Winners of the November books and training giveaways

We're sending goodies to 46 Network World readers. Thanks for a great year!

By Microsoft Subnet on Fri, 12/04/09 - 3:17pm.

Our grand prize winner of a free training course worth up to $2,500 from New Horizons is Aurelio Pacheco, LAN support specialist for a west coast financial institution. Pacheco isn't sure what kind of training he will take, but is leaning toward Exchange 2010 training. The company is running 2003 now and is considering an upgrade when it cuts over its XP machines to Windows 7. Pacheco won this prize by successfully answering the following trivia question:

New Horizons instructor and blogger Bryan Sullins says there are seven must-study items for anyone new to virtualization, what is the No. 1 item (hint: it is four words long)?Answer: Host installation and configuration

Additionally 45 people won books from Pearson Education. Pearson Education sells books from a variety of publishers through its InformIT web site and has generously given away free books to more than 400 Network World readers in 2009 (and offered discount coupons to hundreds more who entered our contests).

The following 15 folks won copies of Android Wireless Application Development by correctly answering the following trivia question: According to the book excerpt from Android Wireless Application Development, for whom has Google made the Android Dev Phone 1, a phone compatible with Android 1.0 and 1.1 available? Answer: Registered Android developers.

Joseph Sireci, Sarah Salter, Dennis Carter, Howell Lee, George King, Jonathan Isett, Brian Beamer, Qilin Kang, Brad Davis, Robert Beers, David Vincent, Jodie Monette, Errol Parachojuk, Joe Hullender and Peter Eriksson.

The following 15 people won a copy of Exchange Server 2010 Unleashed by correctly answering the following trivia question. According to Table 3.1 in the book excerpt hosted on Microsoft Subnet, is Exchange 2010 compatable with Windows Server 2003 R2? Answer: No

Harry Avery, Scott Frasier, Ryan Booth, Christopher Groshong, Paul Dippel, Jeremy Frick, Assem Nazar, Walt Roshon, Jas Pane, Michael Royer, Andon Todorov, Mark Benton, Khyle Nathe, Mike Maggitti, and Bryan Zabchuk.

The following 15 people won a copy of VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security: by correctly answering the following trivia question. In the excerpt of the book VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security, what is the big issue with implementing virtualization security? Fill in the blank of this sentence "The big issue with implementing virtualization security is that there may appear to be duplication of effort from ___________: Answer: the physical world

Evan Mintzer, Simon Chaba, Nicola Pisicchio, Keith Scott, Shawn Albright, Siyamack Rezaie, Arthur Kemp, Rikki Godshall, Jim Krebs, Matt Millington, Ron Nehren, Scott Lee, John Collins, Tom Kustner and Buzzy Manning.

Congratulations to all of our winners! Stay tuned for more great contests and giveaways coming to you in 2010. We thank you for reading Network World and for participating in our Subnet communities.

Please check out the great blog full of tips and tidbits from the our November guest authors.
Shane Conder and Lauren Darcey, Android Wireless Application Development
Rand Morimoto, Secrets of Exchange 2010
Edward Haletky, VMware tips and insights