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MCSE Testprep: Windows 95 (Covers Exam #70-063)

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I have studied this book for two hours avery day for two years. I'm not joking, it's a class for school. I went to take the exam and I passed but I felt that they did not cover enough Networking stuff. They should emphasize more in this part. I also used the Windows 95 Resource Kit to study and that hepled to clear out the missing networking piecies in my puzzle.

What separate technicians apart from each other are usually the certifications they hold. What is need to get that certification? Time, money, studying and most of all the study material. The MCSE Training Guide for Windows 95 is one book that will make getting the MCP easier.

800 plus pages of information that take apart the exam 70-064 objective by objective. I thought working with Windows 95 for five years I knew enough to pass the exam, this book showed me things I had never seen before.

From planning to installing and configuring to integration and monitoring to the optimization and troubleshooting, this book breaks down what you need to know in a format that even the beginner can understand.

The book comes with Test Prep Software to give you a look at what types of questions you'll get on the exam. Also you have flash cards and a study system to help you better prepare for the test. Overall this book makes passing the exam easier and financial independence quicker.

The 70-64 Windows 95 exam is tricky, but this book provides a very good foundation for the success. It does cover much more than is actually on the exam, and as such serves as a reference for the OS. I do think you will need to supplement study with the Windows 95 resource kit, but all the objectives on the exam are covered in the book. While the sample questions are sometimes lame (and really do not mimic the exam) there is an appendix which provides GREAT last minute study tips. The section on troubleshooting is fantastic, written by a person who obviously has spent time in the field wrestling with the same kind of problems administrators see every day. All in all, it is well worth the money I spent.

I used this book to study for my windows 95 70 064 exams.I scored 734(cut off 632).This book by the nature of its presentation gave me an excellent comprehension of Windows 95.When I started final exam revision with transenders I did well but also found the book did not treat fax,windows messaging and dial-up networking well.

I consider the money spent on this text a complete waste. Concepts are introduced without explnation. Some material is never covered at all (you discover this fact when you attempt the section reviews questions which often ask questions about material the book never covers).I was hoping for a good text to accompany Sybex's Win95 exam prep. This certainly was not the choice. Buyer beware...

I found this book rather confusing. Many of the stuff covered in the book was not needed and there are many needed materials that are not covered at all in the book. There are a lot of technical errors in the book and I feel like many of the sample questions in the book simply tried to trap you and humiliate you instead of giving you an idea how the real exam questions are like. If you are counting this book as your only resource to prepare for the exam, good luck!

The people who wrote this book would like you to believe that this is the only text you will need to pass 70-64.

You can try, but I'll bet if you memorized this book cover to cover, you would still fail.

This book, in my opinion, omits a lot of information that you need for the test. And I mean a lot of information. I would highly suggest getting a copy of the Windows 95 Resource Guide and using Exam Cram or the Sybex Windows 95 Study Guide. The Exam Cram is good if you have a good working knowledge of Windows 95 already.

In any case, I just wanted to let people know that I dropped $50 on this book and if this was the only book I used, I would have failed the test. It is confusing and poorly written.

If you don't believe me, check out some MCSE web sites on the web and read for yourself. I can't speak for all the New Riders books for MCSE, but this one stunk.

E. Detwiler

This book is a good starting point for the newly revised Windows 95 (70-064) exam. I just took it and scored 857 (minimum passing score is 632). The book goes into detail on topics that are heavily covered on the exam (networking with NT and NetWare, printing, system policies), and this makes it a great place to start studying. However, the 95 exam is full of nitpicky questions that are NOT covered in this book; you need additional sources to be completely prepared. In addition to buying this book, I'd recommend downloading the Win95 Resource Kit from Microsoft's Web site and spending some time going through it, especially troubleshooting. Also search the web for "70-064" to turn up helpful links. This is one of the hardest exams in the MCSE sequence, but if you use these sources you should be in good shape.

I bought the Que Win95 TestPrep book with two weeks until the exam. This being my first exam, I had no idea what to expect. Because there was so many questions, it prepared me for any question that the exam might ask. I would have never passed the exam without this book, it is a lifesaver. The Net Essentials equivalent is also a very good book

This is a cheap book with lots and lots of sample exam questions, but many, way too many errors -- dozens! Wrong answers. Answers that contradict the text on its own pages earlier in the book, and repeated questions on the same topic (at least once with two different answers!) And explanatory text on the various exam topics is nearly non-existent at times and very erratic in its depth of coverage.