This book covers many of the most of the basics you need to know in the MCSE exam (DHCP, DNS, WINS).

However, topics on static routing, OSPF, RIP, multicast routing, certificate of authority are definetely not covered enough. You are not given the picture on how OSPF, RIP, multicast and unicast routing, actually works.

If you think you can pass the exam with this book alone, don't bet on it unless you have plenty of experience. My advise on anyone who wishes to take this exam should also purchase the 3 Win2k resource kits (TCP/IP, Internetwork, Distributed System) for a very complete coverage on all the topics covered in this book. With these 4 books, I passed the exam on first try and completed CCNA with ease.

I believe an excellent job was done of often troubling areas of infrastructure and DNS, and while solid studying is required in addition to simply using this book in order to pass 70-216, this book will get you started

Lots of words, but little useful information. I want a book that gets to the meat, and this is not it. I have been working with Windows for a long time. I think this book was written for a beginner, but I think it would be too confusing. I found the material very wordy and hard to follow. I got this book because of the reviews, I just don't understand how other give it 4 stars.

Depending on who you ask, this book will help you pass the 70-216 exam. The author is very good at explaining most of the topics. The print is nice and big so you won't go blind reading it. For those who wish to pass the exam, this book will help.

However, the book does little more than give someone a very basic understanding of the major topics for the exam. Perhaps the biggest fault with this book is that it is very disorganized. Many topics which are related are spread out over several chapters which makes learning the material very confusing. Some of the major topics like RRAS (Routing and Remote Access Server) are very poorly written as well. Do you hate it when you read a book and the author makes reference to a later chapter without fully explaining the point that he/she is trying to teach? There are many such instances of this throughout the entire book.

The diagrams do very little to help show the reader what the author is trying to teach. Unfortunately, the CD is just as bad. The exam questions are good practice though and I like the fact that they are not similar to the real exam. However, many people will not like this fact since the exam is the main reason they would consider purchasing the book. If you're serious about buying a book that will help you learn and pass the 70-216 exam than look elsewhere. If you are a professional with experience who wishes to prepare for the exam, you will find this book lacks detail. If you don't care about long term learning and just wish to pass the exam this book may help you.

Depending on who you ask, this book will help you pass the 70-216 exam. The author is very good at explaining most of the topics. The print is nice and big so you won't go blind reading it. For those who wish to pass the exam, this book will help.

However, the book does little more than give someone a very basic understanding of the major topics for the exam. Perhaps the biggest fault with this book is that it is very disorganized. Many topics which are related are spread out over several chapters which makes learning the material very confusing. Some of the major topics like RRAS (Routing and Remote Access Server) are very poorly written as well. Do you hate it when you read a book and the author makes reference to a later chapter without fully explaining the point that he/she is trying to teach? There are many such instances of this throughout the entire book.

The diagrams do very little to help show the reader what the author is trying to teach. Unfortunately, the CD is just as bad. The exam questions are good practice though and I like the fact that they are not similar to the real exam. However, many people will not like this fact since the exam is the main reason they would consider purchasing the book. If you're serious about buying a book that will help you learn and pass the 70-216 exam than look elsewhere. If you are a professional with experience who wishes to prepare for the exam, you will find this book lacks detail. If you don't care about long term learning and just wish to pass the exam this book may help you.

Its the best book available now for this test. Easy to read and it covers all the oficial topics. If you're looking a good Study Guide for the 216 test, this is the best choice!

Unfortunatly, CD and Simulation Software that comes whitin is not so good. You can not review your mistakes after taken a test;CD sound's quality or audio is not the best either.

Studying well all this book's topics and also buying and reading Windows 2000 TCP/IP Troubleshooting too, of same authors, you can take the test without any problem or fear.

Its the best book available now for this test. Easy to read and it covers all the oficial topics. If you're looking a good Study Guide for the 216 test, this is the best choice!

Unfortunatly, CD and Simulation Software that comes whitin is not so good. You can not review your mistakes after taken a test;CD sound's quality or audio is not the best either.

Studying well all this book's topics and also buying and reading Windows 2000 TCP/IP Troubleshooting too, of same authors, you can take the test without any problem or fear.

This book does a very good job covering DNS, DHCP, WINS, and RRAS. However no single book will be enough to pass this exam. I used many practice tests and lots of hands-on, along with this book to pass. 70-216 is the toughest exam of the MCSE core requirements.

With all due respect to the author, this book will come handy this Christmas sitting by the fireplace.
I bought this book to help me in preparing for 70-216, to get more knowledge, informations and so on; thus being confident on the exam.
Instead, what I found that it has so many mistakes, so much redundancy, doesn't get straight to the point and uses to many non-sense words. If I could return it, I definitely would.

I have passed several of the Exams using the books in the series and "TestOut" software. But It wasnt enough to pass this exam on the first try. I just purchased Microsofts Training kit for the exam and I found better explanations of the exam questions than in this book.

Do not get this book unless you are new to computers and new to networking, even then it's bad. If you have been in the buisness for a few years this book will either make you laugh or cry it is so bad. So many mistakes, so much redundancy, 100 pages of information in 800 pages of [nonsense].

I used this book and transcender and passed the test. You need to use "microsoft's technet" and "microsoft's official windows 2000 site" to understand "IPSEC and Certificate Services" because this book is very poor in these concepts. I too recommend ucertify's demo simulates.

I read 3 different books for this topic and this is by far the absolute best book for this topic. It is clear concise writing with practical examples which make the new topics easy to understand.

