Certification InsiderTM Press's Exam Cram series is designed and written by expert Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCTs) to help networking professionals quickly pass the exams. These books are 100% focused on helping professionals study for and pass a specific exam. Each book serves as an ideal complement to all study guides and training courses for the corresponding exam.
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Microsoft systems specialists who are on their way to earning the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) rating and other Microsoft certifications need to ready themselves for the new adaptive style of testing, which the company is phasing in. The newly revised MCSE Core Four Adaptive Testing Edition boxed set includes practice software that will help aspiring MCSEs prepare for this new type of exam.
Adaptive testing attempts to gauge a test taker's skill level as the test progresses. The computer software administering the exam records correct and incorrect responses, estimates the candidate's skill level, and then selects further questions suited to that level. If at the end of the exam the software has rated the candidate's knowledge above a certain threshold, the candidate passes.
The software may decide that a candidate who has demonstrated great expertise need only answer a few very hard questions correctly, while requiring a less skilled (but still competent) candidate to respond correctly to a greater number of easier questions. While adaptive exams have time limits, their rules prohibit going back to change (or even review) responses to earlier questions, allowing most candidates to finish before time expires.
The new MCSE Core Four books are similar to their popular predecessors, which makes sense since only the format of the Microsoft exams is changing. The books--addressing subject areas like Networking Essentials (70-058), Windows NT Server 4 (70-067), Windows NT Workstation 4 (70-073), and Windows NT Server 4 in the Enterprise (70-068)--provide succinct statements of the facts and concepts the Microsoft exams are designed to test for. The most notable change is in the CD-ROM included with this boxed set, which is composed of two adaptive-style practice exams for each of the four tests, in addition to two exams in the old test format. --David Wall
About the Author
Ed Tittel (Austin, TX) is president of LANWrights, Inc., a training and content development company. His author team specializes in certification training and networking and has authored over 100 best-selling computer books.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An investment in your future,
By Matt Ewell, A+, MCSE, MCP+I (Boulder, Colorado) - See all my reviews
This review is from: MCSE Core Four Exam Cram Pack Adaptive Testing Edition: Exam: 70-067, 70-068, 70-073, 70-058 (Paperback)
I had barely touched NT Server, took no classes, and purchased no additional texts with which to supplement these books. Using Exam Crams and Transcenders, I had the MCSE wrapped up in less than four months. Yeah, my social life suffered over that time, but the point is, these books have what you need to pass.I read a couple of reviews that docked the quality of the CD. I didn't touch the CD, so that could be perfectly true. The books are pretty darn accurate, though, so buy the pack and stick with the printed page and you'll be good to go. One word of caution is that the practice quizzes and tests in these are less challenging than and/or not too applicable to the actual exams. I urge you to cough up some money for the Transcenders and take them only after you have read and studied these books. They are so much like the real thing (harder in most cases) it is frightening. I was working on a help desk when I bought these books. Now I support NT servers internally for a Fortune 100 company, and make close to double what I made about 6 months ago. Nuf said.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Don't expect to pass the test using only these books,
By A Customer
This review is from: MCSE Core Four Exam Cram Pack Adaptive Testing Edition: Exam: 70-067, 70-068, 70-073, 70-058 (Paperback)
These books contain many many errors, and do not cover everything that is on the test. If you want to pass the exams on the first try get the Microsoft self-paced books and the Microsoft Readiness Review books, the answers are correct and most correlate directly to the test. And NO I do not work for Microsoft, I got 866/1000 on NT Workstation, after giving up on the "Cram" series as the junk that it is....
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Large number of major errors made these books unusable,
By A Customer
This review is from: MCSE Core Four Exam Cram Pack Adaptive Testing Edition: Exam: 70-067, 70-068, 70-073, 70-058 (Paperback)
Don't make the mistake I did in assuming the second edition would surely have errors corrected from previous editions. Since this is a shrink-wrapped set you cannot determine the printing history of each book before you buy the set. Coriolis customer service would not even return my calls leading me to believe they know they have a lemon on the shelf and refuse to replace error-riddled sets. They've lost their credibility with these books.
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