", and in fact DHCP service has no support for using the client name (Linux/Unix DHCP services can utilize that with ISC DHCP server). This makes me wonder about the author's in-depth knowledge at least in this area.
I didn't get enough to comb through this tomb completely, but I will delve deeper. Despite this, this is a worthwhile starting point.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Great Study Material for the Exam!Mar 27, 2004
By John W. Crockett
This book has great coverage of the key points of the exam. The book is laid out in an easy-to-read fashion that calls attention to key points on the exam. The accompanying CD is also a bonus, providing simulation labs, an electronic version of the book, and training videos. Hundreds of images and screen shots make for easy reading. The practice exam has questions that are similar to the questions you will find on the actual exam. I'd call this a well-rounded study guide for the exam. If you're planning to take the exam, you should have a copy of this book. It's much more complete than the Microsoft Press book and isn't chock full of mistakes (like the Microsoft Press book is).
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