This book not only prepares you to take the 70-216, which I passed the first time with an 820, but also gives sound advice and enough background information to more than prepare you. Kudos to Syngress Media and it authors/editors they have done a fine job with this title.

The book is definitely perfect. It covers all the details and exam objectives sufficiently. I think it even covers some topics more than required for the exam, so the book can be used not only as an exam prep book but also as a reference material on future carrier.

I think it's possible to pass the exam only with this book when accompanied with a few practice tests.

CD is insufficient, there is only one set of questions provided with an un-friendly interface. Exam simulator is a simple web based tool without advanced options like re-taking questions you are bad at or similar. This can take the book to 4-starts if you consider, you also pay for a practice question CD, however I would like to stay at 5 considering the quality of the book itself. There is nothing else intresting in the CD.

This book is a tremendous aid in preparing for the 70-216 Network Infrastructure MCSE exam. Each chapter provides you with the conceptual information you need to understand the subject. This is by far the best and most complete 70-216 book I have found.

This Syngess book was my core study guide and it covered about 90% of the topics on the exam which I passes with an 840. Unfortunatley no one book will cover everything except possibly for the 7000 page Server Resource Kit. I found it to be very accurate compared to the Sybex 70-216 2nd edition book. The core topics are covered very well - dns, wins, dhcp, ip addressing, nat/ics, vpn, ipsec, and rras. Certificate Services could have been more thorough and a more in depth explanation on cidr. The exam tips and two minute drills were very helpul in hammering home the important points and great for final study review. The overall layout of the book was excellent. The end of chapter questions for the most part were nothing like the real exam, so do not count on them to gauge your rediness for the real exam, but to be fair I have not found any book that has realistic exam type questions - the Sybex 70-216 2nd edition is close though. This Syngress book along with LOTS of hands on practice on a home network lab will help prepare you well for the exam. You will NOT be able to pass this exam by ANY book alone. I also recommend extensive use of the onboard help that comes with Windows 2000 - it is a wonderful resource. Also searching the Microsoft website for related articles (dns, dhcp, wins, rras, etc) for further study will serve you well. The Microsoft Readiness Reviews are a good companion practice exams that are similar to the real exam questions. The Syngress 70-216 book is a good choice for your main study guide.

It's not possible to give this book a minus 5 STARS!!! This is by far the most wasteful use of paper I have ever seen. If you think you are going to pass this exam with this book you are sadly mistakened. This book is not even close to what you need to study to pass the exam. I bought the book "Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure Administration by Paul Robichaux and James Chellis" and passed the exam. I would not recommend this book to anyone. As a matter of fact I have one that you can have for free. I will even pay for shipping.

This entire series of books is great. I passed this test on the first try using just this book, and some hands on practice on a test network.

This book is easy reading, but still teaches you everything you need to know for the exam and plenty to get you going in the real world.

70-216 is the most difficult exam of the 4 core MCSE 2K exams, I bought this book to prepare for it and never regretted it. I got also Sybex and MS Press books but this one is certainly the best. Buy also "Toubleshooting TCP/IP" book from the same authors/publisher and you will have no problem with the exam and you will be learning more than just how to deal with the questions on the exam (from those 2 books) even if you're new to this subject. Anything less than 4 stars for this book is unfair in my opinion, this is the book you should get if you're deciding between Sybex/MS-Press etc.

To get a comprehensive understanding of Network activities in windows 2000 environment. It is very good for exam . It is useful for learning. Even good for on the job ref. As an Instructor , I have no doubt that this is a good book. Some topic need more labs and explanations . But it is still one of the best.

I had high hopes for this book based on some of the reviews, but in the end I found myself scratching my head at the unclear explanations of such key areas (e.g. RRAS policies and how they are applied). The book covered all the key subjects (which is more than can be said of even Microsoft's book on 216), but certain topics merit more examples and discussion and this simply wasn't there. (Certificate Services, for example, missed a lot of important details). Even with the labs and hands on, no way is this book alone enough to pass the exam. I used the Microsoft Server Resource Kit to fill in a lot of the holes, as well as some other books, and of course, the Transcender exams.

The book is very comprehensive and goes into enough depth to cover virtually all the concepts in the 70-216 exam. What kills this book is the lack of concise, clear explanations and assumptions of an expected level of understanding of data networking technology. Please not everyone belongs to a well to do fortune XXXX company that can offer cisco and 3com network equipment labs. On top of that are serious syntax and typo errors which throws off another star for this book. If the book included more exercises like the Sybex book and was carefully critiqued, it would deserve at least a 4 star rating...but sorry you should have done that before carelessly releasing this study guide to the public

This is head and shoulders above the rest of the books in this series.

The book fairly thoroughly covers the material tested on the exam. By itself, it may be enough to get you past this exam, the most demanding (in my opinion) of the four. Overall, I was a little troubled by the lack of editing.

This book covers everithing you will need for the MCSE 70-216 Test, and is very nice orderly built. but what is a bit enoying is all those issues, which a little bit more explenations could have helped complete understanding, but there are only references to other Shinder's books of syngress.This promotion is not what you be expecting from sucha good book !

Excellent Study guide- if you're buying only one book for the 70-216 exam, this should be the one. I spent a week reading the book, and another 3-4 days on the CD . After this time, I was well prpeared for the exam. The book is extremely well done, and accurate. The one surprise I had coming was in regards to the CD. From past Study Guide purchases I was expecting a CD that was in the fair to Ok range. This one was really, really good. It has the entire Study Guide on it, which made it easy for me to carry to work- comes with video, audio tracks for the car, practice exam, etc. I was really happy with this book- my experience with this one made me pick up the Syngress Directory Services book.