MCSE Mcp+i Training Guide Internet Exams [Hardcover]

Joe Casad (Author), Wayne Dalton (Author), Emmett Dulaney (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 15, 1998 | ISBN-10: 1562058797 | ISBN-13: 978-1562058791

This text provides a complete training programme giving a step-by-step approach to preparing for the Internet Specialist exams. It covers technological details with the chapters organized around the exam topics and objectives.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Covering the three most popular exams that lead to MCP+I certification, MCP+I Training Guide provides all the information you need in one volume at a relative bargain price. You'll find clear, complete prose in these pages, along with excellent exercises and review questions. Some truly super test-simulation software rounds out the package.

Each chapter begins with a handful of questions. The idea behind this technique is that if you know the answers to a chapter's opening questions, you need not spend much time studying it. The chapters' conclusions really prove useful: Exercises are guided tours through specific procedures, while review questions provide a multiple-choice quiz.

Overall, the authors' writing styles and other means of communicating information to the reader are very good. They typically walk through the Microsoft-specified exam objectives one by one, spending relatively little time on broad concepts and focusing instead on detailed procedures. A couple of illustrations come across as gigantically silly (the one showing a man spreading his arms wide to illustrate the "bigger" partitions supported by NT file server seems especially dumb). More tables of facts would help those who need to learn material in a hurry.

As is the case with other books in this series, MCP+I Training Guide comes with an excellent CD-ROM. The CD-ROM holds a searchable copy of the book's text, as well as a very good piece of test-simulation software. -- David Wall

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1540 pages
• Publisher: New Riders Pub (June 15, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1562058797
• ISBN-13: 978-1562058791
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 8 x 2.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,273,595 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good TCP/IP summary, Poor IIS 4.0 Coverage, December 9, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: MCSE Mcp+i Training Guide Internet Exams (Hardcover)

I took MS IIS 4.0 exam after I read this book (among other resources). The coverage of IIS 4.0 is poor specially SMTP and NNTP. The test sample does not resemble MS actual test questions at all. There is too much emphasis on numbers (max number of concurrent http connection, default NNTP time out etc.) and other service parameters. MS exam did not include any question of that sort. If you are new to IIS you better off reading an in-depth book such as MS Press Running IIS.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Well organized, but many errors., May 21, 1999

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This review is from: MCSE Mcp+i Training Guide Internet Exams (Hardcover)

The New Rider series is generally well laid out and a good summary of test material. In this case, however, the book is so poorly produced it can do positive harm to your studies if you don't have a good second source. If the numerous typos were not enough, there are specific errors of fact in important content, and erronious numbering of exercises and answers to add to your confusion.

There are many more professionally finished sources than this one.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Courses outlined due to retire, December 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: MCSE Mcp+i Training Guide Internet Exams (Hardcover)

All courses covered by this book are set to retire Dec 31, 200