MCSE Core Four Exam Cram Pack Adaptive Testing Edition: Exam: 70-067, 70-068, 70-073, 70-058 - Softcover

Tittel, Ed; Hudson, Kurt; Stewart, James Michael

9781576104491: MCSE Core Four Exam Cram Pack Adaptive Testing Edition: Exam: 70-067, 70-068, 70-073, 70-058

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ISBN 10: 1576104494 ISBN 13: 9781576104491

Publisher: Coriolis Group, 1999

Certification InsiderTM Press's Exam Cram series is designed and written by expert Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCTs) to help networking professionals quickly pass the exams. These books are 100% focused on helping professionals study for and pass a specific exam. Each book serves as an ideal complement to all study guides and training courses for the corresponding exam.

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Review:

Microsoft systems specialists who are on their way to earning the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) rating and other Microsoft certifications need to ready themselves for the new adaptive style of testing, which the company is phasing in. The newly revised MCSE Core Four Adaptive Testing Edition boxed set includes practice software that will help aspiring MCSEs prepare for this new type of exam.

Adaptive testing attempts to gauge a test taker's skill level as the test progresses. The computer software administering the exam records correct and incorrect responses, estimates the candidate's skill level, and then selects further questions suited to that level. If at the end of the exam the software has rated the candidate's knowledge above a certain threshold, the candidate passes.

The software may decide that a candidate who has demonstrated great expertise need only answer a few very hard questions correctly, while requiring a less skilled (but still competent) candidate to respond correctly to a greater number of easier questions. While adaptive exams have time limits, their rules prohibit going back to change (or even review) responses to earlier questions, allowing most candidates to finish before time expires.

The new MCSE Core Four books are similar to their popular predecessors, which makes sense since only the format of the Microsoft exams is changing. The books--addressing subject areas like Networking Essentials (70-058), Windows NT Server 4 (70-067), Windows NT Workstation 4 (70-073), and Windows NT Server 4 in the Enterprise (70-068)--provide succinct statements of the facts and concepts the Microsoft exams are designed to test for. The most notable change is in the CD-ROM included with this boxed set, which is composed of two adaptive-style practice exams for each of the four tests, in addition to two exams in the old test format. --David Wall

About the Author:

Ed Tittel (Austin, TX) is president of LANWrights, Inc., a training and content development company. His author team specializes in certification training and networking and has authored over 100 best-selling computer books.

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