I have read through Carter's "Windows 2000 MCSE Study System", as well as the Sybex and Microsoft Official Curriculum courses covering the four 2000 Core exams. I am once again impressed at how clearly, logically, and completely Carter has treated the materials needed for the first two exams, W2K Pro and W2K Server MCP. These two exams assume that you have a broad understanding of 2000, including materials that you would expect to find only on the Network Infrastructure and Directory Services exams. If you carefully read through Carter's book , work through the dozens of step-by-step and lab exercises, skim the book a second time, and use Transcender exams for practice, you should have no trouble passing the Server and Pro exams with high scores AND have a solid foundation on which to complete your Network Infrastructure and Directory Services core exams.

As the best written "single" volume book on the market, Carter's 2000 book deserves 5 (or even 6) stars. However, for what it purported does, prepare you for all four 2000 core exams, it rates 4 stars because it does not sufficiently cover the materials for the Networking Infrastructure and Directory Services core exams. As always, Transcender exams will boost your score a 100+ points, but you would be well served to supplement Carter (and Transcender) with the two books from Sybex's MCSE Study Guide series that cover these exams. Also remember to bring an exorcist to the two Networking Infrastructure exams (Administering--core and Design--elective), because as one reviewer has remarked on a major certification website, they are "evil, evil, evil".

Bob Nordling MCSE, MCP+I, MCT, CTT, A+, Network+, i-Net+ and a worshipper at the altar of Cisco, i.e. a CCIE wannabe