MCSE Windows 2000 Core Four Exam Cram Pack (Exam: 70-210, 70-215, 70-216, 70-217)

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ISBN 10: 1576107248 / ISBN 13: 9781576107249

Published by Coriolis Group, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: MCSE Windows 2000 Core Four Exam Cram Pack (Exam: 70-210, 70-215, 70-216, 70-217)
• Publisher: Coriolis Group
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1576107248
• ISBN 13: 9781576107249
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Contains the MCSE Windows 2000 Directory Services Exam Cram, MCSE Windows 2000 Network Exam Cram, MCSE Windows 2000 Professional Exam Cram, and MCSE Windows 2000 Server Exam Cram guides. Covers exams 70-217, 70-216, 70-210, and 70-215 Features updated content 100% focused on the New Windows 2000 Core Four Exams. Includes three CDs containing 400 practice questions and selected Audio Review from the MCSE Core 4 Exam Cram Audio Review tape series. Each book includes two updated practice exams with questions designed to assess the reader's readiness to sit for the exam and answers and explanations that reinforce the reasoning behind the correct answers.

Review

Anyone wishing to become a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer has to pass four mandatory exams and two electives. Windows 2000 Core Four provides the certification candidate with review material that addresses the Windows 2000 operating system and its behaviour on networks, which is what the four required exams of the MCSE battery are all about.

This boxed set comprises four books, each available separately: Windows 2000 Directory Services for exam 70-217, Windows 2000 Network for exam 70-216, Windows 2000 Server, for exam 70-215 and Windows 2000 Professional for exam 70-210. Plus, the set includes a test simulator on CD-ROM.

The Exam Cram format is oriented towards the review of facts and the filling in of details, rather than the communication of new concepts from author to reader. If you work with a Windows 2000 network regularly, or if you have a lab system set up for experimentation, you'll get more out of these books than if you're trying to learn the facts from them ex nihilo. A typical section begins by defining a feature or technology with a few paragraphs, then listing relevant procedures. Where they're needed, the authors list variations upon procedures as bullet points. Chapters conclude with questions in styles that are typical of the exams. Though the answers to the questions are generally explained well, the answers and questions appear together, making honest self-quizzing difficult.

However, other than the convenience of one-stop shopping and the fact that you get the CD-ROM with the set, there's no real reason to buy this set rather than individual books that address the aspects of the test battery in which you're weakest. --David Wall

Topics covered: the subjects Microsoft says you need to understand in order to pass the required examinations en route to your Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) certification. The four required exams--Server (70-210), Professional (70-215), Network Infrastructure (70-216) and Directory Services (70-217)--have to do with building and administering data networks with Windows 2000 products.