Networking Essentials: Hands-On Self-Paced Training for Supporting Local and Wide Area Networks - Softcover

Microsoft Press; Microsoft Corporation

9781556158063: Networking Essentials: Hands-On Self-Paced Training for Supporting Local and Wide Area Networks

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556158068 ISBN 13: 9781556158063

Publisher: Microsoft Press, 1996

This is the official self-study guide to the fundamentals of networking technology--a core requirement for certification as a Microsoft Certified Systems engineer. Designed to prepare systems engineers for the Microsoft Certified Professional exam, it also provides a general understanding of the technical concepts and components in the LAN environment. The CD includes LAN simulation exercises. (Communications/Networking)

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Review:

Like most general networking texts for the non-expert, this offering from Microsoft Press explains all the expected stuff about network architectures and the reasons you'd want to set up a network in the first place. Networking Essentials, however, distinguishes itself by providing an in-depth look at administrating a network that is running Microsoft Windows NT 3.51 as its network operating system (NOS). Even though NT 4.0 replaced this outmoded NOS a year ago, lots of people still run 3.51 and it is still valuable to know.

This book's accompanying CD-ROM features some very handy animations that show how various network architectures work. These animations range from the simplistic--a green ball representing data zips into a telephone jack on the wall to illustrate modem communications--to the genuinely informative--green balls illustrate different means of avoiding or dealing with collisions.

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