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MCSE/MCSA Implementing Windows Server 2003 Network Study Guide (exam 70-291) (Certification Press) [Paperback]

Rory McCaw (Author)

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Paperback: 720 pages
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill; Pap/Com edition (1 Nov 2003)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0072225661
ISBN-13: 978-0072225662
Product Dimensions: 23 x 18.8 x 4.3 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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This work provides complete coverage of all official exam objectives for the 70-278 exam. It includes a "How to take the exam" section and special pedagogical elements like Exam Watch and On the Job notes, and step-by-step exercises with annotated solutions.

About the Author

Rory McCaw (Toronto, Ontario) is an independent certified technical trainer and an accomplished, published author of numerous technical books with more than 5 years of experience in information technology. Rory's interest in writing led him to courseware development where he has designed courses focused on different Microsoft technologies. Rory holds numerous designations, including the MCSE, MCT, and CTT. An accomplished speaker, Rory developed and delivered presentations for Microsoft at Comdex and designs custom courses to meet the needs of his growing list of corporate clients. For the last three years, Rory has been providing technical instruction to IT professionals, and consulting for large organizations on enterprise implementations of IIS and active directory. Prior to training, Rory filled the role of Systems Administrator for an Internet start-up after graduating from University with a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration and a major in Management Information Systems. Recent Titles by McCaw: MCSE Training Guide (70-210): Installing, Configuring, and Administering Windows 2000 Professional (et al, New Riders), MCSE Training Guide (70-215): Installing, Configuring, and Administering Windows 2000 Server (et al, New Riders), MCSE Migrating from Windows NT to Windows 2000 for Dummies (w/Rich Tenant, HMI), and Mike Meyer's MCSE Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure Certification Passport (McGraw-Hill).

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In this chapter, you will begin your journey to MCSA success with a look at how to configure TCP/IP on a computer running Windows Server 2003. Read the first page

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

Overall good revision guide 7 Sep 2007

By D. Rugen

Format:Paperback

I failed my first attempt and passed with a high score second time around. It's a hard exam and it would probably be worth getting all the help you can for it. This book is well written, although the DNS section could have been better, also the SUS stuff is completely out of date (same goes for most other books though). It's definately a good starting point, but practice and extra revision makes perfect.
I've bought a few books in this series and overall would recommend them.

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Good Study Companion 29 May 2005

By S. Wells - Published on Amazon.com

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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 people found the following review helpful

Step-by-Step Exercises Invaluable 14 Dec 2005

By Joaquin Menchaca - Published on Amazon.com

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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 people found the following review helpful

Great Study Material for the Exam! 27 Mar 2004

By John W. Crockett - Published on Amazon.com

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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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