IT Certification FAQ

A: How much detail are you looking for? The selection of a book to use as a study guide depends on what you want to accomplish. If you want a good shot at passing the AD Network Infrastructure exam, then pretty much any publisher's book will do the job. In terms of lots of detail, my experience has been that you can't beat the Microsoft Press book for any particular exam.

I myself used the New Riders/Que Certification book as well as some research material from Microsoft, and I passed the exam easily.

Book: MCSE Training Guide: Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure, First Edition, New Riders Publishing, ISBN 0-7357-0976-9

Research Material: Do a Google search for "Active Directory" while limiting the domain scope to microsoft.com.

Sir Big Mac

Like Mr Mac, I too used the New Riders training guide as my main study reference, backed up by the Mike Meyers Passport series and relevant chapters from "Mastering Windows 2000 Server". This is the 3rd New Riders book I have used and I was quite happy with it. The Passport series book was a bit of an experiment. I just read through it from start to finish as a final revision guide during the last few days before the exam. It served my purpose but, by it's own admission, only covers the exam objectives and I would not recommend it for use on it's own. The copy I had could also have benefited from another proof read as there were some horrendous typos. Good luck with the study but don't sweat it too much - I found the exam itself to be a bit of a dissapointment!

DJKJ

source: alt.certification.mcse

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