The Complete Microsoft Certification Success Guide [Paperback]

Anthony J. Gatlin (Author), John Mueller (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1997

Co-authored by a Microsoft insider, this guide to all of Microsoft's certifications has been updated and includes a new, interactive CD-ROM with assessment tests for the most popular exams. Information is provided on Microsoft courses, such as Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft SQL Server 6.5, an dInternet Information Server. Readers are provided with plenty of effective study strategies and insider exam preparation tips, as well as sound advice on how to leverage certification credentials once they are obtained. All four Microsoft certification programmes are covered.

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Take your best shot at the certification exam, with insider tips from Microsoft pros! Microsoft's certification program grew a staggering 350% in 1995, clear evidence that certification is of growing importance to computing professionals. Maximize your chances of success in today's hottest certifications by consulting this revised and updated edition of the Microsoft certification "bible." The Second Edition covers all four available certification programs and their requirements, as well as upcoming Microsoft courses. It helps you make the grade in Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server 6.5, Visual Basic 4.0, Internet Information Server, Word 95, Excel 95, and Access 95. Everything you need is here: Insights on how exams are designed; Tips on what to study and how to prepare for exams; Guidance on how to get hands-on experience with Microsoft products before taking an exam; Performance-enhancing strategies for test-taking; Advice on using certification credentials to obtain desired jobs. Also new to the Second Edition is an interactive CD-ROM with 6 practice self-assessment tests from Self-Test Software, the world leaders in practice test production for certificaitons. All the equipment you need for a smooth trip to certification is in your hands!

Product Details

• Paperback: 283 pages
• Publisher: Computing Mcgraw-Hill; 2nd edition (May 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0079132014
• ISBN-13: 978-0079132017
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,889,538 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars An underwhelming book with a few redeaming features., June 14, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The Complete Microsoft Certification Success Guide (Paperback)

This is a book for those who want to be prepared but made the mistake of thinking this book would help. The author has a firm grasp of the obvious and of how to type, pounding the obvious into the readers head until they are effectively moot points. Their is little structure to the book. Information is presented in long paragraphs which ramble around the information until the reader gives up and moves on to the next paragraph. Clear thoughts and segues from one topic to the next are as endagered in this book as Snickers bar in a Systems Administrator's cubicle. While the author seems to know his subject the reader has to work at gleaning the useful from the long winded.

The four redeaming qualities are: 1. Most of the information you want is in there, somewhere. 2. The appendices. 3. The Self Test Software self test CD. 4. The plug of Amazon.com on page 166.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book!, July 18, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Complete Microsoft Certification Success Guide (Paperback)

This book is great! It gave me all the insight I needed to get through the Microsoft Exams. Told all of the "tricks" necessary to pass these difficult exams! Two thumbs up!