MCSE Windows 2000: Foundations

Exams 70-210, 70-215, 70-216, 70-217 and 70-240 are the next generation of MCSE 2000 core exams and wouldn't it be nice to have one book to study all the objectives from instead of 5 or 6? Coriolis, a leader in exam preparation test material has once again taken the lead with the Windows 2000 Foundation Exam Prep. The book covers the 5 exam and their objectives in a different fashion that other I have seen. This book put them objective together rather than separate sections, thus removing the redundancy factor for repeating information several times. Starting off with the 200 architecture to installation, device drivers, management, performance, reliability, configuring and troubleshooting, you have only finished the first 7 chapters. You have tables, review questions, hands-on exercises to learn from. Moving on you get 2000 networking, security, active directory, DNS, DHCP, remote access, WINS and IP routing and now you are at chapter 16. Again you have figures, tables, diagrams, exercises and review questions to work with. In the final sections you learn about NAT, certificate servers, configuration management, tuning, active directory security and that brings you to chapter 21. Unlike most Exam Prep books this one does not have a cd with practice questions, which might be a small drawback. Overall the value is well worth the price.

I picked up this book to help me get started on my quest to upgrade my MCSE. I like the way that the authors explain the concepts behind the new features incorporated in Windows 2000. I thought that the chapters on RAS and Active Directory were especially good.The only negative was that RIS was not covered as thoroughly as I would have liked, but overall the book is must buy for anyone that is trying to get up to speed on W2K.

I bought this book to help me get through the core exams for Windows 2000, and so far I have passed both W2K Server and Directory Services Imp with no problems. However I feel I will find this book very useful as a reference in the future.The writers have managed to explain Windows 2000 in a way that makes it far more understandable than the Microsoft Press books that I had previously tried to use.Especially noteworthy were the chapters on AD, DNS DHCP and Security.