If you're an MCSE candidate in search of a sparer style, you might be happier with a different TCP/IP preparation book; but if you prefer readable prose and experiments in addition to lists of facts, you'll appreciate the authors' approach here. If you don't want to haul a book around at all, you will benefit from the quiz programs on the two CD-ROMs that accompany the book. --David Wall

Need to Pass this Exam Fast? then Use this book.   January 30, 2001

GOOD LUCK


Not the last book purchased on TCP/IP   December 1, 2000
Book is full of information on routing, WINS, DNS. Detailed explanation of how name resolution works. Has a great sample Transcender demo included. I Still had questions after reading the book from front to back.


disappointed   November 29, 2000
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Throughout the book, the author is trying to be funny instead of really explaining the material. It was a frustrating book to read, and I'd wish I bought another book. Because I have experience with TCP/IP, I passed the exam, but most of the questions were not really covered in this book.

MCSE, MCP+I, CCNA


Average Book   September 3, 2000
  0 out of 1 found this review helpful

This book is at best an average book, it has adequate coverage of the topics, but there are better books on the subject


Rambling, digressing tale of TCP and IP   August 20, 2000
I have begun to read through the book and so far it has proven to be a disappointing start. The authors, if they understand the material well, cannot convey it in a coherent manner and often disappear into the woods mumbling about subnetting and IP classes. By all means, do NOT use this book alone; instead, use as supplements other books like "MCSE: Electives in a Nutshell" by Michael Moncur and the Microsoft Readiness Review. There are books (and authors) that, at the end, murder their subject matters. But it seems that Todd and Monica are already guilty of manslaughter by Chapter 2, and that does not bode well for me.