Subj : Windows 2000 MCSE Upgrade Exam
To   : Steve Quarrella
From : Lawrence Garvin
Date : Sun Mar 25 2001 10:56 am

Steve Quarrella said in a message to All:

 SQ>  * Crossposted to WINDOWS-NT : Windows NT Discussion and s

 SQ> Anybody have any suggestions for a -good- study guide for this
 SQ> exam, or other recommended reading references?

A bit late.. Steve.. but I see no other replies yet.. so here's my .02 worth.

I have just completed reading the Microsoft 'official' study guide: "MCSE 
Training Kit: Upgrading to Microsoft Windows 2000". I also worked through all 
of the exercises mentally (I'm about to do the actual install & upgrade 
exercises for real this week.). I only found two exercises that were written 
such that I could not fully understand what was happening and being viewed on 
the screen. These were the ones on Group Policies (1) and Remote Access 
Policies (2).

I've used MCSE training guides for NT4 from Network Press (Sybex), McGraw-Hill, 
and New Riders Publishing. Prior to looking at the Microsoft MCSE 2000 book, my 
personal favorites were the McGraw-Hill books.

However, after having used the Microsoft book.. I'm of the opinion that the 
design, layout, and writing of the Microsoft book is every bit as good as the 
McGraw-Hill books (and maybe even better).

The book (as does most of those I've seen) comes with a CDROM with the complete 
text of the book in HTML format.

One item of particular note. Each and every one of the NT4 books I read 
inevitably contained a chapter purporting to discuss the theories, operation, 
and administration of TCP/IP. Every one of them contained grevious errors in 
information pertaining to those theories. I was amazed when reading the TCP/IP 
chapter in the Microsoft MCSE 2000 book that there was not a single error 
pertaining to TCP/IP theories. I suspect some of this may be due to the 
necessity of Windows 2000 to have access to the latest RFC facilities of DDNS 
and DHCP and may have actually forced the authors to do sufficient contemporary 
research on the topic to actually know something about the subject, as opposed 
to previous authors in previous publisher's chapters.


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