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| Senior Member Registered Member  Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canada
Posts: 784
Certifications: Bachelor of Business (MIS), DIT (Networking). Certification(s): Superman. Working towards CEO.  |
 Simulator SW for MCSE Currently I don't have a lot of hardware to setup a network to study for MCSE exams. Do you know of a good simulator to study for MCSE courses? __________________ Blaming tfosorciM | ||
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| Senior Member Registered Member  Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Deforest, WI
Posts: 1,020
Certifications: B.S. Technology Mgmt., MCTS: Vista Configuration, MCTS: Windows 7, Configuring  |
Why not use VMware or MS Virtual PC or similar? You can get VMware Server for free or MS Virtual PC free as well. Any relatively modern PC with enough RAM should be able to get you all the hands-on you need for the MCSE and if needed memory is dirt cheap these days anyways. Having said that, the only simulators I've ever used were the little lab sims built into the Testout CBT's (which are just brief simple do this, do that tasks) and a simulator that came bundled with one of the texts used in a Server 2003 class I had a couple years back - I forget who made that simulator but it was terrible. If you really want to shoot for the MCSE, definitely see if your PC can handle a handful of Server 2003 virtual machines (use a trial copy for Server 2003), it's really the only way to do it right IMO. | ||
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| Señor Member Registered Member  Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 325
Certifications: MCSE, VCP (3.5), A+, Network+, CIW Professional, CIW Database Design Specialist, Next: Security+ |
A computer with a quad core processor and 4GB RAM and 50-100GB free disk space will give you more than enough power to handle several virtual machines running for your MCSE lab. Download VMware Server or Virtual PC for free and get trial versions of 2003 Server to cut your costs. | ||
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| SupremeNetworkOverlord Registered Member  Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: An Irishman at bay amongst Rednecks
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Certifications: CCIE #23276 - Security , CCSP,CCNA,MCSE 2003: Security,LPIC-1 |
I did mine with 4 VMs on a single core Athlon 3000 with 1.5GB of ram, Just juggle your resources and you won't need anything high end for the host. __________________ We responded to the Year 2000 issue with "Y2K" solutions...isn't this the kind of thinking that got us into trouble in the first place? | ||
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| Senior Member Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Deforest, WI
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Certifications: B.S. Technology Mgmt., MCTS: Vista Configuration, MCTS: Windows 7, Configuring |
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| Senior Member Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canada
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Certifications: Bachelor of Business (MIS), DIT (Networking). Certification(s): Superman. Working towards CEO. |
Thanks a million guys  It was an awesome suggestion to go with virtualization. I'm using MS Virtual PC and it really rocks. __________________ Blaming tfosorciM | ||
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