>Oh, the most cost effective way to prepare yourself is really to build
a
>network as cheaply as possible and use material from your local library
and
>the mountain of documentation that comes with the the product in the
help
>and support center. Classes are good if you don't know a certain aspect
of
>the product. My downfall is still RRAS. I purchased a fifty dollar book
that
>I could use at work and to help study and build the test environment as
>though I didn't have anything but windows machines and layer 2
switches.
>Seems weird, but it is Microsoft's product and their test I'm taking
so,
>that's why I'm doing it.
You missed out the very important point about actual real world
experience. It's all very well building a 'home lab' in order to
'learn' about the product, but this hardly counts in the real world
where situations are completely different.
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