Winners of Microsoft Subnet and Cisco Subnet contests

We are tickled to announce the winners of our October giveaways. The grand prize winner of the October Microsoft Subnet giveaway is Wendy Newton (pictured), IT manager for Bowman and Brooke LLP. She won a free Microsoft training course from Global Knowledge. Wendy is overseeing a whole bunch of state-of-the art technology projects for her company including the installation of Exchange Server 2010 with Outlook Voice Access and Unified Messaging. She plans to use her free training to take an Exchange 2010 course.

Wendy correctly answered the trivia question According to Glenn Weadock’s  September 30 blog post, what is the term for “a network interface mode in which the NIC reports every packet that it sees”? Answer:  “Promiscuous mode.”

In addition, the following 15 people won a copy of Microsoft Expression Web 3 In Depth by Jim Cheshire. Each correctly answered the trivia question: According to the chapter excerpt of  Microsoft Expression Web 3 In Depth,  what type of code can be added easily by pressing Ctrl-Enter while in Code View? Answer: Code snippets. If you have an interest in Web design, check out Jim Cheshire’s killer guest blog, filled with design and coding tips.

Gustavo Preciado

Michael Hagerty

Jose Moreno

Jason Stroud

Eugenie Wu

Warren Weinmeyer

Stephen Mandel

Daniel Leiter

David Bialik

Daniel Peters

Harold Gale

Dave Dahl

Alex Tong

Julie Evans

Phillip Snyder

The grand prize from Cisco Subnet of a

free training course from Global Knowledge goes to David Kotlerewsky (pictured), systems engineer for InterVision Systems Technologies Inc. David thinks he’ll use his free training for a class that will get him closer to his CCIE.

David correctly answered the trivia question: According to the September 18 blog post by Global Knowledge instructor Dennis Hartmann, what does the acronym SRST stand for? Answer:  Survivable Remote Site Telephony 

The following 15 people each won a copy of Building Service-Aware Networks: The Next-Generation WAN/MAN by Muhammad Afaq Khan, delivered to their door for free. They each correctly answered the trivia question According to the chapter excerpt of Building Service-Aware Networks, one of the four main types of WAN architectures is DCI. What does the acronym DCI stand for? Answer: Data center interconnect

Alfred Tong

David Croteau

Travis Van Duyn

Cesar Puentes

Brian Bristlin

Mariann Luppino

Benjamin Newell

Scott Thomas

Brian Bubar

David Jira

Jim Fox

Michael Bess

Sarah Wood

Kevin Huang

Ramiro Garza

Congratulations to all winners! If you want a chance to win free books and free training, enter our November contests. We have books on VMware vSphere security, Exchange Server 2010, Google Android up for grabs, as well as free training from New Horizons.

All information and entry forms can be found on our Contests and Giveaways page.