MCSE Training Guide: Windows NT Workstation 4.0 (Training Guides) [Hardcover]

Alain Guilbault (Author), Brian Komar (Author), Larry Passo (Author), Barrie Sosinsky (Author), Erin Dunigan (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1562057693 | ISBN-13: 978-1562057695 | Publication Date: November 1997 | Edition: Bk&CD-Rom

MCSE Training Guide: Windows NT Workstation 4 provides users with all of the latest information they need to pass this exam and earn credit toward the MCSE certification. Written by a networking expert and an MCSE, MCT, this book contains all the insider tips, notes, and strategies readers need to successfully become an MCSE. This training guide contains hundreds of test questions, lists, tables, notes, tips and tricks to completely prepare readers for the exam. It's organized in a concise, easy-to-read manner to give users the most valuable information efficiently. This book is the fastest, most effective, and least expensive study tool for passing this exam. Electronic version of complete book is also included! This book provides complete coverage of Exam 70-73 Objectives, including: Planning; Installation and Configuration; Managing Resources; Connectivity; Running Applications; Monitoring and Optimization; and Troubleshooting.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Rumor has it that after Windows 98, Microsoft will make Windows NT Workstation its mass-market operating system. This possibility makes documented expertise in NT Workstation all the more valuable, and the best way to prove your knowledge of this operating system and its related technologies is to become an MCSE. This book helps you master NT Workstation and pass the portion of the MCSE Core Four (70-73) on this topic.

Guided all the way by a handy fold-out table that correlates exam objectives with particular chapters, this book covers everything on the NT Workstation exam. The authors open with planning suggestions, including ideas for preparing an unattended installation on many networked computers. The two NT file systems are compared, and the authors go into depth on configuring hardware to work with NT Workstation--which is important, because unskilled users work with NT Workstation and it does not support Plug and Play. Applications get cursory coverage, including a laughably brief introduction to DCOM.

Appropriately, networking with NT gets lots of coverage. Chapters explain the mechanics of setting up groups and permissions. Microsoft networks and TCP/IP networks get a fair amount of ink, but the coverage of integrating NT machines with legacy Novell NetWare is inadequate. A companion CD-ROM holds good-quality practice-quiz software (though questions often are repeated) from Productivity Point International, a training company.

From the Publisher

MCSE Training Guide: Windows NT Workstation 4 provides users with all of the latest information they need to pass this exam and earn credit toward the MCSE certification. Written by a networking expert and an MCSE, MCT, this book contains all the insider tips, notes, and strategies readers need to successfully become an MCSE.This training guide contains hundreds of test questions, lists, tables, notes, tips and tricks to completely prepare readers for the exam. It's organized in a concise, easy-to-read manner to give users the most valuable information efficiently. This book is the fastest, most effective, and least expensive study tool for passing this exam. - The most effective, inexpensive, and fastest way to pass the Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 exam

- Provides readers with more than just exam basics offers extra information on the technology itself

- Hundreds of practices test questions and hands-on lab exercises allow readers to test their knowledge right away

Product Details

• Hardcover: 563 pages
• Publisher: New Riders Pub; Bk&CD-Rom edition (November 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1562057693
• ISBN-13: 978-1562057695
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.8 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,858,524 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book is a bad nightmare..., December 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Testprep McSe: Windows Nt Workstation 4 (Testprep Series) (Textbook Binding)

This book is absolutely the worst technical book I have ever read. Too many typos to recollect. They rushed this book to press to make a buck - I paid the price in $ and misery wading through all of its errors. What was really bad was all the instances where the authors did not know what they were writing about - not just typos, they had no clue what they were writing about. Tim Crouthers and Luther Stanton are two authors that I will definately stay away from now on. Live and learn. It's very difficult to study for a test relying on a source that provides no confidence. A happy note - when I realized I had been taken, I redoubled my efforts and passed Workstation. Of course, I attribute my success to the Microsoft Press books I purchased, not this rag. Bad call New Riders.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good coverage of the material but terribly flawed., April 14, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: MCSE TestPrep: Windows NT Workstation 4 (Covers Exam #70-073) (Paperback)

This book appears to have gone to publishing without ever having been proof-read. The material that the authors cover is fairly well organized, however there are numerous errors in the text.

At times the authors contradict themselves, and at least 20 of the practice questions give an obviously wrong answer. There are also instances in the book where editing comments remain. On page 290 for example, there is a line reading "???Is it System Event Log (as above) or System Log (as below)?" - obviously a line that was not supposed to appear in the final text. Even the inside cover is in error - it lists 10 steps for passing the NT Server exam (not the NT Workstation exam).

Overall, I don't think this book does a adequate job of preparing someone for the exam.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars WARNING STAY AWAY, May 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Testprep McSe: Windows Nt Workstation 4 (Testprep Series) (Textbook Binding)

This book was actually a hinderance to gaining an MCP qualification. I could not find one chapter that did not have an error within the questions. Loosely phrased and actual wrong answers, riddled throughout. The only help this book would be is to know the subject and spot the mistakes. Useless. Quite scary really that people make money from this,. requires a thourogh profreading. Stay away