MCSE Exchange Server 5.5 Exam Cram (Exam: 70-081) [Paperback]

Ed Tittel (Author), Tim Catura-Houser (Author), Barry Shilmover (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 6, 1998 | Series: Exam Cram (Coriolis Books)

The best way to study for the Exchange Server exam is with a copy of Certification Insider Press's MCSE Exchange Server 5.5 Exam Cram. This expertly written book is focused 100% on helping professionals prepare for a difficult exam. Important technical topics covered include: protocols including HTTP, Network News Transport, HyperText Transport, Post Office (POP3), LightWeight Directory Access, IIS and Active Server Pages, collaboration and information sharing, setting up news servers, configuring newsfeeds, and supporting dial-up networking and POP3 clients.

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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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 300 pages
• Publisher: Coriolis Group Books; 1st edition (August 6, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576102297
• ISBN-13: 978-1576102299
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,326,726 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bad. Incomplete. Awful., December 21, 1999

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This review is from: MCSE Exchange Server 5.5 Exam Cram (Exam: 70-081) (Paperback)

This book was horrible. It was incomplete in some spots, and simply wrong in others. Avoid this book as a study guide.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars There are much better books for this exam, December 29, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: MCSE Exchange Server 5.5 Exam Cram (Exam: 70-081) (Paperback)

I became an MCSE today, but not because of this book. I think that other books in this series are fairly good (particularly the OS books), but as you can see from the other reviews, there are numerous errors in this book. (Watch out for a particularly nasty ones like on page 298 in the %DiskTime note--"less than 90" should read "more than 90"--very misleading, though this paragraph has nothing to do with Exchange to begin with!)

The style is rather hard to follow, too. They give you lots of background on things you don't need to know (particulary about NT Server), and some of the questions are ludicrously frivolous. (There are ___ ways to change a meeting time for an event that is already created. a. 0 b. 1 c. 2 d. 3 e. 4 My answer: f. Who cares?) What makes it worse is that some critical information is only presented as a bulleted item in one of many poorly explained lists.

The cram sheet in the front, unlike in the other books in this series, is utterly useless. It barely touched the surface of what was on my test; it's more like a high-level glossary.

If you seriously want to pass 70-081, buy Sybex's Exchange Server 5.5 Study Guide (ISBN 0-7821-2261-2) instead. It's a lot clearer, more accurate, and not as long as it looks. If you can answer all the of questions in it and know why the answers are right, I guarantee (morally, not legally :-) that you'll pass 70-081 without any problem.

So the nutshell version of my review boils down to this: This book claims to be "the first and last book you need to read before taking your certification exam." I think it's more like "the one you skip."

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars By far the weakest Exam Cram book!, May 21, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: MCSE Exchange Server 5.5 Exam Cram (Exam: 70-081) (Paperback)

I've passed my MCSE+Internet now, and this was by far the least helpful in the Exam Cram series, lacking the readibility of others in the series, and missing out on large sections of important topics. I notice that the authors for this book differ to most of the earlier Exam Crams, and I'll be keeping an eye out for their names in future - so I can avoid it!