MCSE: Proxy Server 2 Study Guide
Author: Erik Rozell, Todd Lammle, James Chellis
List Price: $49.99
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ISBN: 0782121942
Publisher: Sybex (April, 1998)
Sales Rank: 17,796
Average Customer Rating: 3.18 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 4 out of 5
Very Good Book - Well Written - Great For Starters & MCSE !
Based on the reviews in this site I purchased this book. It's a great book and covers the material very well. The Exam objectives are well covered and with screen images of the proxy server different components and tools it's easy to read the book without using an actual Proxy Server (But using the actual product makes life easy and very helpful on the test). The book repeats the material in some instances to help clarify things as it introduces new ideas and concepts. I would recommend this book for anyone wanting to Learn Proxy and Prepare for the Exam. Passing Proxy Exam 2.0 with a good grade requires a little bit more than what this book offers, the Exam has some nice tricky questions that integrate in some cases many concepts from the Proxy Services which may cause a problem for non-experienced users.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Excellent for Exam preparation
I am an MCT, MCSE, MCP+I and have found this to be one of the most understanding and thorough books for a Microsoft product. It has some errors but not any more than you find in most of the new books hitting the shelves. I am reading two other Proxy books and have yet to be as impressed as I was with this book. I will be recommending this as a reference book in the classroom. With respect to the exam - I am reviewing a beta version of the Transcender Proxy 2.0 exam (they are known to be harder than the real exams) and this book sets a person on the right track. The only complaint I have is the poor section on subnetting - though this is not meant to be a TCP/IP study guide. (Prerequisite knowledge for the Microsoft Proxy course is IIS and TCP/IP.)
Certainly worth the money.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Too much useless information
If you are using this as a study guide, go elsewhere. Its close to 600 pages, only about 170-220 should have been used to cover what is on the Proxy Exam. I finally decided to use something besides the Exam Cram books, and do I ever regret it. The author even states at one point, "you might be asking why you need to know this". I agree that knowledge is power but save the extra 400 pages for another book about proxy. It is definately a poor study guide. You get so bored with the mounds of useless info that you are a zombie by the time he gets to the good stuff. s
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