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Title: MCSE IE4 Administration Exam Cram: Exam: 70-079 by David Johnson, Tim Catura-Houser ISBN: 1-57610-286-6 Publisher: Coriolis Group Books Pub. Date: 04 August, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99

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Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (8 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: This book is lacking...
Comment: I have used exam cram books for all the exams I have done (7 so far) and this book was the worst one. I was very impressed with the others but this one is too shallow and misses out too much information. When I did practise tests there was a lot of stuff I had not come across in this book.

Am afraid I can't recommend another book as this was the only one I used. Even though this was not the best book I have used I still passed the exam having never commercially used IEAK.

Rating: 4
Summary: Good enough for the exam
Comment: Just passed 70-79 this morning with an 812 (not the highest but a pass is a pass!). Used this book, Cram Session, and the IEAK Deployment Guide. While the book covers ISP and does explain things adequately, the deployment guide is almost everything you need to prepare for the test. Don't bother with the Transcenders if you have to pay for them, as the Deployment Guide and Cram Session should be enough. There were no surprises on the test.

Rating: 4
Summary: About as good as it gets, but...
Comment: ...the simple fact of the matter is that this exam also happens to be one of the most pedantic of Microsoft's MCSE+Internet exams, truly reaching the level of academic exercise. As per the official exam requirements sheet, the sheer amount of material to memorize in the form of menu-locations, the number of applets, the Active Desktop architecture, the IEAK, .CDF file formats and syntax, etc, is quite staggering indeed, on a par with memorizing a whole new OS which, let's face it, is what the IE+Desktop combo is for all practical purposes. The Exam Cram is certainly one of the better offerings I have seen, easily beating the pants off the MS Press IE Tech Support training guide. However, given that it is a cram-book, there is material that is glossed over, namely software distribution channels and the .CDF file architecture, which one will need to know for the exam. Other than that, a very good supplement for the pre-prime-time wrap-up and review. As far as the exam itself goes, is it a useful exam? Is there material covered from one which an administrator or networking consultant can derive utility from? Absolutely yes, no question about it. Is there some cool technology under the hood which can be utilized? Yes, indeed, again. What I am apprehensive about, however, is the amount of memorization of minutiae necessary to pass the exam vs. real-world situations. A disciplined networking professional (i.e. one who reads regularly and one who can't afford the time to memorize every specialized detail she/he comes across) can (and would) look up most of this info on (or preferably before) any gig. Given the omnipresence of simulation software today, wouldn't creating builds with IEAK given a set of specs/recs in a sim-lab on the PC, analyzing and troubleshooting it, and reducing the number of "pedantic" questions be a far better real-world assesment exam? In the meantime, stock up on the Ginkgo and Ginseng supplements and hunker down.....