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 | | MCSE Networking Essentials Study Guide (Exam 70-58) by Syngress Media Inc., Global Knowledge Network ISBN-10: 9780078824937 ISBN-10: 0-07-882493-1 ISBN-13: 9780078824937 ISBN-13: 978-0-07-882493-7 Hardcover 1998-04-06 McGraw-Hill Companies Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Professional Certification is today's hottest bookselling market because of the high demand for proven talent in managing mission critical networks. Acting as a universally recognized passport, certification protects employers from letting amateurs loose on their valuable systems and offers systems technicians and administrators an almost instant $10-15,000 salary hike upon accredidation. No wonder that over 100,000 technical managers will seek certification this year--paying up to $7,000 for professional training and exam preparation. | ||
Amazon.com Despite its reputation as the easiest of the MCSE mandatory exams, the Networking Essentials test is not to be sneezed at. Loaded with questions about network topologies, protocols, and security, the test has its share of pitfalls. This book can help you prepare, though you'll find the same information in other books of the same series. The authors have organized their book around Microsoft's outline of exam objectives. Early chapters explain what computer networks are and why they're useful to organizations; intermediate chapters explain the OSI network model, topologies, protocols, and network operating systems. The book then progresses into cabling, network interface cards, hubs and repeaters, wide area networks, security, and network management. The coverage provided here is complete and touches on everything in the Microsoft statement of what's on the test. An excellent companion CD-ROM includes a searchable version of the book's text as well as some great test-simulator software. | ||
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I Hope There Is Better! This is the second Osbourne I have used. I passed with an 866, but I do not attribute much to this book. The typos were annoying, and some material was grossly outdated (copyrighted in 1998!). Thank goodness for Exam Cram 3rd Edition. I think I will take everyone's advice and try Que next. | ||
Good book, for test and more. I was able to pass the test fairly easily with this book and some study guides off the internet. Beyond that, the book teaches the subject well. Some of these books seem to only teach you how to pass the test. This one actually teaches the material. It was/is used as a textbook at my college, though, personally, I think it is too centered on MS tech to be the best choice for that purpose. | ||
There are better books out there There are better books out there but this is OK, it seemed to be beaten up here but I did not think is was *that* bad. I am putting the book up on EBAY though to buy more books. So this isn't a save-it-for-the-grandchildren book, I did pass the test how much this book helped is hard to tell. | ||
Typos Galore A true Syngress book.... FULL of typos and not worth half the money it costs.....my advice...AVOID IT LIKE THE PLAGUE, buy a QUE instead! | ||
Not! I already had a networking essentials book (QUE), but bought this one because it touts to have >1,000 sample exam questions in its CD-ROM. This is blatantly misleading. There are only 366 questions pertaining to exam 70-58. The CD-ROM contains sample exams from all four core MCSE exams, and if you add them all up, they may total >1000. The book is disorganized. Topics are all over the place, with no logical sequence. Reading the book, I get the impression that the chapters were written by different people. Some topics are detailed, while others are only covered on the surface. There is a diagram of UTP cable that looks like it was penciled by a 4-year-old. This half-baked book isn't worthy of publication. My impression is that it was put together in haste. | ||