MCSE: NT Server 4 in the Enterprise Study Guide (MCSE S.)
Language: English
Published by John Wiley & Sons 09/12/1999, 1999
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- Title
- MCSE: NT Server 4 in the Enterprise Study Guide (MCSE S.)
- Author
- L Donald
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons 09/12/1999
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0782126979
- ISBN 13
- 9780782126976
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
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Review
The Sybex Study Guides are famed for being accessible to both the neophyte and the advanced field techie, and this book is no exception. Lisa Donald and James Chellis bring you through the basic concepts of NT Server, from setting up printer pools to NetWare interoperability to monitoring and optimising NT networking performance. The writing is very lucid but extremely dense, varying mildly in quality; the section on NetWare interoperability stands among the best explanations around (even if it unnecessarily shunts File And Print Services For Netware into a footnote), while the sections on DHCP servers and RAS will probably require more than a few rereadings before you get them down. Several hands-on exercises help flesh out your comprehension, but many of the exercises require more than one computer...which is a reasonable assumption, given that this is an exam that is supposed to test your knowledge of how thousands of networked computers interact.
(Incidentally, sharp-eyed surfers may note that the reader reviews of previous editions have complained of numerous technical errors; the four pages of errata that marred the second edition's value have been corrected here. No worries, mate.)
Unfortunately, the book was written to straddle both worlds and services neither fully; it seems to want to be a complete reference for someone who is completely unfamiliar with NT Server, while still trying to provide content for the advanced Enterprise topics. As such, it falls in between the cracks, providing a lot of redundant data on topics like printing, user management, and permissions--things that have already been covered quite thoroughly in their NT Server and Workstations books. The space given to those chapters eats up valuable pages, and doesn't allow the guide to have nearly as much detail on advanced topics (like Enterprise-style troubleshooting, Network Monitor and DHCP) as it should. Unfortunately, this takes away from the "one-stop shop" nature that is the hallmark of the other core MCSE books from Sybex. The nature of this makes it a fine introduction to Enterprise topics, but a more advanced and thorough book will most likely be needed if you want to guarantee a passing grade.
The end-of-chapter questions are flawed simply because they are, well, simple. The Enterprise exam is famed for having large, complex scenario questions designed to confuse the rookies, and the Sybex questions tend to lean more towards the baldly factual--i.e., "What RAS callback option provides the greatest level of security?" There is a chapter devoted to troubleshooting, but even there the questions are elementary. If you know your troubleshooting skills are weak--or, worse yet, have never troubleshot--a supplementary book to bolster this area would probably be in order. (Incidentally, the secondary nature of this guide is not a reflection on poor writing--few study guides cover all areas equally, and reading more than one book to prepare for an exam is generally a good idea.)
Overall, this is a wonderful effort the aim of which is just a little off. If you are looking to start off somewhere, this is a good choice that will probably get you to 80 per cent of where you need to be--and, in fact, many people have passed the exam using this book alone. But when you are the one paying $100 a pop... --William Steinmetz, amazon.com
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