Rating: Summary: 941/1000 after two weeks! Get it NOW! Review: This book is just fantastic (although quite heavy!) After heaving it with me on the bus to work every day for two weeks I took the Workstation exam and passed with 941/1000!!! The structure and methodology is spot on, and Alan Carter does a good job of bringing in real life examples.The labs are a good way of practising with NT on your machine and the Quick Reference guide at the back which maps the book's chapters to the exam's main topics is a great way to revise key points. I've been using NT Workstation for about 3 months now, but it really was the two weeks of hard work with this book that drove everything home. If you're serious about passing the exam and proving to the world that you're good enough to be an MCP then you should definitely read this book!
Rating: Summary: The Best NT4 Study Guide Review: This book isn't perfect, but it sure is the best NT4 MCSE study guide i've ever came across. Clear, concise and complete. It helped me pass all three NT4 exams without the slightest problem.
Rating: Summary: Still a 5 star book... Review: Yes it may be old. Yes, the exams may have changed. One thing hasn't changed, however, and that is the way that NT 4.0 works. This book provides step by step instructions about how to do anything that you want to in Windows NT 4.0. When I bought this book 2 years ago and used it to pass all three NT exams with very high scores in the space of about a month, I was impressed. Now that I still use it to look up some tiny, trivial process that I never perform, I'm still impressed. The only valid criticism that I have ever seen of this book is it's unwieldy size, but fortunately (if you're using it as a reference) a copy the book comes on the CD that is included. I see some people criticizing this book for "lack of depth" and failure to prepare you for "real world administration". To those people I have only one thing to say: "Get a grip!". This book is not meant to be an exhaustive resource about the nebulous inner workings of the NT operating system. It is meant to help you study and pass the exams, which it does with flying colors.
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