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Title: MCSE TCP/IP Exam Cram by Ed Tittel, Kurt Hudson, J. Michael Stewart, James Michael Stewart ISBN: 1-57610-195-9 Publisher: Coriolis Group Books Pub. Date: 13 January, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99

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Average Customer Rating: 4.16 (61 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Check it out. Index Listed Below.
Comment: The Exam Cram books are great. I've used many of them and have the entire series.

I think this one leaves a little to be desired in that it needs to be bigger, with more sample problems. Never-the-less, this is the book I would and did choose to start studying with.

I recommend that anyone using this book supplement their studies with practice tests, flash card questions, and other books.

Index:

1. Microsoft Certification Tests

2. Concept and Planning: TCP/IP and Windows NT 4

3. Installation and Configuration

4. IP Addressing

5. Subnet Addressing

6. Implementing IP Routing

7. IP Address Resolution

8. Host Name Resolution

9. Domain Name System (DNS)

10. NetBIOS Name Resolution

11. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

12. Windows Internet Name Service (WINS)

13. Connectivity

14. Implementing the SNMP Service

15. Performance, Tuning, and Optimization

16. Troubleshooting

17. Sample Test

18. Answer Key to Sample Test

Rating: 5
Summary: Everything is pertinent, no filtering needed.
Comment: After using Sybex for Server 4 and Workstation 4, I almost gave up on ever understanding TCP/IP when I started with Sybex TCP/IP. Sybex made the convoluted subject of TCP/IP much worse that it actually is. They also had looooong stupid analogies throughout the book that were a waste of reading time.

On the other hand, Exam Cram was extremely orderly and offered the most concise and understandable explanations of the TCP/IP suite. They helped the reader build a framework or context to hang all the information on rather than the seemingly endless flow of disconnected information presented in Sybex.

Also, I have read what the OSI model is in at least 6 books. This was the first time it was explained in way that gave it some "reality" rather than a mysterious abstraction.

When learning any subject from a book, the reader must "select" a distilled set of facts and relationships to put to memory. This book has effectively condensed the subject to the essential basics, so much less energy has to be spent on reduction. Everything is pertinent, no filtering needed.

The 5th printing has corrected most of the errors referred to by other reviewers.

Rating: 5
Summary: Concise with all the necessary info to Pass
Comment: Passed with a score of 933. This was not the only book that I read but it is great way to ram home all of those facts towards the end and to know what info is necessary for the test. Do yourself a favour and buy this book but get another to go with it.