MCSE Core Exams Test Yourself Personal Testing Center with Book (Syngress Media Inc.) [Paperback]

Osborne (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1998 | ISBN-10: 0072119268 | ISBN-13: 978-0072119268

Prepare for your certification exams with the most effective Study Guide/CD-ROM Combination Available:

Product Details

• Paperback: 2200 pages
• Publisher: Osborne Publishing (November 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072119268
• ISBN-13: 978-0072119268
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 9.4 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,904,881 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not worth the bucks, November 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: MCSE Core Exams Test Yourself Personal Testing Center with Book (Syngress Media Inc.) (Paperback)

While the test questions themselves are very valuable, the program has a NUMBER of bugs in it which cause the questions and answers to be mismatched. For example, when you ask it to show you the answer to question 10 it may show you the answer to question 11 instead. Other bugs include showing you the answers as part of the question. EX: What is the right answer? A) yada yada B) yada yada C) this is the answer and why it's right. Very odd results occur while you are taking the practice tests. Some of the answers they provide are incorrect, a problem with their study guides as well. For example, several times they give you the START parameters incorrectly, and they can't seem to keep the default priority of applications straight. Once chapter references in correctly as 7, another will reference it as 8. It's clear that they have multiple people each write a chapter and throw it together with less than adequate technical editing. Someone wrote a review of their TCP/IP study guide and it was less than glamorous. If you're looking for a series of test questions, their paper version is much better (MCSE Certification Test Yourself Practice Exams ISBN 0-07-211854-7). You still have to deal with a few incorrect answers but at least you don't have to struggle with an application interface as well. It's always good to take as many test questions as possible, but the number of mistakes in this product make it very difficult to find it valuable.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DON'T BUY IT!, July 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: MCSE Core Exams Test Yourself Personal Testing Center with Book (Syngress Media Inc.) (Paperback)

I bought it, and I'm really sorry for having done so. The exam software interface was done using IE 4.0. And they made sure you couldn't run it on Netscape Navigator... The questions are full of mistakes, and when you try to get an answer in detail, about 50% of the times, you go to a page (html) that has nothing to do with it!!

Worst: most of those pages were not even finished! Yes, you can see that the text is only a draft! This is completly unacceptable for such an expensive package.

I've never spent my money so badly in a computer product...

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Far too many mistakes, July 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: MCSE Core Exams Test Yourself Personal Testing Center with Book (Syngress Media Inc.) (Paperback)

This is the worst MCSE software that I have seen. It is full of mistakes. There is a patch at their website but it didn't fix even half of the mistakes.