Amazon.com Review
The MCSE Windows 2000 Accelerated Study Guide is a solid, well-written, and laudable guide for the seasoned professional, but it’s tough to recommend it for the Win2K novice thanks to two factors: organization and Active Directory.
Let’s get the good out of the way first. As with most of the books in this series, the communication of both new concepts and dense technical specs continues to be the best in the biz–and you won’t waste your money here. The chapters on DNS take an alphabet soup full of easily confusable details on zone transfers, fast transfers, forwarding servers, caching-only servers, recursive queries, and in-addr.arpa records and break them all down into easily understandable chunks. Review this material closely, and you won’t get caught by two similar-sounding answers on the test. Likewise, the chapters on printing are among the most comprehensive yet seen in Windows 2000 Accelerated test books to date, and the four chapters on attended and unattended installations should make the difference between Sysprep, Riprep, and RIS crystal clear. Which is not to say that every topic gets the same thorough presentation–the sections on Dfs and encryption are a little light compared to the rest of the book’s rich content–but the major areas that the test focuses on are covered quite well.
Unfortunately, the organization of this book follows the series template, which means that each chapter covers a set of Microsoft test objectives–in strict order. And since Microsoft’s test objectives are not particularly well organized, the book leaps about from topic to topic like a flamenco dancer, covering the need for DNS servers in Active Directory in chapter 3, creating primary and secondary DNS zones for AD replication in chapter 4, the need for a link between DHCP and DNS in chapter 10, and then finally gets around to discussing what WINS and DNS are and how they work in chapter 26, long after you’ve been reading about them for hours. And if you want a TCP/IP brushup to help you with all of these TCP/IP-dependent topics, good luck: the book doesn’t even mention what TCP/IP is until chapter 22, discusses routing in chapter 28, and winds up discussing IPsec in chapter 30.
Now, admittedly, most people taking the test will have a passing familiarity with DNS, TCP/IP, and IP routing. (Well, we hope so, anyway.) But this is simply an example of a major problem with the book: because this book follows the Microsoft curriculum, the topics are scattered throughout the book. If you’re fuzzy on something critical, you may not be able to find a single point of reference for it.
This leads us to the other bone of contention: because the book follows the Microsoft itinerary, the nine chapters on Active Directory are extremely confusing–and if you don’t have a rough idea of how AD works and what it’s used for, you may well be eaten alive. The authors struggled valiantly with the setup, but when the first chapter is “Installing Active Directory” and “Planning the Active Directory” doesn’t come up until chapter 3, you’re going to encounter difficulty. And since “Say, What Benefits Does Active Directory Provide, Anyway?” isn’t an official objective, the basics of the basics aren’t covered in a single area. If you’ve worked with AD before, the technical information is solid and digestible, but the emphasis on a conceptual overview is almost nil.
So, if you have some experience in the field and are looking for a good, solid guide to propel yourself into the new millennium with a freshly minted MCSE, this is a good place to be. And if you’re a little less skilled and want an extremely good secondary guide (after buying something to cover the AD gap present here), this is also well worth your moolah. You won’t be disappointed. –William Steinmetz
Product DescriptionProvides detailed coverage of all the technical objectives require to pass the Microsoft approved 2000 exam for current NT 4.0 MCSEs. Network Professionals learn installing, configuring, and troubleshooting techniques. Increased annotated visual screen shots, line art illustrates critical study points, photographs describe complex points. CD-ROM contains tons of video clips for easier learning, self-paced Skill Builder Software with more than 300 knowledge and scenario-based TEST YOURSELF Personal Testing Center questions, simulation exam that completely look and feel like the real exam.
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