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For Windows administrators preparing for Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) core exams 70-270, 70-290, and 70-291, this document not only provides the resources you need to succeed on the exams, but to succeed in the real world as well. Think of it as the notes you would have taken if you were to capture every essential nugget of information related to the skills measured in these exams.
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Title: MCSA on Windows Server 2003 Core Exams in a Nutshell
Subtitle: Covers exams 70-270, 70-290, and 70-291
First Edition: November 2006 My Printing was from 2007
Series: In a Nutshell
Format: PDF
ISBN 10: 0-596-51000-4
ISBN 13: 9780596510008
Pages: 586

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"For Windows administrators preparing for Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) core exams 70-270, 70-290, and 70-291, this document not only provides the resources you need to succeed on the exams, but to succeed in the real world as well. Think of it as the notes you would have taken if you were to capture every essential nugget of information related to the skills measured in these exams.

For Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 administrators preparing for Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) core exams 70-270, 70-290, and 70-291, this Short Cut is invaluable. Think of this document as the notes you would have taken if you were to capture every essential nugget of information related to the skills measured in these exams.

This Short Cut boils down the required knowledge to its finest core. To begin with, MCSA on Windows Server 2003 Core Exams in a Nutshell allows you to see all of the topics expected for mastery in each of the exams. Each exam is covered in three parts: "Exam Overview", "Study Guide" and "Test Your Knowledge" sections. This makes for easy reference and a great study aid.

Exam coverage includes:

EXAM 70-270: Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows XP Professional

EXAM 70-290: Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment

EXAM 70-291: Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure

The best way to use this document is during your final review. After you've built sufficient hands-on expertise and studied all the relevant texts, grab this and study it cover to cover, answering the provided sample questions, as part of your exam cram. Once you've completed the exams successfully, you will find this Short Cut to be a valuable reference to core Windows administration and security skills. The document uses the same successful format found in MCSE Core Required Exams in a Nutshell by William Stanek."

The pdf description is very accurate. This book looks like it is in at least the third printing, so many people have purchased it. I used this as a stand alone for the test. I took each section in a sifferent order and reviewed the highlighters section seven times, then read the rest of the book for that test, then took the practice exam, then took the real thing. No problem.

One really unique thing about the pdf is how easy it is to make notecards. If you copy and paste the answer to the questions in detail from the pdf, they are to memorize when you only have a few minutes in line here or a car ride there. No long hand and long times to create your cards.

The style was very easy to read. No awkward sentences or hard concepts that were not easily explained in the next few sentences. These authors have this process down to a science.

our stars because it is hard for a book like this to be definitive, else five stars.

Frederick J Eccher Jr
MBA
M.S. Management of Information Systems
A.B. Psychology
B.A. Biology
CIO, Community Partners
President, Board of Directors, Saint Louis Visual Basic Users Group
rick@stlvbug.net

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