Help me... selecting a good MCSE trainning Kits.

[TiggerTigger]

Hi everyone,

I am looking for a good MSCE trainning kit or books.
I want to get certify. Would someone please recommend some good books or study guide for me?
it is better to take those trainnig class or learn by the books is alright?

Thank you in advance.

TiggerTigger
p.s. I posted to the wrong forum early.
and thx for those who refer me to this forum.

 

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[SVTPower]

Actually if it's possible and you have the spare machines you should make a small home network so you also have the hands-on to the interface. My company has sent me to two of those 1 week 40 hour classes (CLSC and Solaris 7) and it was too rushed, I really didn't get anything from the Solaris class, the Cisco one was okay though. But otherwise I would get the MS Press books and the Exam Cram, All the other 3rd party books to me were kinda laid out funny in my opinion.

Also get the Resource Kit books and get the Transenders if possible, the answers will refer you to pages in the Res kit.

 

[perry]

TiggerTigger, The Sybex books and the Microsoft Press books are both very good. Sybex is a bit easier to read, MS Press is a little more on the technical side, IMHO. Learning by the books is fine if you can learn that way. It just takes dedication and hard work. Having a couple of computers accessible so you can practice some of the networking stuff will be a big help. Some people need a little more motivation to learn so the class is better for them.

 

[TiggerTigger]

Thanks everyone.

I am interested in the Sybex, Sygress and the MS press books. and the Transcenders prep exam.

which publisher is better? The Transcenders prep exam are too expensive, not sure how useful it will be. =(
Did any of you used one of the product?

I only have access on Win2k professional... but not server. =(

Would you please give me another comments..
Thank you

TiggerTigger

 

[Deicide]

i've used transcendor's for the past 4 mcse tests that I've taken. They are a BITCH, the real tests aren't nearly as hard. Still, they are good preparation, as they give good explainations for the answers. If you want a really good, cheap study guide, do a search for FRAVO study guides. These are the best guides that I've ever read, and their practice questions are pretty much synonymous with the real test's questions.

edit: This was for the NT4 track exams, I have no idea about the win2k exams, they're supposed to be more difficult.

 

[Tripleshot]

I am taking the win2k track now and am about to finish 215. 210 took 2 weeks. 215 2 1/2 weeks. I am in a new full time 4 month long class offered by my local collage and is available here in Utah throughout the state for $3500 which includes books,vouchers,labs and instruction 9-4 monday thru friday. I will test out on the 7th for 70-210 win2k pro and perhaps the 9th for 70-215 server,providing I pass 210 and have the confidence.

We have 18 computers in the lab and we set up real world problems and solutions and do the exercises in the text we have been afforded.It is the microsoft training kit. We also have a test out program we have access to on campus that is very good.It is propretary software and occupies 24 gig of hardrive space. The campus is almost all Win2K now,which is really kind of nice. The only one in our class to have taken the test(70-210)was our lab instructor. He aced nt4 and recieved 820 out of 1000 on the 70-210 test. The track is not easy,nor is having NT4 cert much use unless you study and learn this new system as hard as a newbie. It is not an easy track. The test is real world scenerios to solve and so are the labs.

I recommend sybex or the offical carriculam I am using(or both) and transcender.You can get alot of help from braindumps on the web,but by all means,get a copy of the server and pro and set up a lab of your own. The books and braindumps alone are a recepie for failure. You need some hands on experience to implament active directory and policy implimentations.

That is my assesment.I am nervous as a whore in church about passing all this but I am committed to succeed. Where I live,I do not think anyone has a win2k cert in all of Southern Utah. The roar of procastination has been deafening,and the succesful test takers are but a whisper,as this is all new territory. The text for the electives hasn't even been published yet,let alone tests made up for it.

Jump in and get wet with the rest of us. There is plenty of room,and lots of demand. Much of the shortcomings of NT4 have been resolved in Win2K and no corporation dare upgrade without having a Win2k MCSE at the helm when the make a change.I truly believe this,and there is anectdotal evidence of this that I've seen on the web and in forums and magazines on networking I read.

Good Luck.

 

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