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McSe Windows Nt Server 4 for Dummies

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I'll start by saying that I would recommend The msce books for dummies on networking essentials and the NT Workstation exams. I WOULD NOT recommend paying money for the MCSE NT Server 4.0 dummies book. This book is filled with errors, and inaccuracies. The short comings that I found are in the areas of troubleshooting, Managing resources, win95 admin utilities for NT, and Optimization. I would like to add that the dummies series of books are normally a very well written series that puts the facts in plain english (no techno-babble). This book fell well short of my expectations, if you don't want to spend a LOT OF MONEY taking THE Microsoft NT 4.0 SERVER exam more than once, I strongly suggest finding another study aid besides this book! I used the WINDOWS NT 4.0 MCSE STUDY GUIDE by Alan R. Carter ISBN 0764530879. This is a very well written, concise and easy to read book with lots of good hands on labs! I passed the 70-67 server test with some help from THIS book. Good luck.

Unlike some of the readers who reviewed this book. I highly recommend it for the clear and concise information presented. I would not use it as a sole reference but in conjuction with another reference. Some answers in the book are incorrect (not many) but this is also the case in several of the highest rated books!! As a result, I passed the cert. exam on the first try. Enjoy

I had a better chance at finding Waldo in this book than finding accurate information regarding NT Server. I tore the pages out and let my new puppy pee all over them. If you're preparing for the NT Server exam, look elsewhere. The guy who wrote this book is a DUMMY. Shoot me if anybody ever sees me buy an MCSE for Dummies book again.

The book offers a good overview of the MCSE server exam. Some of the other reviewers here have slammed the book as being full of errors. I think the Microsoft exam had more errors that this book. What this book does do is give the reader a good overview of what they should and should not study. As with all of the exams, you should never rely on a single source to prepare yourself. Always read at least TWO different prep guides!

One note: This book covers the OLD exam format and thus is not as helpful as some newer guides or computer based training exams such as Transcender.

Unlike most of the other reviewers, I thought that this was an excellent book. The order of content was well laid out. There may have been a few silly mistakes(there are in most books), but an intelligent person could figure them out. I highly recommend this as your first book on the subject.

This book is very good at explaining NT Server 4.0 but it is not what a professional should use. I used this and Exam Cram and passed the test with a 833. If you are new to NT this book is helpful but if you are knowledgeable of NT Server don't bother with it. The book puts terms into to simple terms for just about anyone.

The most average book I have ever seen. I don't know what I really expected as the MCSE is not a qualification for DUMMIES. Maybe apart from the rrors this book will make you pass the test but don't think that will help you get job because it has virtually nothing that would be helpful in the real world. Avoid this one like the plague.

This book already has plenty of one-star reviews so I am just piling on here. But having just passed the exam (with a 933), I felt compelled to come here to warn other MCSE candidates to stay away from this book.

This book is not only full of inexcusable errors but it is poorly laid out as well. Many of the "practice" questions cover material that will never be asked in the actual exam. It is hard to believe that the so-called MCSE's who wrote this book would put their names to it. Fortunately I realized that this book was useless early on and I was able to pass the test easily using other study materials.

If you want to pass this exam, you are much better off with the excellent Exam Cram book and the infamous "Braindump" website (as well as your original course material).

I am normally a big fan of the "Dummies" books but this one was a big disappointment. The "Dummies" books excel at giving novices some rudimentary information about a given topic with a good dose of humor. But getting your MCSE is serious business and the "Dummies" people clearly are not up to the task As soon as I came home from passing my exam, I took this book and threw it in the recycle bin. A total waste of money.

This book was _awful_.

The MCSE for Dummies series as a whole tends to be riddled with minor mistakes - but most of those are obvious are offset by the benefit gained from a book written in easy-to-understand language.

But this particular book, however, is full of misinformation! For example, some of the explanations for the "answers" to the sample tests are _flat_wrong_. The errors are not always obvious at first either. I'd read less than halfway through before I realized that absorbing the information in this book could actually jeopardize my chances of passing the test.

The authors may have their MCSEs, but I suspect their real-world experience is rather limited.

Study the Windows NT Server section of "Core Exams in a Nutshell" instead and you should do fine.

Started studying with this book...but found using this as a first resource was a bad mistake. Not only does this book have many glaring ommissions which are needed to pass the test, but the information on CD was not even close to what was needed on the test.

After using CBT's from NetG, New Riders books and Transcenders, scored an 899 on the test.

Good book for kindling for my fireplace.